Challenges and Solutions: Narratives of Patient-Centered Care
Edited by Judy Belle Brown, Tanya Thornton and Moira Stewart, 2011

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Serious Mental Illness: Person-Centrered Approaches
Edited by Abraham Rudnick and David Roe, 2011

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Women-Centered Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth
Edited by Sara G. Shields and Lucy M. Candib, 2010

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Palliative Care: A Patient-Centered Approach
Edited by Geoffrey Mitchell, 2008

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Patient-Centered Prescribing: Seeking Concordance in Practice
By: Jon Dowell, Brian Williams and David Snadden, 2007

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Patient-Centered Medicine:Transforming the Clinical Method (2e)
By Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown, W. Wayne Weston, Ian R. McWhinney, Carol L McWilliam and Thomas , 2003

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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, 2002

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Eating Disorders: a Patient-centered Approach,
By Kathleen M Berg, Dermot J Hurley, James A McSherry and Nancy E Strange, 2002

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Substance Abuse: a Patient-centered Approach
Edited by Michael R Floyd and J Paul Seale, 2002

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: a Patient-centered Approach
By Campbell Murdoch and Harriet Denz-Penhey, 2002

Patient-Centered Medicine: Transforming the Clinical Method

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By Ian R. McWhinney. Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Challenges and Solutions: Narratives of Patient-Centered Care

Edited by Judith Belle Brown, Tanya Thornton and Moira Stewart, 2011

The foundation of patient-centered care is the patient-professional relationship. By exploring both the disease and patients’ unique experiences of illness, health care professionals take into consideration their individual needs as well as their emotional and physical concerns.

Using narrative to describe the experiences of patients and professionals, this book reveals the four interactive components of the patient-centered clinical method: exploring health, disease and illness; understanding the whole person; finding common ground; and enhancing the patient-doctor relationship. The concluding chapters illustrate ways in which all four components interact with and complement each other and can be used in unison to the immeasurable benefit of both patient and professional.

The stimulating narratives are all based on recent developments in the theoretical model of patient-centered clinical care.

This wide-ranging, thought-provoking text is highly relevant to a wide range of health care professionals as well as medical educators and health care students.
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Serious Mental Illness: Person-Centered Approaches

Edited by Abraham Rudnick and David Roe
Series Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown,
and Thomas R. Freeman, 2011

Practical and evidence-based, this unique book is the first comprehensive text focused on person-centered approaches to people with serious mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. It reflects a range of views and findings regarding assessment, treatment, rehabilitation, self-help, policy-making, education and research.

It is highly recommended for all healthcare professionals, students, researchers and educators involved in general practice, psychiatry, nursing, social work, clinical psychology and therapy. Healthcare service providers, and policy makers and shapers, will find the book’s wide-ranging, multi-professional approach enlightening.
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Woman-Centered Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth

Edited by Sara G. Shields and Lucy M. Candib
Series Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown,
and Thomas R. Freeman, 2010

A woman-centered approach to pregnancy and childbirth must be flexible enough to address the variety of women’s experiences around the world, encompassing medical conditions, cultures and family structures. It must also include women who choose not to carry a pregnancy or experience a miscarriage.

This unique woman-centered text explores all these issues and more, providing a vital resource for primary care maternity clinicians and trainees including family physicians, nurse practitioners, women’s health clinicians, midwives, obstetrical nurses and obstetricians. It applies the powerful, proven model of patient-centered care to pregnancy and birth – an expansion beyond previous applications to various chronic illnesses. Women-Centered Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth incorporates dozens of vignettes describing clinicians’ approaches to women-centered maternity care with women and families from a variety of social, cultural, and economic situations facing common or problematic challenges over the course of prenatal care, birth and the postpartum period.
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Palliative Care: A Patient-Centered Approach

Edited by Geoffrey Mitchell
Series Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown,
and Thomas R. Freeman, 2008

As the population ages, more people suffer chronic, ultimately life-limiting diseases and medical professionals need to be equipped to cope with the ever growing pressure of palliative care.

This book gives guidance on how to approach patients with life-limiting illness. While the problems most people present to the doctor appear relatively straightforward, a whole person approach to understanding the complex interaction between the person, their illness and their environment should lead to a more complete consideration of the illness and better health outcomes. For issues of palliative care, such an approach is essential to identify and meet the many needs of desperately ill people.

Palliative Care 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 all medical and healthcare students.
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Patient-Centered Prescribing: Seeking Concordance in Practice

By: Jon Dowell, Brian Williams and David Snadden
Series Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown,
and Thomas R. Freeman, 2007

Half of all prescribed medicines are used in a sub-optimal manner and clinicians struggle to find ways of improving the situation. There is a move towards greater partnership with patients, but concordance (shared decision making between patients and healthcare professionals) is a growing challenge for the profession.

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.

Patient-Centered Prescribing fully considers the very complex nature of the issues at hand, ethical questions, time restrictions, and financial matters, to produce a realistic analysis of the difficulties to be overcome in achieving better practice.

