Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Review quotes
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- A bold claim to start this book
- Prologue: linking science with people
- Part 1 Values, individuals and an overview of values-based practice
- Part 2 The clinical skills for values-based practice
- Part 3 Relationships in values-based practice
- Part 4 Science and values-based practice
- Part 5 Bringing it all together
- Postcript: the small change of care
- A bold claim to end this book
- Appendix A Values-based practice summary and definitions of key terms
- Appendix B Values-based practice teaching framework
- Index
A bold claim to end this book
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Review quotes
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- A bold claim to start this book
- Prologue: linking science with people
- Part 1 Values, individuals and an overview of values-based practice
- Part 2 The clinical skills for values-based practice
- Part 3 Relationships in values-based practice
- Part 4 Science and values-based practice
- Part 5 Bringing it all together
- Postcript: the small change of care
- A bold claim to end this book
- Appendix A Values-based practice summary and definitions of key terms
- Appendix B Values-based practice teaching framework
- Index
Summary
We began with our assertion that the most likely reason why things go wrong in clinician–patient interactions is a failure of values-based practice, not a failure of evidence-based practice. In light of what you have gleaned about the processes of values-based practice from our clinical illustrations, you may like to test our claim over the coming year.
We end with another assertion. If you rehearse and practice the elements of values-based practice detailed in this book, you are likely to find your consultations more personally rewarding and your patients are likely to derive more benefit.
Don't forget you already possess many, if not most, of the skills, and if some (such as dissensus and casuistry) are new to you, you will find them relatively easy to adopt.
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- Essential Values-Based PracticeClinical Stories Linking Science with People, pp. 204Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012