Patient-Centered Care

2008 ABIM Foundation Forum: From Rhetoric to Reality: Advancing Patient-Centered Care

The 2008 ABIM Foundation Forum brought together 150 health leaders, physicians, nurses, researchers, payers, and individuals with compelling experiences as patients and family caregivers to discuss a complex and critical issue: How to achieve patient-centered care. 

Participants grappled with defining patient-centered care; examining barriers and identifying affordable and sustainable strategies to achieve this goal. This meeting is summarized in Patient-Centered Care: A Vision to Guide Health System Reform.

Other publications resulting from the 2008 Forum include:

• Berwick DM. What ‘Patient-Centered’ Should Mean: Confessions Of An Extremist. Health Aff. 2009 28(4): w555-65.
  
• Epstein, R, Fiscella, K, Lesser CS, Stange, KC. Why the Nation Needs a Policy Push on Patient-Centered Health Care. Health Aff. 2010 29(8): 1489-1495.
  
• Levinson W, Lesser CS, Epstein RM. Developing Physician Communication Skills For Patient-Centered Care. Health Aff. 2010 29(7): 1310-1318.