title: Research on person-centred clinical care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To give a selective review of empirical studies on person-centred clinical care, in particular concerning communication patterns between patients and providers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive and selective review of relevant literature.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Person-centred clinical care may have positive effects on patient satisfaction, patient adherence, health care utilization, malpractice litigation and health outcome. Person-centred communication skills may be promoted by way of communication skills training.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The concept of person-centred care is rare in the empirical literature. Future research should operationalize the concept and design studies of the impact of patient-centred clinical care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioural Science, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. rnstein.finset@basalmed.uio.no
authors.forename: Arnstein
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Finset
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D018802:Patient-Centered Care