EU-wide there is a clear and urgent need to curb healthcare costs. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-centred care have been given the task of coordinating a project to investigate how Europe’s healthcare costs can be kept down whilst quality of care is maintained or even improved.
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Malin Högberg, curator at the Röhsska Museum, talks with Astrid Norberg, professor emerita at the University of Umeå. The conversation focuses on person-centered care, taking it’s starting point in Malin Högbergs own life with type 1 diabetes.
Almedalen 2013:Person-centred care – reduces pain and shortens hospital stay
What practical obstacles stand in the way of real patient power? Examples from Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Östra in Gothenburg, where research findings are quickly implemented, indicate that person-centred care can shorten hospital stays, and patients are more satisfied. At a seminar during Almedal week, representatives from the department related how they had succeeded in shortening length of stay by twelve per cent after just six months. “Specifically, providing person-centred care means that we now ask each patient three questions: Why are you here? How do you perceive your problems? What are your goals for this hospital stay? ” says Elin Hultgren, specialty registrar at the internal medicine department.