Perceptions of patient-centred care among providers and patients in the orthopaedic department of a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan.

We recommend practices of PCC that are congruent with non-Western settings where religion and family play a primary role in matters dealing with patients' illnesses. Our findings suggest the need for recurrent training to improve teamwork among providers; questioning the implicit agreement of patients who may be vulnerable to decision making of authoritarian figures in their family; and the inclusion of peer-support workers or community health workers to offer aftercare support to patients in their home.