“Collaborative care” is preferable to “patient centred care”

There are always some advantages and disadvantages associated with each system of care. In patient centred care, optimum care might be missed out due to interference from patient himself due to lack of knowledge and awareness. Collaborative care may disregard patients feeling while planning, administering and managing a medical problem. This may lead to patient dissatisfaction even though the treatment administered would be standard. Ideally there should be balance between collaborative care and patient centred cared depending upon individual cases. Thus under treatment, over treatment and patient dissatisfaction will be avoided and balanced type of care is administered to the patients.