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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 7/2014

01-07-2014 | Comment

New Roles and Rules for Patient-Centered Care

Author: Michael L. Millenson, BA

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 7/2014

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“Patient-centered care” was anointed one of six aims for US health care in a 2001 Institute of Medicine report that simultaneously unfurled a long list of its defining traits. The term encompassed “qualities of compassion, empathy and responsiveness to the needs, values and expressed preferences of the individual patient” while addressing “technical care and interpersonal interactions” within “a healing relationship.”1
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Metadata
Title
New Roles and Rules for Patient-Centered Care
Author
Michael L. Millenson, BA
Publication date
01-07-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 7/2014
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-014-2788-y

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