ABSTRACT
The ultimate aim of patient-centered care is providing a health service of high quality. Hence, insurance payments are increasingly linked to the scores patients provide on their satisfaction in the questionnaires filled by them, which is really a revolution of thinking in office and hospital practice. In client- and patient-centered healthcare, the physicians are well aware of the moral implications of their work, and they treat their patients as equal and give respect to their patients’ thoughts and opinions in decision-making. There have been concerns that patient-centered care will be centered around individual needs, rather than focusing on the evidence-based approach, which tends to focus on populations and preventions. Patient-centered care is both the art and the science of the new evidence-based approach to healthcare. Healthcare delivery, since the time of Hippocrates, is the science of improving the human health condition.
