Relationship-centred care: antidote, guidepost or blind alley? The epistemology of 21st century health care
Relationship-centred care: antidote, guidepost or blind alley? The epistemology of 21st century health care
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2014-06
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Wyer, Peter
Silva, Suzana Alves da
Post, Stephen G
Quinlan, Patricia
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Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
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Contemporary health care is increasing in complexity and lacks a unifying understanding of epistemology, methodology and goals. Lack of conceptual consistency in concepts such as 'patient-centred care' (PCC) typifies system-wide discordance. We contrast the fragmented descriptions of PCC and related tools to its own origins in the writings of Balint and to a subsequent construct, relationship-centred care (RCC). We identify the explicit and elaborated connection between RCC and a defined epistemological foundation as a distinguishing feature of the construct and we demonstrate that this makes possible the recognition of alignments between RCC and independently developed constructs. Among these, we emphasize Schon's reflective practice, Nonaka's theory of organizational knowledge creation and the research methodology of realist synthesis. We highlight the relational principles common to these domains and to their common epistemologies and illustrate unsatisfying consequences of adherence to less adequate epistemological frameworks such as positivism. We offer RCC not as an 'antidote' to the dilemmas identified at the outset but as an example that illuminates the value and importance of explicit identification of the premises and assumptions underlying approaches to improvement of the health care system. We stress the potential value of identifying epistemological affinities across otherwise disparate fields and disciplines.
Keywords: evidence-based medicine; patient-centred care; person-centred medicine.
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person-centred medicine, Patient-centred care, evidence-based medicine
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Wyer PC, Alves Silva S, Post SG, Quinlan P. Relationship-centred care: antidote, guidepost or blind alley? The epistemology of 21st century health care. J Eval Clin Pract. 2014 Dec;20(6):881-9. doi: 10.1111/jep.12224. Epub 2014 Jul 29. PMID: 25073807.