Essential Values-Based Practice: Clinical Stories Linking Science with People

by Edward Peile, Heidi Carroll, K.W.M. Fulford, et al.

Book Overview

This book will help clinicians acquire and develop the processes and skills of values-based practice. The aim of most patient-clinician consultations is to improve health outcomes. Often they succeed, and patients are satisfied and empowered. However, some consultations are unsatisfactory and result in failure to improve health outcomes and dissatisfaction on the part of patients, carers or clinicians. When consultations fail to achieve the desired...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521530253
• ISBN13: 9780521530255
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 9.5"