Engaging Patients in Managing Their Health Care: Patient Perceptions of the Effect of a Total Joint Replacement Presurgical Class | Zendy

Mary-Louise Lane-Carlson | Zendy; John Kumar | Zendy

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Engaging Patients in Managing Their Health Care: Patient Perceptions of the Effect of a Total Joint Replacement Presurgical Class

Author(s) -

Mary-Louise Lane-Carlson,

John Kumar

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

the permanente journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.445

H-Index - 30

eISSN - 1552-5775

pISSN - 1552-5767

DOI - 10.7812/tpp/11-143

Subject(s) - medicine , social connectedness , perception , health care , quality of life (healthcare) , population , nursing , family medicine , medical education , psychology , environmental health , neuroscience , economics , psychotherapist , economic growth

To engage patients in managing their health care especially in relation to a total joint replacement (TJR). With the aging of the American population and the advent of new technology, there is an increase in TJRs. As the pendulum swings from evidence-based medicine to patient-centered medicine, presurgical education is preparing patients for their surgical experience. Most research studies on such education are quantitative in nature, preventing patients' voices from being heard.

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