This book is ideal for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and postgraduate students of medicine, pharmacy, and nursing. It is also of great interest to medical educators, particularly those teaching primary care and communication skills to policy makers and managers, and to everyone involved in developing doctor-patient partnerships.
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Patient-Centered Medicine: Transforming the Clinical Method (2e)

By: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown, W Wayne Weston, Ian R McWhinney, Carol L McWilliam and Thomas R Freeman, 2003

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. The book comprehensively covers the six interactive components of the method and learning and teaching the method. It examines and evaluates qualitative and quantitative research on the patient-centered clinical method, including reviews and recent studies.

Changes in the traditional relationship between doctor and patient have emphasized the need for an authoritative, practical and current guide to a more appropriate, and this stimulating work will aid both students and clinicians in community and hospital practice.
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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, 2002

The application of the patient-centered clinical method has received international recognition. This book introduces and fully examines the patient-centered clinical method and illustrates how it can be applied in primary care. It presents case examples of the many problems encountered in patient-doctor interactions and provides ideas for dealing with these more effectively.

It covers a wide range of topics and issues including palliative care, abuse, dying patients, ethical challenges and the role of self-awareness. Many narratives originate from patients’ and family members’ experiences, providing perspectives of great power and value.

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Eating Disorders: a Patient-centered Approach

By Kathleen M Berg, Dermot J Hurley, James A McSherry and Nancy E Strange, 2002

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

Eating Disorders demonstrates how the patient-centered clinical method can assist clinicians to learn how to diagnose this complex psychosocial disorder. It addresses the central concern of the patient and their experience of illness in addition to the biomedical issues of care. It provides patient-centered perspectives as an approach to better understanding of the symptoms of the condition, its origins, consequences, and meanings for the patient, and its management.

Written by a team with extensive experience in the care of the patients with eating disorders, it provides insights for the disciplines most involved with these patients: family medicine, clinical psychology, dietetics, social work and family therapy. It describes the treatment and recovery process and includes accounts by patients, personal memoirs, case reports and qualitative studie

This book will be an important resource for family doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, dietitians, social workers, family therapists and counsellors.

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Substance Abuse: a Patient-centered Approach

Edited by: Michael R Floyd and J Paul Seale, 2002

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

Primary care clinicians are often unfamiliar with new and effective methods for detecting substance abuse problems in their earliest stages, and the majority of patients with substance abuse problems remain undiagnosed.

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. This book describes how to use state-of-the-art screening techniques, and how to understand and motivate patients to decrease or eliminate harmful use of alcohol and drugs. It presents the latest scientific findings and gives examples of using a patient-centered approach, as well as describing specific communication skills, with samples of dialogue illustrating their use in helping substance-abusing patients. This is essential reading for all family doctors, paediatricians, gynaecologists, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, psychologists and all clinicians whose practices include substance-abusing patients. It will also appeal to counsellors, education personnel and all professionals working with substance-abusing individuals.

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Chronic Myofascial Pain: a Patient-centered Approach

Edited by Kirsti Malterud and Steinar Hunskaar, 2002

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

Chronic Myofascial Pain demonstrates how the patient-centered clinical method can assist clinicians to learn how to diagnose this non-malignant pain. It addresses the central concern of the patient and their experience of illness in addition to the issues of care. It provides patient-centered perspectives as an approach to a better understanding of the symptoms of the condition, its origins, consequences and meanings for the patient, and its management.

This book is an important resource for family doctors, physiotherapists, chiropractors, neurologists, rheumatologists, and rehabilitation workers.

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: a Patient-centered Approach

By Campbell Murdoch and Harriet Denz-Penhey, 2002

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

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. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome demonstrates how the patient-centered clinical method can assist clinicians to learn how to diagnose this complex psychological disorder. It addresses the central concern of the patient and their experience of illness in addition to the biomedical issues of care. It provides patient-centered perspectives as an approach to better understanding of the symptoms of the condition, its origins, consequences and meanings for the patient, and its management. This books will be an important resource for family doctors, psychologists, specialists in rheumatology, and all professionals in primary health care teams.

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Research Methods for Primary Care Series

Volume 1 : Primary Care Research: Traditional and Innovative Approaches

Edited by: Peter G. Norton, Moira Stewart, Fred Tudiver, Martin J. Bass, Earl V. Dunn. Sage

Publications, 1991.

The book, Primary Care Research, integrates social science methods into the framework of clinical investigations of the human problems facing primary care professionals today. An international team of contributors discuss both traditional medical/epidemiological methods and nontraditional qualitative methods. Topics addressed include refining the research question, how the question asked dictates the method used, epidemiological standards, primary care research questions, qualitative research standards, case study methods, and combining methods in research. The book is intended to be a guide for not only researchers themselves but also funding agencies who review primary care research.

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Volume 2 : Tools for Primary Care Research

Edited by: Moira Stewart, Fred Tudiver, Martin J. Bass, Earl V. Dunn, Peter G. Norton.

