Peering inside the black box of patient-centered care.
Peering inside the black box of patient-centered care.
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窥探以患者为中心的护理的黑匣子。
DOI:
10.1161/circoutcomes.114.001038
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2014
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Naik,AanandD
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Naik,AanandD
348 Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes May 2014 patients whether their physician is providing guidelines-concordant care for heart failure. In contrast, using standardized measures to gather subjective ratings of specific communication with healthcare providers during clinical encounters will often predict health outcomes related to those encounters. 11 For example, patient perceptions that their doctors gave them choices related to their diabetes mellitus care are likely to predict improved self-care behaviors and blood pressure control. 9 Subjective measures of patient centeredness also include those designed to capture patients’ experiences of care. 11 Patient experiences include emotions, bodily feelings, social interactions, and judgments associated with specific encounters, interactions, and procedures comprising health care. 11 Accounts of patient experiences suffer from availability bias, an empirical finding that cognitions that come readily to mind have a disproportionate influence on our normative judgments and decision making. 12 Given this bias, subjective reports of patient experiences may not be completely consistent with objective facts or they may overemphasize a particular aspect of the healthcare experience. For example, a recent qualitative study of patients’ experiences with upper endoscopy found that satisfaction with the procedure centered on a few salient memories of the periprocedure experience (eg, time in waiting room, discomfort associated with the procedure, feeling respected by procedure staff, and trust in physician postprocedure). 13 These are the memories that come to define a healthcare experience and shape a patient’s judgment of the care received; therefore, they influence subsequent health behaviors and are worth measuring despite their flaws. 13, 14 The novel study by Ottenberg et al, 15 also in this issue of