作者
Hayley Thomas, Geoffrey Mitchell, Justin Rich, Megan Best
发表日期
2018/12/1
来源
BMJ open
卷号
8
期号
12
页码范围
e023758
出版商
British Medical Journal Publishing Group
简介
Objectives
The importance of ‘whole person’ or ‘holistic’ care is widely recognised, particularly with an increasing prevalence of chronic multimorbidity internationally. This approach to care is a defining feature of general practice. However, its precise meaning remains ambiguous. We aimed to determine how the term ‘whole person’ care is understood by general practitioners (GPs), and whether it is synonymous with ‘[w]holistic’ and ‘biopsychosocial’ care.
Design
Systematic literature review.
Methods
MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Proquest Dissertations and Theses, Science.gov (Health and Medicine database), Google Scholar and included studies’ reference lists were searched with an unlimited date range. Systematic or literature reviews, original research, theoretical articles or books/book chapters; specific to general practice; relevant to the research question; and published in …
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H Thomas, G Mitchell, J Rich, M Best - BMJ open, 2018