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Patient-Centered Care in the Middle East

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Patient-centered care (PCC) is care that is responding to patients’ preferences, values, and needs. The concept was developed in the late 1960s. In 2001, the National Academy of Medicine announced PCC as one of the six main goals of healthcare. PCC is culture-sensitive. Although there is a large amount of literature in Western countries in this regard, much less work has been done in the Middle East. This chapter discusses the history of PCC in the Middle East, the concept of PCC, and barriers against its application and finally draws a conceptual framework for PCC in the Middle East.

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  1. Hadhramout University, College of Medicine, Mukalla, Yemen

    Hana Hasan Webair

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology Pharmacology and Therapeutics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Ismail Laher

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  1. Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ziad El-Khatib

  2. World Health Programme, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), Rouyn-Noranda, QC, Canada

    Ziad El-Khatib

  3. health care management, King Saud University, RIYADH, Saudi Arabia

    Asmaa Alyaemni

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Webair, H.H. (2021). Patient-Centered Care in the Middle East. In: Laher, I. (eds) Handbook of Healthcare in the Arab World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36811-1_66

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