Enhancing Patient-Centred Practice: A Focus on 4 Principles

The HealthChange® Person-Centred Practice Principles, as a set of 9, clearly identify the elements of patient-centred care and communication. The principles provide guidance for the ‘how to’ of person-centred care. It is important to recognize that these Practice Principles are guiding principles, not hard and fast rules. Providers need to use their skills in tailoring the use of each principle to any particular patient or situation.

The Practice Principles allow providers to give information in a way that is respectful, non-judgmental and relevant to the patient. This makes it more likely they will act on the recommendations given to them.

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