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At a time of unprecedented demand on health services and with providers under immense pressure to deliver high-quality services 7 days a week, while at the same time finding substantial cost savings, there is a real danger of care standards and safety being compromised and patients being left feeling that the NHS has failed them.
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Recognising and supporting self in dementia: a new way to facilitate a person-centred approach to dementia care [PDF]
This paper reports findings from a three-year study which integrated Kitwood’s (1997) person-centred and Sabat’s (2001) selfhood approaches in the design, fieldwork and analysis of a multi-method observational study that explored the social worlds of 14 ...
Kelly, Fiona
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Minimal important differences for fatigue patient reported outcome measures—a systematic review
Background Fatigue is the most frequent symptom reported by patients with chronic illnesses. As a subjective experience, fatigue is commonly assessed with patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs).
Åsa Nordin +3 more
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This study aims to identify the needs and wishes of childhood cancer long-term survivors for digitally mediated emotional peer support. Survivors of childhood cancer (six men, seven women) aged 19–33, participated in semi-structured interviews (November ...
Stefan Nilsson +2 more
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Background Increasing healthcare costs need to be contained in order to maintain equality of access to care for all EU citizens. A cross‐disciplinary consortium of experts was supported by the EU FP7 research programme, to produce a roadmap on cost ...
Karl Swedberg +21 more
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Person-centred care literature review [PDF]
The review was primarily designed to help inform future work of the ihub’s Person-centred Design and Improvement Team which help people working in health and social care in Scotland to take a person-centred approach to improving the services they deliver.
Miller, Emma
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Background Outcomes-based policy and administration of public services present a compelling argument for the value of outcomes data. However, there are a number of challenges inherent in collecting these data from people who are unable to complete a ...
James Caiels +4 more
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Developing a proxy version of the Adult social care outcome toolkit (ASCOT)
Background Social care-related quality of life is a key outcome indicator used in the evaluation of social care interventions and policy. It is not, however, always possible to collect quality of life data by self-report even with adaptations for people ...
Stacey Rand +3 more
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Health-economic evaluations of person-centred care [PDF]
Person-centred care aims at making the individual partake in the healthcare decisionmaking and at supporting individual health management. This stands in contrast to usual care, which typically has more focus on the particular disease at hand, rather ...
Pirhonen, Laura
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Background The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT-SCT4) is a multi-attribute utility index designed for the evaluation of long-term social care services. The measure comprises eight attributes that capture aspects of social care-related quality of
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