Patient Centered Care Assignment PDF

Running head: Patient Centered Care
Patient Centred Care
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Contents
Introduction to Patient Centred Care:........................................................................................2
Research Problem:.....................................................................................................................3
PICO Table:...........................................................................................................................3
Search Strategy:.....................................................................................................................3
Importance of the selected articles:........................................................................................4
Literature Review:......................................................................................................................4
Case studies:...........................................................................................................................6
Conclusion:..............................................................................................................................12
References:...............................................................................................................................14

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Introduction to Patient Centred Care:
The 2010 report by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare
defines Patient Cantered Care (PCC) as a new strategy in the planning, providence and
evaluation of care which is based upon a therapeutic and mutually beneficial relation between
patients, their families and healthcare providers and can be applicable to patients from all age
groups and also can be practiced in any healthcare setup (safetyandquality.gov.au, 2018). In
PCC, the specific health needs and the intended healthcare outcomes forms the driving
energy for all the healthcare related decisions and quality assessments. This system allows the
formation of partnerships between the patients and their healthcare providers, and fosters the
providence of clinical care as well as emotional, mental, spiritual and financial support for the
patients (catalyst.nejm.org, 2018; Edvardsson et al., 2017).
PCC involves several dimensions of care such as: respecting the preference and
values of the patient, providing emotional care; improving physical care; providing
information, communication and education given to patients and their families; ensuring
continuity and proper transition of care; foster coordinated care, support the inclusion of
family and friends and improving accessibility to care. The core elements of the PCC
framework has been identified as: a) education and sharing of information and knowledge; b)
family and friend involvement; c) team management and collaboration; d) focusing on
spiritual and non-medical aspects of care; e) respecting the preferences and needs of the
patient; f) uninterrupted access and flow of information (afetyandquality.gov.au, 2018).
Patient Centred Care is also used interchangeable with many other terms like Consumer
Centred Care, Personalized Care, Person Centred Care and Family Oriented Care. All there
terms refers to the same concept of care and support being provided to the patient and their
family (afetyandquality.gov.au, 2018; Liberati et al., 2015; Constand et al., 2014).

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The following study is aimed to understand whether PCC can be helpful to improve
health outcomes among hospital inpatients. The study will analyse three key journal articles
to identify different factors that might help in the improvement of health outcomes among
hospital inpatients, with supporting evidences from various other studies to critically evaluate
the selected articles and to prove/disprove its validity.
Research Problem:
Can PCC help to improve health outcomes among hospital inpatients?
PICO Table:
P(opulation) Hospital Inpatients
I(ntervention) Patient Centred Care
C(omparison) Non Patient Centred Care
O(utcome) Improvement in health outcomes among the
target populations
Search Strategy:
Search for the key journal articles was conducted on Google Scholar. The first search
for a primary research article was done using the keywords “Person Centred Care” AND
“discharge process”. The keywords were selected to understand the effect of PCC on the
discharge process of inpatients, and from the resultant 91,500, a filter on the date of
publishing was used, which reduced the articles to 17,200. For the first key Journal article,
the first result was used, which is a study by Ulin et al., (2016). For the second study, the
keywords “person cantered care” AND “chronic conditions” was used, and filtered for
studies published after 2014, which showed a result of 17,200 studies. The first study by