Moving Forward: Implementing Patient-Centered Care in Hospitals
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 1404
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2. The Department of Health Economics, Cattolica University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
Interests: value-based healthcare; health innovations; person-centered care
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Dear Colleagues,
In a world with increasing life expectancy, rising levels of chronic illness, a growing aging population, and austerity in public hospitals, health promotion must increasingly rely on a strategy that benefits all stakeholders, from patients and clinicians to health systems alike. In this Special Issue, I propose a focus on patient-centered care strategy. This strategy is in line with my values of holistically viewing each individual patient as having preferences, expectations, and feelings that should guide clinical care, rather than having it be guided by the economic constraints of hospitals, hegemony of physicians within the hierarchical structure of a hospital, or a disease residing in the body.
Translating this strategy into work processes in hospitals will allow patients to take responsibility for their health, and will yield benefits such as higher adherence, improved clinical outcomes, improved patient experiences, fewer re-hospitalizations, lower rates of health service consumption, lower costs, and higher levels of satisfaction among physicians and nurses together with the realization of their occupational mission.
Given the benefits of this patient-centered strategy, it is no wonder that most public hospitals in the world strive to achieve patient-centered care. Nevertheless, various barriers to its full achievement remain present, and knowledge on how to implement the patient-centered strategy in practice is scant, particularly in the chaotic hospital environments.
Therefore, the aim of this Special issue is to demonstrate how barriers to the implementation of PCC can be removed and how the removal of barriers will result in benefits all stakeholders, patients, clinicians and hospitals, promoting overall health.
In this Special Issue, original research articles; quantitative, qualitative, intervention studies; and reviews are welcome, in particular those that focus on chronic care, treatment, morbidity and mortality, long term outcomes for groups of patients, critical care, emergency, and intensive care in hospitals. I am pleased to invite you to submit your manuscripts for this Special Issue.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Strategies to implement PCC with inpatients;
- The promotion of person-centered care and PCC;
- Integrated PCC;
- Health innovations and health informatics to promote PCC;
- Design thinking in the context of PCC;
- Revising work methods to promote PCC.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Gillie Gabay
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- health promotion
- hospitals
- implementation
- health innovations
- health informatics
- patient-centered care
- person-centered care
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