The development and selection of optimal outcome measures is increasingly recognized as
a key component of evidence-based medicine, particularly the need for the development of …

Purpose Trust is important for patients and may be used as an indicator and potential
'marker'for how patients evaluate the quality of health care. The review aimed to classify the …

The Patient-Centered Clinical Method (PCCM) has been a core tenet of the practice and
teaching of medicine since the first edition of Patient-Centered Medicine-Transforming the …

Sarah Nettleton's The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text,
popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the …

A significant proportion of symptoms are medically unexplained. People experience illness
but no pathological basis for the symptoms can be discerned by the medical profession …

Nesta 3ª edição de Medicina centrada na pessoa, os autores redefinem e consolidam os
elementos que compõem o método clínico centrado na pessoa. Além disso, contemplam de …

Background and purpose Functional neurological disorder (FND) is common, and symptoms
can be severe. There have been no international large‐scale studies of patient experiences …

Background Many patients consult their GP because they experience bodily symptoms. In a
substantial proportion of cases, the clinical picture does not meet the existing diagnostic …

In 2009, I was attending yet another conference, which had student engagement as a major
theme, yet did not contain many presentations that were rooted in a conceptual basis on the …

Objective To gain a deeper understanding of challenges faced by GPs when managing
patients with MUS. Methods We used meta-ethnography to synthesize qualitative studies on …