Patient education and counseling
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To explore the domain of physician-reported respect for individual patients by investigating the following questions: How variable is physician-reported respect for patients? What patient characteristics are associated with greater physician-reported respect? Do patients accurately perceive levels of physician respect? Are there specific communication behaviors associated with physician-reported respect for patients? ⋯ Physician respectful attitudes may be important to target in improving communication with patients.
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To describe the meaning of active participation from the patient's perspective. ⋯ By understanding the nature of and relationships between the thematic elements in patients' illness narratives, practitioners will be able to better inform their negotiations with patients regarding participation in healthcare.
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Patient-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. ⋯ In 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.