The health states were designed to describe the functional and patient-centred impacts of CLL and it treatment, rather than clinical descriptions of the disease, in line with published guidelines for health state development [ 15].
This study assesses various types of health report, including that used by the City of Barcelona Spainn), with a focus on social determinants, as well as an international health report more centred on the impact of health services.
Patient-centred measures of disease impact, particularly the impact of pain on health-related quality of life, are important in understanding the relationship between number of comorbid conditions and patient experience.
The precise jargon involved is different in each case, and arguably more useful (because more precise) in the medical context – but medical jargon is no less obscure to the uninitiated, and no less risky in terms of its potential impacts on patient-centred care.
This paper uses predominantly Australasian case studies to highlight trends, successes and challenges in the transition to neighbourhood centred water-based services using 'Low Impact' and 'Water Sensitive' design and development techniques.
The impact of HRT on patient centred outcomes such as health related quality of life was questioned.
Importantly, patients have described a LIC learning environment as learner- and patient-centred with a positive impact on their health care [ 11].
This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the ADDQoL-Teen, an innovative individualised, patient-centred questionnaire measuring perceived impact of diabetes mellitus on quality of life (QoL) of teenagers.
Studies have demonstrated the impact of doctors' empathy and patient centred care on patient enablement [ 22] and health outcomes [ 6, 23] in both chronic and acute conditions [ 24- 27].
However, the impact of dementia care mapping and person centred care on staff has not been well researched.
For dement elderly especially only subjective and user-centred methods, which focus on the individual needs, lead to sufficient information about its impacts [ 19].
