Resources Supporting Person-Centered Care

September 12, 2023

Person-centered care is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences and needs, ensuring patient values guide all clinical decisions.(1) Person-centeredness principles are core elements of chiropractic care. For example, the American Chiropractic Association’s Code of Ethics includes several tenets...

Offering a Choice: A Double Benefit? Paternalism vs. Person Centered Care

August 6, 2023

Modern healthcare grew from a paternalistic model, which simply put, means providers make healthcare decisions for patients. Paternalism is based on an underlying assumption that providers are the most capable of making decisions that generate the best clinical outcomes. An...

Unpacking a Clinical Guideline

April 25, 2023

High-quality clinical guidelines are summaries of scientific literature designed to assist practitioner and patient decisions about health and healthcare.(1) These guidelines are developed through a systematic process of reviewing and consolidating scientific evidence. Because scientific knowledge evolves over time, guidelines...

The Importance of Health Literacy to Patient Care and Access

September 15, 2021

In September of 2020, Forbes shared a statistic from the U.S. Department of Education that says 54% of adults ages 16-74 in the United States read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level. This means that about 130 million people in the...

If Not Bone Out of Place, Then What?

October 30, 2018

Learn ACA Survey Course Shows How Chiropractic Theory Has Changed and Where the Science Is Taking Us Is it as simple as bone-out, pinched-nerve, cause dis-ease? For more than a century, chiropractic science—at least as offered by many chiropractors—was frozen...