Behaviorally defined patient-centered communication--a narrative review of the literature.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Touted by some as reflecting a better medical model and cited by the influential IOM report in 2000 as one of the six domains of quality care, patient-centered medicine has yet to fully establish its scientific attributes or to become mainstream. One proposed reason is failure to behaviorally define what the term 'patient-centered' actually means.

Objectives

(1) To identify patient-centered articles among all reported randomized controlled trials (RCT); (2) to identify those with specific behaviorally defined interventions; (3) to identify commonalities among the behavioral definitions; and (4) to evaluate the relationship of the well-defined RCTs to patient outcomes.

Data sources

Medline from April 2010 to 1975. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA, PARTICIPANTS, AND INTE

SUBMITTER: Smith RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3019332 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature