Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Patient Care

Patient care is the practical and relational work of meeting a patient's physical, psychological, and social needs across diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and ongoing support. It encompasses the clinical tasks of assessment and intervention together with the communication, coordination, and ethical attention th…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 49× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 3070-5835 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Patient care is the practical and relational work of meeting a patient's physical, psychological, and social needs across diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and ongoing support. It encompasses the clinical tasks of assessment and intervention together with the communication, coordination, and ethical attention that make care safe, effective, and humane. A central theme in this area is the care team and its organisation, including how nurses work with unlicensed assistive personnel and how quality-improvement strategies reshape practice in healthcare facilities. A second strand concerns safe and appropriate treatment, encompassing medication adherence in chronic disease, rational prescribing and dispensing, antimicrobial stewardship, and infection prevention practices among healthcare workers. A third addresses the human dimensions of care, including the doctor-patient relationship, the experience and temporal burden of caregivers, and end-of-life care in long-term settings. Emerging work also examines the role of artificial intelligence in enhancing efficiency while preserving equity and empathy. Methodologically the field spans phenomenological inquiry, qualitative study, indicator-based audit, and review. By keeping the individual patient at the centre of clinical decision-making and service design, patient-care scholarship links technical competence, continuity, and compassion to better health outcomes and a better experience of care across diverse conditions and settings.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 49 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Patient Care, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Clinical and Practical Nursing (ISSN 3070-5835).

Journal editorial board
Laurie Duckworth · United States Muili Lawal · United Kingdom Kristen Altdoerffer · United States

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