Vol 1, No 4 (2011)

December

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Table of Contents

Editorial

The patient, the illness, the doctor, the decision: negotiating a ‘new way’ through person-centered medicine
Andrew Miles, Juan E. Mezzich
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637-640

Letters

Keeping our feet firmly on the ground: a reply to Eyal Shahar
James Penston
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839-840
An unattractive hypothesis – RCTs’ descent to non-science
Clifford G Miller
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841-842
The ‘last word’
Eyal Shahar
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843

Person-centered care and evidence based medicine

What can philosophy tell us about Evidence-Based Medicine? An assessment of Jeremy Howick’sThe Philosophy of Evidence-based Medicine
Alexander Bird
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642-648
Another argument for values-based medicine
Miles Little, Wendy Lipworth, Jill Gordon, Pippa Markham
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649-656
Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Practice Guidelines
Lisa Cosgrove, Allen Shaughnessy
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668-674
Efforts to close the evidence-practice gap in the management of cardiovascular risk factors in general practice: strategic or haphazard?
Mariko Carey, Sze Yoong, Rob Sanson-Fisher, Chris Paul, Kerry Inder, Meredith Makeham
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660-667
The perils of proxy outcomes in evidence-based medicice: the case of recombinant Factor VIIa
Wendy Lipworth, Miles Little, Ian Kerridge
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657-659

Person-centered care and chronic disease

A preliminary evaluation of a 6 week Anxiety Management Group for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Nenna Ndukwe
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691-695
Patients with chronic heart failure who plan their own self- care education decrease their outpatient visits
Monica Rydell Karlsson, Magnus Edner, Ewa Billing, Anna Kiessling, Peter Henriksson
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705-718
Patient-oriented outcome measurement in chronic diseases: Conceptual basis and empirical evidence
Erik Farin, Michaela Nagl
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696-704
Evaluating an asthma disease management program: examining health care utilization with regard to persistent asthma
Chun-Mei Lin, Ming-Chin Yang, Chinho Lin
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683-690
A successful hospital-based disease management program to reduce admissions among patients with multiple chronic illnesses
Ariel Linden, Marco Bonollo, Kaylene Fiddes
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675-682
Medication regimen complexity and the care of the chronically ill patient
Jonathan Fuller, Ross Edward Grant Upshur
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719-725

Person-centered mental health

Psychotherapy Clinical trials published in Brazilian journals: a qualitative systematic review of the literature
Marina Bento Gastaud, Jaqueline Salvador, Márcia Izabel Pettenon, Rosemeri Pedroso, Tahiana Andreazza, Valdeci Vaz, Claudio Laks Eizirik, Keila Ceresér, Neusa Sica Da Rocha
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726-732
Validity of a scale for consumer evaluation of mental health service delivery
Grenville Rose, Ivan Beale, John Malone, Stephen Kinkead, Judi Higgin
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733-740
Postmodernism,Psychiatry, and the Person:A Logical Inconsistency?
Charles Pickles
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741-745

Person-centered medicine and patient satisfaction

A pattern approach to analysing patients’ satisfaction and quality of care perceptions in hospital
Vigdis Abrahamsen Grøndahl, Bodil Wilde-Larsson, Marie Louise Hall-Lord, Ingela Karlsson
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766-775
Patient empowerment as a patient-centered strategy to increase patient satisfaction
Eman Salman Taie
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746-755
Patients’ complaints about negative interactions with health professionals
Eva Jangland, Jan Larsson, Maria Carlsson, Lena Gunningberg
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756-765

Person-centered care: general aspects

Person-Centered Health
Gary Christopherson
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794-799
Solo mother by donor – the plan B of motherhood. A perspective on person-centered reproductive medicine
Marie Engholm Frederiksen, Ulla Christensen, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Lone Schmidt
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800-807
Compassionate care enhancement: benefits and outcomes
Stephen G Post
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808-813
It’s good to be good: 2011 fifth annual scientific report on health, happiness and helping others
Stephen G Post
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814-829
Successful implementation of an LGBTQI health elective into a medical school curriculum: a tool to increase culturally-sensitive care in person-centered medicine
Julie Scott Taylor, Andrea Lach Dean, Jason Lambrese, Richard Dollase, Edward Feller
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830-838

Clinical and Electronic Communication

The Israeli Patient-Doctor-Computer communication study: an educational intervention pilot report and its implications for person-centered medicine
Shmuel Reis, Hilla Cohen-Tamir, Leora Eger-Dreyfuss, Orit Eisenburg, Aviv Shachak, Dalia Hasson-Gilad, Amitai Ziv
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776-781
Who are we reaching through the patient portal: engaging the already engaged?
Judith Hoffman Hibbard, Jessica Greene
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788-793
Problems of transparent medical risk communication using the example of mammography screening
Christof Breitsameter
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782-787