Research Catalog

Title

Patient-centered medicine : transforming the clinical method / Moira Stewart [and others].

Publication

Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

Stewart, Moira.

Description

xxiv, 267 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Delivery of Health Care
• Medical personnel and patient
• Medicine > Philosophy
• Patient Participation
• Patient Satisfaction
• Physician-Patient Relations
• Quality of Health Care

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Joseph H. Levenstein -- Introduction / Moira Stewart and W. Wayne Weston -- 1. Why We Need a New Clinical Method / Ian R. McWhinney -- 2. Overview of the Patient-Centered Clinical Method / W. Wayne Weston and Judith Belle Brown -- 3. The First Component: Exploring Both the Disease and the Illness Experience / Judith Belle Brown, W. Wayne Weston and Moira Stewart. Being Understood: Case Illustrating Component 1 / Judith Belle Brown, W. Wayne Weston and Moira Stewart -- 4. The Second Component: Understanding the Whole Person / Judith Belle Brown and W. Wayne Weston. Lost Dreams: Case Illustrating Component 2 / Judith Belle Brown -- 5. The Third Component: Finding Common Ground / Judith Belle Brown, W. Wayne Weston and Moira Stewart. Breaking the Habit Is Hard to Do: Case Illustrating Component 3 / Martin J. Bass and Judith Belle Brown -- 6. The Fourth Component: Incorporating Prevention and Health Promotion / Carol L. McWilliam and Thomas R. Freeman.
• "An Ounce of Prevention... A Pound of Cure": First Case Illustrating Component 4 / Thomas R. Freeman, Moira Stewart and Judith Belle Brown. Choices and Chances - Whose Responsibility? Second Case Illustrating Component 4 / Carol L. McWilliam and Judith Belle Brown -- 7. The Fifth Component: Enhancing the Patient-Doctor Relationship / Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown and Ian R. McWhinney. Control and Reassurance: Case Illustrating Component 5 / Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown and W. Wayne Weston -- 8. The Sixth Component: Being Realistic / Judith Belle Brown, Carol L. McWilliam and W. Wayne Weston. "Show Me the Way to Go Home": Case Illustrating Component 6 / Carol L. McWilliam, Judith Belle Brown and John Yaphe -- 9. Teaching the Patient-Centered Method: The Human Dimensions of Medical Education / W. Wayne Weston and Judith Belle Brown -- 10. Dealing With Common Difficulties in Learning and Teaching the Patient-Centered Method / W. Wayne Weston and Judith Belle Brown --
• 11. Teaching the Patient-Centered Method: Instructional Methods / W. Wayne Weston and Judith Belle Brown -- 12. Teaching the Patient-Centered Method: Practical Tips / W. Wayne Weston and Judith Belle Brown -- 13. The Case Report as a Teaching Tool for Patient-Centered Communication / Thomas R. Freeman -- 14. Studies of Health Outcomes and Patient-Centered Communication / Moira Stewart -- 15. Methods of Scoring Patient-Centeredness / Moira Stewart -- 16. Qualitative Approaches That Illuminate Patient-Centered Care / Carol L. McWilliam -- 17. Patient-Doctor Relationships Over Time / Moira Stewart -- Conclusions / Moira Stewart.

ISBN

• 0803956886 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0803956894 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

94043063

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries