Patient-centred care
Framing
- Patient-centred care places the individual patient's values, preferences, and background context at the centre of clinical decision-making, rather than applying a uniform, disease-focused approach regardless of the specific patient - this includes actively considering how a patient's cultural, social, and personal background shapes both their health needs and their engagement with proposed care
- Genuinely patient-centred care requires more than simply informing the patient of a treatment plan - it requires actively incorporating their values and circumstances into forming that plan in the first place
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