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Evidence-based patient choice : inevitable or impossible? /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Edwards, Adrian, 1965-, Elwyn, Glyn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Evidence-Based Medicine.
Patient Participation.
Physician-Patient Relations.
Ethics, Medical.
Patient Acceptance of Health Care.
Risk Assessment.
Table of Contents:
  • Evidence-based patient choice?
  • Evidence-based medicine for professionals
  • Evidence-based health care : what roles for patients?
  • Ethical issues and evidence-based patient choice
  • Health economics and patient choice
  • Evidence and risk : the sociology of health care grappling with knowledge and uncertainty
  • Patient centredness in medicine
  • Shared decision making : the principles and the competencies
  • Risk communication - making evidence part of patient choices
  • Decision analysis : utility for everyday use?
  • Evidence-based patient choice in primary health care
  • Evidence-based patient choice in secondary care
  • Narrative and patient choice
  • The role of decision aids in promoting evidence-based patient choice
  • Education and training of health care professionals
  • Moving to the mainstream
  • Consumer health informatics in the Internet age
  • The future