title: Person-centered care--ready for prime time.
abstract: Long-term diseases are today the leading cause of mortality worldwide and are estimated to be the leading cause of disability by 2020. Person-centered care (PCC) has been shown to advance concordance between care provider and patient on treatment plans, improve health outcomes and increase patient satisfaction. Yet, despite these and other documented benefits, there are a variety of significant challenges to putting PCC into clinical practice. Although care providers today broadly acknowledge PCC to be an important part of care, in our experience we must establish routines that initiate, integrate, and safeguard PCC in daily clinical practice to ensure that PCC is systematically and consistently practiced, i.e. not just when we feel we have time for it. In this paper, we propose a few simple routines to facilitate and safeguard the transition to PCC. We believe that if conscientiously and systematically applied, they will help to make PCC the focus and mainstay of care in long-term illness.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Department of Emergency and Cardiovascular Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Box 457, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden. Inger.Ekman@gu.se
authors.forename: Inger
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ekman
authors.forename: Karl
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Swedberg
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Taft
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lindseth
authors.forename: Astrid
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Norberg
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brink
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Carlsson
authors.forename: Synneve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dahlin-Ivanoff
authors.forename: Inga-Lill
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Johansson
authors.forename: Karin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kjellgren
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lidén
authors.forename: Joakim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Öhlén
authors.forename: Lars-Eric
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Olsson
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rosén
authors.forename: Martin
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authors.lastname: Rydmark
authors.forename: Katharina Stibrant
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Sunnerhagen
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010347:Patient Care Planning