Patient Centered Care (PCC)

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It can be argued that the largest yet most neglected health care personnel is patient. It doesn’t matter if the care is a cutting edge or technology advanced if it doesn’t take the patients goals and views into account. The phrase ‘Patient Centered Care (PCC)’ is in vogue, but its meaning is poorly understood. PCC is providing care that is respectful of, and responsive to individual patient’s preference, needs and ensuring that patient’s values guide all clinical diagnosis.
The PCC is a promising model that aims to strengthen the health care system. Leaders and other health care providers should work together to improve the involvement of patients, families and the caregivers in this health care system. Hence it provides a chance to the patient to involve in their own care, increasing the quality of life, clinical outcomes and patients’ satisfaction while reducing the health care costs. This enabled PCC to become a major goal for many HCO’s. Despite the evidence of its importance, PCC falls short of achieving it in nation’s health care. Many HCO’S think about the kind of demands they have to make on patients and whether patients are disproportionally able to meet the needs that are …show more content…

They should provide a vast variety of supporting technology like Health care information technology (HIT), email conversations, portal web facilities to ensure a good quality relation between the physicians and the patients. Educating the care givers to value human beings over technology will help the patients to be more responsive. HCO’s should be designed and nurtured with an environment in which their work force is treated with dignity and are given enough space for new emerging ideas. It should become an important tool in leaders’ toolbox. Health care providers should use payment strategies of patients and families in patient care and quality improvement

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