Patient Advocacy for Health Care Quality: Strategies for Achieving Patient-Centered Care: Strategies for Achieving Patient-Centered CareInstructor Resources: PowerPoints, Sample Syllabus, ReadingsPatient Advocacy for Health Care Quality specifically examines not just what the problems are in healthcare quality but how advocacy – by professionals and lay-people from within and from outside health systems – can help ensure that best practices get adopted.In highly readable prose this text blends many concrete examples, real-life vignettes, and up-to-date research literature. An emphasis on conceptual frameworks, debates, and ethical issues within the field makes the text appealing to graduate-level learners. Authored by real life advocates working in the field, this book is a window into the realities of advocating in many different roles (as a physician, nurse or public health educator; as a hospital administrator; as a parent; as a lobbyist; as the head of a non-profit organization, as a researcher, etc.).Click here to view a complete list of contributors. © 2008 | 614 pages |
Contents
UNDERSTANDING WHAT PATIENTS ARE DOING NOW AND WHAT PROVIDERS CAN DO TO SUPPORT THEM | 59 |
IMPROVING PROVIDERS ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE AND CREATE RELATIONSHIPS | 151 |
TRANSFORMING HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL SCHOOL CULTURE TO SUPPORT PATIENT AND FAMILYCENTERED CARE | 261 |
MAKING CONSUMERS VOICE HEARD IN POLICY AND LAW | 359 |
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