Patient-Centered Care series

Series Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown and Thomas R Freeman

PATIENT-CENTRED PRESCRIBING
seeking concordance in practice
Jon Dowell, Brian Williams and David Snadden

This practical book offers numerous real life case studies to demonstrate the way the patient-centered model, combined with other behavioural models, can result in a logical approach to prescribing for difficult clients, including ‘non-compliant’ and other challenging patients.

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CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS IN PATIENT-CENTERED CARE
a case book
Edited by Judith Belle Brown, Moira Stewart and W. Wayne Weston

This book introduces and fully examines the patient-centered clinical method and illustrates how it can be applied in primary care.

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EATING DISORDERS: a patient-centered approach
Kathleen M Berg, Dermot J Hurley, James A McSherry and Nancy E Strange

Eating Disorders demonstrates how the patient-centered clinical method can assist clinicians to learn how to diagnose this complex psychosocial disorder.

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CHRONIC MYOFASCIAL PAIN: a patient-centered approach
Edited by Kirsti Malterud and Steinar Hunskaar

Chronic Myofascial Pain demonstrates how the patient-centered clinical method can assist clinicians to learn how to diagnose this non-malignant pain.  This book addresses the central concern of the patient and their experience of illness in addition to the issues of care.

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SUBSTANCE ABUSE: a patient-centered approach
Edited by Michael R Floyd and J Paul Seale

Substance Abuse is written by primary care clinicians and focused to meet the needs of primary care providers, demonstrating how the patient-centered clinical method can assist clinicians in learning how to diagnose this complex psychosocial disorder.

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CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME: a patient-centered approach
Campbell Murdoch and Harriet Denz-Penhey

Chronic fatigue syndrome is an illness that affects millions of people all over the world and has caused enormous controversy wherever people have been affected. This book examines the validity of chronic fatigue syndrome and explores the problems faced in addressing this illness.

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PATIENT-CENTERED MEDICINE: transforming the clinical method
Second Edition
Moira Stewart, Judith Belle-Brown, W. Wayne Weston, Ian R McWhinney, Carol L McWilliam and Thomas Freeman

This book fully describes and explains the patient-centered model of medicine, providing the foundation to the Patient-Centered Care series.  In the years since the first edition was published, the clinical method has evolved, and this new edition brings the reader fully up to date.

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PALIIATIVE CARE: a patient-centered approach
Edited by Geoffrey Mitchell

This book offers a fresh look at the management of patients. With international, evidence-based contributions, the book suggests practical and challenging ways to care for the dying. It is ideal for all healthcare professionals working in palliative care, General Practitioners and medicine and healthcare students.

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