Toward person-centered medicine: From disease to patient to person

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 304-306

  Mezzich, Juan ^a   Snaedal, Jon ^a   Van Weel, Chris ^a   Heath, Iona ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE; HOLISTIC CARE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; REVIEW; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 77952783492     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20187     Document Type: Review

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