This short annotated bibliography covers literature on patient centeredness in the Swedish context during the period 1993-2005. The criteria for selection have taken one particular slant on patient centeredness namely: are the authors trying to describe/see things from the patient’s point of view. The following databases were used: CINAHL, Diva , HighWire, Google Scholar, Elin Libris. The search terms used were: Patient focused, patient centred, patient perspective; patientnear; Sweden, qualitative analysis; nursing; caring; lived experience.