Standards for posttransplant graft/survival rates do not reward transplant centers for performing riskier transplants to increase population benefit.

The University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) implemented a major curriculum revision to incorporate patient- and family-centered care concepts.

Physician health programs for impaired or disruptive physicians are not coercive but part of the social contract governing professional licensure.

Art-based patient advocacy has expanded public awareness and opened the eyes of many to patients' health care experiences.

Compassion for vulnerable patients is essential to the art of medicine, which has not advanced with the science of medicine.

Thoughtful design can welcome patients’ families’ roles in promoting healing. At the same time, clinicians’ need for functionality and privacy is critical. How ought these considerations be balanced in designing the spaces where patient care takes place?

A patient- and family-centered approach can illuminate possible risks and benefits of bone marrow donation to child donors and sibling recipients.

Introduction to the January 2016 issue on promises and challenges in patient- and family-centered care.

Implementing the six-step Patient- and Family-Centered Care Methodology and Practice would improve experiences and outcomes while decreasing costs.

Since the 1970s, various factors have generated a shift in medical culture from the prioritization of individual autonomy to relational autonomy