Patient empowerment: reflections on the challenge of fostering the adoption of a new paradigm.

By Robert M. Anderson, M. Funnell. Patient Education and Counseling, 2005

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Self-Management: Enabling and empowering patients living with cancer as a chronic illness (2011, background): “Patients whose concerns, priorities, and resources are considered important enough to be included in the plan of care are empowered.(36) Time-limited courses facilitated by peer or professional leaders and”
Patient empowerment in theory and practice: polysemy or cacophony? (2007, methodology): “Our work is therefore based on the analysis of 55 articles published between 1995 and 2006, including 27 research articles [12–38] and 28 theoretical papers [39–66].”
Patient Empowerment: Myths and Misconceptions (2009, background): “(4) Making such a shift is difficult because the training and socialization of many HCPs is profoundly embedded in a traditional approach to care.(4) Rather than making a genuine philosophical shift to empowerment, many HCPs attempt to incorporate empowerment into their current beliefs and practices”