The irony was almost palpable. On the same day that Canada's doctors launched
themselves on a trajectory that some believe is motivated by self-interest and may lead to …

Canada's universal healthcare program, medicare, continues to evolve. An area of care that
has gained increasing attention over the past several y ears is the general concept and …

Canadians' health and its care continue to evolve. Chronic diseases affect more than 50% of
our aging population, but the majority of public and professional stakeholders retain a sense …

The inaugural issue of The Patient–Patient-Centered Outcomes Research included a piece
on Planetree's 1 efforts to elevate awareness and adoption of patient-centered care …

Patient-centered care has become a central aim for the nation's health system, yet patient
experience surveys indicate that the system is far from achieving it. Based on interviews with …

The patient-centred approach is not new in family medicine. It is 1 of the 6 core procedure
skills in the residency curriculum. 1 Twenty years after groundbreaking work by the late Dr …

In his seminal work on health care quality, Avedis Donabedian noted that patient satisfaction
was a key indicator of health care quality, and in the 1970s and 1980s a great deal of …

Patient‐centred care is commonly framed as a means to guard against the problem of
medical paternalism, exemplified in historical attitudes of 'doctor knows best'. In this sense …

Richard H. Glazier MD MPH CCFP FCFP Before considering the problems and potential
solutions facing Canadian primary care and the Canadian health care system, it is important …

All of this seems praiseworthy, but what does it mean in practice? How would you know if the
care you received was truly patient-centered? How would providers know if they were …