کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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3814622 | 1246026 | 2006 | 6 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
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ObjectivePatient-centeredness is regarded as an important feature of high quality patient care, but little effort has been devoted to grounding patient-centeredness as an explicitly moral concept. We sought to describe the moral commitments that underlie patient-centered care.MethodsWe analyzed the key ideas that are commonly described in the literature on patient-centeredness in the context of three major schools of ethical thought.ResultsConsequentialist moral theories focus on the positive outcomes of providing patient-centered care. Deontological theories emphasize how patient-centered care reflects the ethical norms inherent in medicine, such as respect for persons and shared decision-making. Virtue-based theories highlight the importance of developing patient-centered attitudes and traits, which in turn influence physicians’ behaviors toward their patients.ConclusionDifferent ethical theories concentrate on different features of patient-centered care, but all can agree that patient-centeredness is morally valuable.Practice implicationsIn order to sustain patient-centeredness as a moral concept, practitioners and students ought to examine these ideas to determine what their own personal reasons are for or against adopting a patient-centered approach.
Journal: Patient Education and Counseling - Volume 62, Issue 2, August 2006, Pages 271–276