Trained as a trauma-informed care facilitator, Dr. Kristy Carbonelli-Cloutier, DC, MBA, understands how intentional choices in office layout, communication, and clinical interactions can help patients feel safer, more respected, and more engaged in their care. “Trauma informed care is increasingly...
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Where Are Chiropractic Clinical Outcomes Registries?
Where are chiropractic clinical outcomes registries? My colleagues—former American Chiropractic Association (ACA) President Michele Maiers, DC, MPH, PhD; Kent Stuber, DC, MSc, PhD; KatiePohlman, DC, MS, PhD; and Amy Ferguson, MLS —and I recently published a paper exploring this critical...
Body Language and Person-centered Care
Patient, or person-centered care, has several definitions. Two examples include: “Integrated health care services delivered in a setting and manner that is responsive to the individual and their goals, values and preferences, in a system that empowers patients and providers...
11 Reasons Why Performance Measurement Matters to the Chiropractic Profession
Long before many of us can remember, there were only two people sitting in the chiropractic treatment room – the patient and the doctor. Gradually, the state licensing boards starting showing up. They were joined by the insurance industry. Then...
Enhancing a Biopsychosocial Approach
Part of the Evidence in Action series by Palmer College of Chiropractic The concept of caring for the whole patient is not new. As early as the 5th century BC, Hippocrates described the importance of attending to the person behind...
Taking an Evidence-Based Approach to Patient Care
By now you are no doubt familiar with the concept of evidence-based clinical practice (EBCP). But what does that really mean for the doctor of chiropractic? How does one actually implement the “the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current...
