Special Issue “Research on Patient-Centered Care”

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section “Global Health“.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2023.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Sarah Bigi
Guest Editor
Department of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, 20123 Milan, Italy
Interests: healthcare communication; medical argumentation; discourse analysis; shared decision making
Dr. Maria Grazia Rossi
Guest Editor
Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA), Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Nova University of Lisbon, 1099-032 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: patient-provider communication; medical argumentation; metaphors; misunderstandings & problems of understanding; reasoning & emotions

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Patient-centered care is the practice of caring for patients (and their families) in ways that are meaningful and valuable to the individual patient. Patient-centered care (PCC) was developed in response to the acknowledged limitations of the biomedical tradition and is now the primary model of care in many countries. The goal of PCC is the implementation of procedures and relational styles that integrate patients’ perspectives and preferences in the process of care. In this way, patients are encouraged to manage their own health and quality of life, thus improving their physical and social well-being and satisfaction with care. However, PCC also increases personal and financial costs, excludes certain groups, and diminishes the value of the staff as autonomous persons, which in turn might result in poor working conditions and high turnover rates. In this respect, PCC may seem to challenge sustainability; at the same time, it seems to integrate some of the ingredients that might help to move in the direction of a value-based healthcare. At a practical level, it may turn out to be sometimes difficult to decide which behavior is more ‘patient-centered’ than others. 

The goal of this Special Issue is to explore the newest research on PCC in order to highlight both strong and weak aspects of this paradigm of care. We welcome papers on PCC provided by researchers from around the world and from diverse disciplines.

Dr. Sarah Bigi
Dr. Maria Grazia Rossi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

• patient-centered care
• decision making
• value-based healthcare
• patient satisfaction
• provider–patient relations
• measurement
• communication
• public health

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.