The Knowledgeable Patient
Communication and Participation in Health
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Beschreibung
Learn how to place communication and participation at the heartof evidence-based healthcare
The Knowledgeable Patient: Communication and Participation inHealth sits at the forefront of the challenging, changing21st century landscape. The 'knowledgeable patient' asan individual can take many forms: patient, family carer, consumeradvocate, or member of the public interested in health issues. Ineach of these roles, knowledgeable patients interact with healthprofessionals by asking questions about the evidence for treatment,seeking support, exchanging views, and contributing experiences andnew ideas on how to improve the health system.
Drawing from several research paradigms, The KnowledgeablePatient is an essential guide to a new era of complexhealthcare. Integrating consumer stories and evidence fromsystematic reviews, it examines key communication and participationissues in a range of contexts, including:
* surgery
* safe medicine use
* chronic disease self management
* the complexity of multimorbidity
* notification of rare disease risk.
The Knowledgeable Patient is international in scope withresearched examples spanning living in the community, healthservice treatment, governance, and policy making. It provideshealth professionals with new ideas, concepts, evidence, andpractical tools to understand the central role of communication andparticipation to a well-functioning health system. Itis an ideal reference for undergraduate and postgraduate studentsstudying the health sciences.
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"Besides health professionals and users of healthservices, this book is an indispensable asset to healthcarelibrarians who endeavour to save the time of the reader byidentifying systematic reviews and careful analysis of researchstudies on carefully selected themes. This Cochrane handbook willenrich the practice of all the partners in care and it needs to bewidely available in clinicians' practice rooms, collegelibraries and hospital wards." (European Journal forPerson Centered Healthcare, 23 January 2013)
"I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interestin patient and public involvement within any health-relateddiscipline." (Royal College of Pathologists,2012)
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