Putting Goal-Oriented Patient Care Into Practice

Abstract

New efforts have begun to transform healthcare to focus on patient-centered care. Such efforts will be facilitated by eliciting, operationalizing, and measuring the attainment of patient-identified goals of healthcare. This article describes a practical approach to goal setting and measurement that can be used in efforts to implement patient-centered care.

Keywords: chronic diseases; goal attainment scaling; outcomes; patient preferences; patient-centered care.

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