REFERENCES
- Asimakopoulou KG, et al. 'First do no harm': the potential shortfalls of empowerment in diabetes. Eur Diabetes Nurs 2010;7:79–81.
- Asimakopoulou K, et al. Health care profes-sionals' understanding and day-to-day prac-tice of patient empowerment in diabetes; time to pause for thought? Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2012;95(2):224–9.
- Scambler S, et al. Barriers and opportunities of empowerment as applied in diabetes set-tings: a focus on health care professionals' experiences. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2012;97(1):e18–22.
- Asimakopoulou K, et al. Back to basics: Re-examining the role of patient empower-ment in diabetes. Patient Educ Couns 2012;86(3):281–3 .
- Rathert C, et al. Patient-centered care and outcomes: a systematic review of the literature. Med Care Res Rev 2012 Nov 20. [ Epub ahead of print.]
- Inzucchi SE, et al. Management of hypergly-caemia in type 2 diabetes: a patient-centered approach. Position statement of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). Diabetologia 2012;55: 1577–96.
- Kitson A, et al. What are the core elements of patient-centred care? A narrative review and synthesis of the literature from health policy, medicine and nursing. J Adv Nurs 2013;69:4–15.
- Olsson LE, et al. Efficacy of person-centred care as an intervention in controlled trials - a systematic review. J Clin Nurs 2013;22: 456–65.
- Crossing the Quality Chasm. Institute of Medicine, Committee on Quality of Healthcare in America, 2001. www.iom.edu/Reports/2001/Crossing-the-Quality-Chasm-A-New-Health-System-for-the-21st-Century.aspx [ accessed 26 March 2013].
- Hudon C, et al. Measuring patients' perceptions of patient-centered care: a systematic review of tools for family medicine. Ann Fam Med 2011;9:155–64.
- Mead N, Bower P. Patient-centredness: a conceptual framework and review of the empirical literature. Soc Sci Med 2000;51: 1087–110.
- Stewart M, et al. Patient-Centred Medicine: Transforming the Clinical Method. Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2003.
- Asimakopoulou K. Empowerment in the self-management of diabetes: are we ready to test assumptions? Eur Diabetes Nurs 2007;4:94–7.
- Patient Empowerment - who empowers whom? Lancet 2012 May 5;379: 1677. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60699-0 [accessed 25 March 2013].
- Stevens R, et al. The UKPDS risk engine: a model for the risk of coronary heart disease in Type II diabetes (UKPDS 56). Clin Sci 2001;101:671–9.