Top 30 Quality Measures

Patient-centeredness refers to establishing a partnership among practitioners, patients and their families (when appropriate) to ensure that decisions respect patients’ wants, needs and preferences. This includes ensuring that patients have the education and support they need to make their own decisions and participate in their own care.
Additional Domain(s) : Legal, Patients with Psychosis

Whatever treatments are offered, it is essential to engage the service user in a collaborative, trusting and caring working relationship at the earliest opportunity. Professionals should take into full account the particular nature of schizophrenia: namely, that the illness may affect peoples ability to make judgments, to recognise that they are ill, to comprehend clearly what professionals might say to them and to make informed decisions about their treatment and care.

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence. (2002). Schizophrenia: Core interventions in the treatment and management of chizophrenia in primary and secondary care. Retrieved July 13, 2006, from http://www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx? o=CG001NICEguideline-

IV: Evidence based on individual expert opinion.

• Eats up time for care delivery - most patients expect that consent is implied. It’s too bureaucratic.
• How would this be measured? I think it is extremely difficult to get consensus on what informing for consent is in practice. The textbook definition is easy - the application is fraught with complexity, nuance, etc.

Ratings-based Rank Relevance 14 Actionability 15 Overall Importance 19		Stakeholder Rank Academics 37 Clinicians 19 Consumers 4 Decision Makers 6 �		Special Group Rank First Nations 23 Rural Areas 1 Federal Stakeholders 18
Regional Rank BC AB SK MB ON QC NB NS PE NL YT NT NU 10 28 33 15 13 30 9 31 29 16 10 6 5				Overall Rank        12