Question

. In which model of care is the patient expected to be passive, unquestioning and compliant with the health professional solely responsible for control over information and clinical decisions?

Answer 1

Patient - centered care has a particular approach in which the health care professional- patient relationship that include communication, respect, choice and focus on patient than on clinical condition.

The quality of care provided by health professionals depend on the way they respect the patients needs, values, goals, and involvement of patient in desicion making.

The patient centered care involves a combination of care of ' paternalistic' and ' informed patient or independent choice models of care.

In the traditional 'paternalistic model of care' the health care professionals are the soul authority in desicion making , discloses information when needed and makes the desicion for the patient.Here, the patient remains passive, unquestioning and compliant.

Paternalistic model differs from 'informed patient model' where the health care professional pass the information to patient and choice about care rest upon patient in informed patient model.

Patient centered care has high benefits as it increases patient satisfaction, quality of life, reduces patient anxiety,improvement over physiological symptoms,reduce number of unnecessary diagnostic test and unnecessary referrals.

So, as per question the answer is traditional "paternalistic model" where the desicion makers are health care professionals, patients remain passive, unquestioning and compliant to health care professionals desicion.