Conceptualizing patient-centered care for substance use disorder treatment: findings from a systematic scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite ongoing efforts aimed to improve treatment engagement for people with substance-related disorders, evidence shows modest rates of utilization as well as client-perceived barriers to care. Patient-centered care (PCC) is one widely recognized approach that has been recommended as an evidence-based practice to improve the quality of substance use disorder treatment. PCC includes four core principles: a holistic and individualized focus to care, shared decision-making and enhanced therapeutic alliance.

Aims

This scoping review aimed to explore which PCC principles have been described and how they have defined and measured among people with substance-related disorders.

Methods

Following the iterative stages of the Arksey and O'Malley scoping review metho

SUBMITTER: Marchand K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6739978 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature