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...
ACA Tag: patient preferences
Resources Supporting Person-Centered Care
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...
Why Do Patients Think We Are Good at Managing Low Back Pain?
A recent tweet from a research colleague in The Netherlands gave me new appreciation for a paper titled: “What does the patient with back pain want? A comparison of patient preferences and physician assumptions” (Smuck M, Barrette K, Martinez-Ith A...
