Patient-Centred Medicine in Transition
The Heart of the Matter
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Beschreibung
The recent history of medicine is one of great biological and technological advances. Diagnoses are being made earlier, diseases caught sooner, patients living longer. And yet there is one area that lags behind the rest of the field: despite the efforts of graduate courses and training manuals, too many doctors still find communication a challenge.
In Patient-Centered Medicine in Transition, the focus is not on skills or tools but on context to improve communication not only with patients, but between colleagues, with management, and within and across teams. Rigorous and readable, this timely manifesto presents new models of team process in patient-centered care, emphasizing their value in reducing harmful medical errors and improving patient care, safety, and outcomes.
Further, the author provides significant research evidence supporting democratic approaches to communication in medicine while also addressing vital questions of ethics, empathy, gender dynamics, and physician self-care. Included in the coverage:
- The epidemic of communication hypocompetence.
- Patient-centeredness without a center.
- How doctors think can be judged from how they listen and speak.
- Working and learning in teams in the new era of health care.
- Blunting Occam's Razor: team process and complexity theory.
- Building a collaborative community in medical education research.
Patient-Centered Medicine in Transition offers a bold new reconceptualization of an important topic and a roadmap to new frontiers in practice to be read and discussed by researchers and practitioners in medical education.
This book challenges functional models for more aesthetic and ethical models, where communication is grounded in values systems of cultures. Here, communication is treated as a distributed phenomenon involving networks of persons, activities and artifacts, and extends beyond doctor-patient relationships to working in and across teams around patients. The purpose of the book is to stimulate thinking about how patient care and safety may be improved through a focus upon the ‘non-technical’ work of doctors – interpersonal communication, teamwork and situation awareness in teams. The focus is then not on the personality of the doctor, but on the dynamics of relationships which form doctors’ multiple identities.
Challenges all previous models of communication between patients and doctors Explains how the non-technical focus of communication can improve patient outcomes and increase patient safety Focuses on the dynamics of the doctor/patient relationship Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Alan Bleakley
Themen in »Patient-Centred Medicine in Transition«
Communication and postiive patient healthhcare outcomes Communication skills and medical education Doctor identities and communication skills Doctor patient communication Doctor patient relationship Interpersonal communication and medical education
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From the book reviews:
Selected as “Highly Commended” at BMA Medical Book Awards for 2014.
“‘This book usefully brings together the history, development and important tenets of patient-centred medicine, making it an almost unique reference for this important area of change in how medicine is delivered. … brings together a wealth of evidence and information that may well be pivotal in both changing the way we educate our future health professionals, particularly doctors, but also deliver healthcare.’” (BMA Medical Book Awards, September, 2014)
“The book draws on psychology, sociology, the arts, humanities, feminism, linguistics and philosophy. … This is a book aimed mainly at the serious student of communication – gold dust if you are doing a PhD or a master’s in professional practice. It would also sit well on the shelf of the front line clinician seeking to understand the numerous situations in clinical practice that are bedevilled by conflict, crossed wires, unvoiced anxieties and other communication failures.” (Trish Greenhalgh, Nursing Standard, Vol. 29 (20), January, 2015)
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