The PCIC-model is the first patient-centred care (PCC) model based on the patients' perspective to be validated in an international setting. Although health-care organization and performance differ, the similarities between countries in the infertile patients' perspective were striking, as were the similarities with PCC models from other clinical conditions. A non-condition specific international PCC model and a European instrument for the patient centredness of infertility care could be developed. European professionals can learn from each other on how to provide PCC.
Dancet, E. A. F., D’Hooghe, T. M., Sermeus, W., van Empel, I., Strohmer, H., Wyns, C., Santa-Cruz, D., Nardo, L. G., Kovatchki, D., Vanlangenakker, L., Garcia-Velasco, J., Mulugeta, B., Nelen, W. L. D. M., & Kremer, J. A. M. (2012). Patients from across Europe have similar views on patient-centred care: an international multilingual qualitative study in infertility care. Human reproduction (Oxford, England), 27(6), 1702-1711. https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/des061 (Original work published 2012)