Patient Centered Medicine

Omur Sayligil

• Publisher: IntechOpen
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9789535129912
• eBook ISBN: 9789535148791
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Patient-centered medicine is not an illness-centered, a physician-centered, or a hospital-centered medicine approach. In this book, it is aimed at presenting an approach to patient-centered medicine from the beginning of life to the end of life. As indicated by W. Osler, "It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has." In our day, if the physicians and healthcare professionals could consider more than the diseased organ and provide healthcare by comforting the patients by respecting their values, beliefs, needs, and preferences; informing them and their relatives at every stage; and comforting the patients physically by controlling the pain and relieving their worries and fears, patients obeying the rules of physicians would become patients with high adaptation and participation to the treatment.

Table of contents

• Patient Centered Medicine
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Patient-Centred Care in Maternity Services
• Chapter 2 Patient-Centered Medicine and Prevention of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
• Chapter 3 Promoting Patient-Centered Care in Chronic Disease
• Chapter 4 Updated Landscape of the Tumor Microenvironment and Targeting Strategies in an Era of Precision Medicine
• Chapter 5 Patient-Centered Medicine and Self-Help Groups in Germany: Self-Help Friendliness as an Approach for Patient Involvement in Healthcare Institutions
• Chapter 6 Holistic Care Philosophy for Patient‐Centered Approaches and Spirituality
• Chapter 7 The Veterans Affairs Patient Aligned Care Team (VA PACT), a New Benchmark for Patient-Centered Medical Home Models: A Review and Discussion
• Chapter 8 Ethical Considerations Related to Narrative Medicine