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Definition Of Whole Person Care In General Practice In The English Language Literature: A Systematic Review, Hayley Thomas, Geoffrey Mitchell, Justin Rich, Megan Best
Definition Of Whole Person Care In General Practice In The English Language Literature: A Systematic Review, Hayley Thomas, Geoffrey Mitchell, Justin Rich, Megan Best
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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 …