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Patient-Centred Health Care

Achieving Co-ordination, Communication and Innovation

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare (OBHC)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Mary A. Keating, Aoife M. McDermott, Kathleen Montgomery
      Pages 1-9
  3. Conceptions and Cultures of Patient-Centred Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. The Continuum of Resident-Centred Care in US Nursing Homes

      • Nicholas G. Castle, Jamie C. Ferguson-Rome
      Pages 25-41
    3. The Place of Patient-Centred Care in Medical Professional Culture: A Qualitative Study

      • Wendy Lipworth, Miles Little, Jill Gordon, Pippa Markham, Ian Kerridge
      Pages 53-62
  4. Communication in Patient-Centred Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
    2. Rejections of Treatment Recommendations through Humour

      • Andrea C. Schöpf, Gillian S. Martin, Mary A. Keating
      Pages 145-157
    3. An Expanded Shared Decision-Making Model for Interprofessional Settings

      • Mirjam Koerner, Anne-Kathrin Steger, Heike Ehrhardt, Juergen Bengel
      Pages 158-170
  5. Innovations in Patient-Centred Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
    2. Shared Decision-Making and Decision Aid Implementation: Stakeholder Views

      • Anne D. Renz, Carolyn A. Watts, Douglas A. Conrad
      Pages 186-196

About this book

There are four core themes developed in this book which deal with critical issues, models, theories and frameworks. These expound understandings of patient centred care and the processes, practices and behaviours supporting its attainment: conceptions and cultures of patient-centred care, coordination, communication, innovation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Business, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

    Mary A. Keating

  • Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

    Aoife M. McDermott

  • School of Business Administration, University of California, Riverside, USA

    Kathleen Montgomery

About the editors

Mary A. Keating is Associate Professor of Human Resource Management at the School of Business in Trinity College, Ireland. Her research interests include cross-cultural management and human resource strategy in healthcare. She is the Irish coordinator for the GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness) project.

Aoife McDermott is Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Cardiff Business School, UK. Her research interests concern the role of people management and leadership in health service organization, delivery, improvement and policy implementation. With colleagues, her current work is exploring cross-national differences in quality and safety practices in hospitals.

Kathleen Montgomery is Edward A. Dickson Emerita Professor at University of California, USA, and Honorary Associate of the Centre for University of Sydney, Australia. She received her PhD in Sociology from New York University, USA. Her research interests include issues of trust and integrity within professional-organizational relationships and patient-provider encounters.

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