What Do Patients Need in the Process of Constructing a Doctor-patient Community with a Shared Future / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

Constructing a doctor-patient community with a shared future requires efforts from both the medical supply side and the patient demand side, with special attention to the needs of patients. Continuously meeting and improving the needs of patients is the starting point, ultimate goal, and evaluation standard for constructing a doctor-patient community with a shared future. Therefore, this paper proposed the proposition of "what patients need", that is, what needs do patients have and how to meet their needs. The fundamental needs of patients are to diagnose and treat diseases and recover from illness, which are specifically manifested in the demands to narrate the disease’s feelings, the willingness to participate in medical decision-making, the experience of diagnosis and treatment in the process of medical treatment, and the satisfaction evaluation of the hospital’s performance appraisal. On the basis of clarifying the needs of patients, this paper proposed the paths and methods to meet patients’ needs, and provided new ideas for constructing a doctor-patient community with a shared future.