title: Patient-focused care: is it for your hospital?
abstract: Advocates of Patient-Focused Care (PFC) claim that a win-win resolution to the cost/quality dilemma can be achieved by placing the patient's concerns at the center of planning. With the patient as the central focus, a whole new paradigm of care emerges which links all components of systems redesign work with a common, defining purpose. Before embarking on such a change effort, planners should carefully examine PFC assumptions for relevance to their specific environment.
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Townsend
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D004282:Documentation; D015285:Hospital-Patient Relations; D006801:Humans; D009746:Nursing, Team; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*