Seven Guiding Commitments: Making the U.S. Healthcare System More Compassionate:

Journal of Patient Experience

Beth A.Lown¹ 

关键词: compassionate care;    healthcare quality;    patient-centered care;    relationship-centered care;    patient experience;   

DOI  :  10.1177/237437431400100203

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Despite the current focus on patient centeredness, healthcare professionals face numerous challenges that impede their ability to provide compassionate care that ameliorates concerns, distress, or suffering. These include fragmentation and discontinuity of care, technologies that both help and hinder communication and relationship-building, burgeoning operational and administrative requirements, inadequate communication skills training, alarming rates of burnout, and increased cost and market pressures. A compassionate healthcare system begins with compassionate people, but the organizations in which they train and work must reliably enable them to express and act on their compassion rather than impede it. We present a set of guiding commitments and recommendations to foster a more compassionate healthcare system. We urge healthcare organizations to adopt these commitments and take action to embed compassionate care in all aspects of training, research, patient care and organizational life.

【 授权许可】

CC BY