Patient-Centered Care

"Patient-Centered Care" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Design of patient care wherein institutional resources and personnel are organized around patients rather than around specialized departments. (From Hospitals 1993 Feb 5;67(3):14)

Descriptor ID	D018802
MeSH Number(s)	N04.590.233.727.407
Concept/Terms	Patient-Centered Care Patient-Centered Care Care, Patient-Centered Patient Centered Care Nursing, Patient-Centered Nursing, Patient-Centered Nursing, Patient Centered Patient-Centered Nursing Patient Centered Nursing Patient-Focused Care Patient-Focused Care Care, Patient-Focused Patient Focused Care Medical Home Medical Home Home, Medical Homes, Medical Medical Homes

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Patient-Centered Care".

Health Care [N]
Health Services Administration [N04]
Patient Care Management [N04.590]
Comprehensive Health Care [N04.590.233]
Primary Health Care [N04.590.233.727]
Patient-Centered Care [N04.590.233.727.407]

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Bar chart showing 113 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2013

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	0	1
2001	0	1	1
2003	0	1	1
2004	1	1	2
2006	0	2	2
2007	0	1	1
2008	0	1	1
2009	5	1	6
2010	6	3	9
2011	4	2	6
2012	7	2	9
2013	7	3	10
2014	6	0	6
2015	5	4	9
2016	6	1	7
2017	9	0	9
2018	4	3	7
2019	1	4	5
2020	5	3	8
2021	2	3	5
2022	2	2	4
2023	0	2	2
2024	0	2	2

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Heald J, Fetzer DT, Rodgers S, Jain V, Fung A, Liu X, Wilson S, Kamaya A, Marks RM. Patient centered HCC surveillance - complementary roles of ultrasound and CT/MRI. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2025 05; 50(5):2088-2096.

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Walling AM, Verma M, Grudzen CR, Enguidanos S, Barrett NJ, Johnson KS, Combe AK, Johnston FM, Greer JA. Implementing Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Stakeholder Engagement Principles in Models of Palliative Care Delivery and Advance Care Planning Research. Med Care. 2024 10 01; 62(10):693-700.

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Lipton RB, Buse DC, Nahas SJ, Tietjen GE, Martin VT, L?f E, Brevig T, Cady R, Diener HC. Risk factors for migraine disease progression: a narrative review for a patient-centered approach. J Neurol. 2023 Dec; 270(12):5692-5710.

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El-Sabawi B, Cloud H, Patel JN, Bell SP, Elmariah S, Fearon WF, Kim JB, Piana RN, Kapadia SR, Kumbhani DJ, Gillam LD, Whisenant BK, Quader N, Zajarias A, Welt FG, Bavry AA, Coylewright M, Vatterott A, Jackson N, Huang S, Lindman BR. Association of Depression and Cognitive Dysfunction With Patient-Centered Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2023 08; 16(8):e012875.

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Peeples AD, Muralidharan A, McCarthy S, Goldberg R, Kuykendall L, Vineyard N, Chinman M. Barriers and Enablers to Implementing Peer Specialists in Veterans Health Administration Primary Care: a Qualitative Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 02; 38(3):707-714.

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Verma M, Brahmania M, Fortune BE, Asrani SK, Fuchs M, Volk ML. Patient-centered care: Key elements applicable to chronic liver disease. Hepatology. 2023 07 01; 78(1):307-318.

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Schwedt TJ, Hentz JG, Sahai-Srivastava S, Murinova N, Spare NM, Treppendahl C, Martin VT, Birlea M, Digre K, Watson D, Leonard M, Robert T, Dodick DW. Patient-Centered Treatment of Chronic Migraine With Medication Overuse: A Prospective, Randomized, Pragmatic Clinical Trial. Neurology. 2022 04 05; 98(14):e1409-e1421.

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Subbe CP, Goodman A, Barach P. Co-design of interventions to improve acute care in hospital: A rapid review of the literature and application of the BASE methodology, a novel system for the design of patient centered service prototypes. Acute Med. 2022; 21(4):182-189.

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Keith SW, Waters D, Alcusky M, Hegarty S, Jafari N, Lombardi M, Pini M, Maio V. The Medical Home Initiative in Italy: an Analysis of Changes in Healthcare Utilization. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 05; 37(6):1380-1387.

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Inouye CF, Kaminski MA. Improve Patient-Centered Care, Decrease Provider Burnout, Maximize Z Codes, Minimize Hierarchical Condition Category Codes. Popul Health Manag. 2022 02; 25(1):1-3.

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