Understanding patients' beliefs and goals in medicine-taking

Tsoneva, J.; Shaw, J.

Professional Nurse 19(8): 466-468

2004


ISSN/ISBN: 0266-8130
PMID: 15116506
Document Number: 581607
The traditional paternalistic approach to health care ignores the individual needs of patients and results in many of them failing to take up treatment. Concordance, which centres on enabling patients to make informed decisions about all aspects of health care with the support of health professionals, is one approach increasingly being introduced in health-care settings.

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