Sage Publications, 1992.

If you are conducting primary care research, then the book Tools for Primary Care Research, is the resource for you. Key introductory chapters describe the three decades of work by a family physician who recognized the importance of observing and questioning, and thoughtfully deliberated the challenges facing primary care researchers. Specific sections examine basic concepts such as identifying research questions and selecting an instrument, techniques such as choosing a sample and creating an original measure, as well as tools for measurement, for data collection, and for analysis. Together, contributors challenge the typical stereotyping of quantitative and qualitative researchers, suggesting the need for each to use available tools constructively. The resources - a multi-disciplinary collection including health research, medicine, anthropology, and psychology - were chosen on the basis of relevance to primary care problems and their unavailability in the traditional medical literature.

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Volume 3 : Doing Qualitative Research

Edited by: Benjamin F. Crabtree and William L. Miller.

Sage Publications, 1992.

Why are certain research designs selected? How do researchers use codebooks to analyze participant observation field notes? What are the best ways to use work processing software in the management of qualitative data? Written by gifted researchers, Doing Qualitative Research discusses essential strategies for doing qualitative research. Each chapter establishes the context in which the specific methods should be chosen, offers a step-by-step description of the method, tell show the quality of the method is assessed, and provides interesting true-to-life examples. Two concluding chapters "pull it all together" by describing a completed research study of physician health promotion activities as well as a study utilizing focus groups to determine a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Special topics include an overview of qualitative research methods, data collection approaches, strategies for analysis, and special cases of examination.

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Volume 4 : Assessing Interventions: Traditional and Innovative Methods

Edited by: Fred Tudiver, Martin J. Bass, Earl V. Dunn, Peter G. Norton, Moira Stewart.

Sage Publications, 1992.

Research methods for primary care often require adaptation of methodologies that were developed for other health care fields. To help meet the distinct needs of researchers in primary care, the book called, Assessing Interventions takes a comprehensive look at specific methods that can be used to assess interventions successfully. This information- packed volume is divided into four parts and covers such issues as assessing interventions in primary care using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. It also explores such topics as principles and approaches to measures of self-report, assessing a smoking cessation intervention, and assessing primary health care delivery. The final section presents a panel discussion that outlines possible future directions; in particular, the challenge for the primary car discipline to define its own foci of research activities.

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Volume 5 : Conducting Research in the Practice Setting

Edited by: Martin J. Bass, Earl V. Dunn, Peter G. Norton, Moira Stewart, Fred Tudiver.

Sage Publications, 1993.

In Conducting Research in the Practice Setting, a multidisciplinary team of contributors representing such fields as family medicine, nursing, social work, epidemiology, and anthropology identify the methods and elements necessary for conducting successful research in the primary care setting. The volume first concentrates on such general issues of primary care research as the ethics of conducting research with human subjects. Next, the contributors examine practical questions such as combining clinical care and research, recruiting patients, maximizing use of the office computer, and identifying the needs of the surrounding community. Collaborations - a topic of increasing importance - between nurse and physician, university and community, and industry and clinician are explored. Special settings relevant to primary care are also discussed. For example, such settings as rural native communities, the homeless, and long-term care are addressed in terms of the challenges they present. The appendix includes a checklist for conducting research in the practice setting.

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Volume 6 : Disseminating Research / Changing Practice

Edited by: Earl V. Dunn, Peter G. Norton, Moira Stewart, Fred Tudiver, Martin J. Bass.

Sage Publications, 1993.

ISBN 0-8039-5705-x

Academic and professional researchers in the health and medical sciences recognize the task of disseminating information as equal to that of obtaining it; the contributors to this absorbing volume address this problem by offering specific, detailed solutions. Following a broad survey of existing methodologies, the volume advances the implementation model that serves as the basis for the succeeding works. These exceptional contributors examine not only various means by which information may be shared, but at what stages in the research process (i.e. before or after peer review?) -and with whom. In addition, the culminating discussion of media involvement in the dissemination process provides both valuable insights and practical suggestions. Upholding the tradition of quality and worth established by earlier works in this series, Disseminating Research/ Changing Practice will prove indispensable to researchers and practitioners in the field of primary care.

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Patient-Centered Medicine: Transforming the Clinical Method

Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown, W. Wayne Weston, Ian R. McWhinney, Carol L. McWilliam, and Thomas R. Freeman.

Sage Publications, 1995.

In Patient-Centered Medicine, the authors present a six-component model to assist health practitioners in expanding and strengthening their relationships with patients. Thoughtful discussions and case studies present topics as diverse as conceptualizations of ill health, consideration of the patient as an individual, the establishment of goals and cooperative strategy between physician and patient, and the realistic allocation of time, energy and other resources of the health care provider. Emphasizing a whole person philosophy, the work encourages physicians to surpass treatment based strictly on a one-dimensional, biomedical assessment of their patients- and achieve greater results. Professionals and advanced students in all health care fields will appreciate this illuminating and provocative volume.

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