Patient-Centered Care with Chronic Diseases

Dear Colleagues,

This Nursing Reports Special Issue will focus on patient-centered care with chronic diseases. Systematic/scoping/narrative reviews or protocol of reviews related to these issues are welcome. One of the primary focuses is to identify the stakeholders in a health care model for Patient Centered Care on different chronic diseases. These models promote an improving satisfaction for patients, of the person’s needs, with a notably increased adherence to the treatment with patient-centered communication. In many pathologies, regarding evaluations, the diagnostic evaluation of person-centered data collection instruments, such as focus groups or semi-structured interviews with different care stakeholders, including patients, health professionals, and family members, is intended to understand the concerns and perceptions of patients. A patient-centered care model has been widely applied in several areas of clinical practice, with very positive results in the quality of care and patient satisfaction, emphasizing the individual needs of each one, and directing care in this same direction. 

This issue aimed to demonstrated with our studies, that it's necessary to put the client in the center of care, to increase better results and health related quality of life in general. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: 

• Investigation based on practice and personalized care approaches in healthcare;
• Patient-centered care models in many chronic diseases or other condition with long-term care;
• Studies investigating promotion of care;
• Nurse-led care;
• Intervention for the management of diseases;
• New approaches of patient-centered care;
• PROMs in chronic diseases.

Prof. Dr. Armando de Mendoça Raimundo
Prof. Dr. Maria Otília Brites Zangão
Guest Editors
Cláudia Amaro dos Santos
Guest Editor Assistant

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