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Book Synopsis

Learn how to place communication and participation at the heart of evidence-based healthcare

The Knowledgeable Patient: Communication and Participation in Health sits at the forefront of the challenging, changing 21st century landscape. The ''knowledgeable patient'' as an individual can take many forms: patient, family carer, consumer advocate, or member of the public interested in health issues. In each of these roles, knowledgeable patients interact with health professionals by asking questions about the evidence for treatment, seeking support, exchanging views, and contributing experiences and new ideas on how to improve the health system.

Drawing from several research paradigms, The Knowledgeable Patient is an essential guide to a new era of complex healthcare. Integrating consumer stories and evidence from systematic reviews, it examines key communication and participation issues in a range of contexts, including:

  • surge

    Trade Review

    “Besides health professionals and users of health services, this book is an indispensable asset to healthcare librarians who endeavour to save the time of the reader by identifying systematic reviews and careful analysis of research studies on carefully selected themes. This Cochrane handbook will enrich the practice of all the partners in care and it needs to be widely available in clinicians’ practice rooms, college libraries and hospital wards.” (European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare, 23 January 2013)

    “I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in patient and public involvement within any health-related discipline.“ (Royal College of Pathologists, 2012)



    Table of Contents
    List of contributors, vii

    Preface, ix

    Acknowledgements, xii

    Chapter 1 Does communication with consumers and carers need to improve? 1
    Megan Prictor and Sophie Hill

    Chapter 2 A new conceptual framework for advancing evidence-informed communication and participation, 12
    Sophie Hill and Mary Draper

    Chapter 3 Interventions for communication and participation: their purpose and practice, 27
    Sophie Hill, Dianne B. Lowe and Rebecca E. Ryan

    Chapter 4 Identifying outcomes of importance to communication and participation, 40
    Sophie Hill, Dianne B. Lowe and Joanne E. McKenzie

    Chapter 5 Communicating risk and risk statistics for preventing chronic disease, 54
    Sophie Hill, Adrian G.K. Edwards and Dianne B. Lowe

    Chapter 6 What does participation mean? Reshaping our understanding of the meaning of surgery, 67
    Sophie Hill and Jessica Kaufman

    Chapter 7 Disclosure: a case study of communication about medically acquired risk for a rare disease, 82
    Rebecca E. Ryan, Jessica Kaufman and Sophie Hill

    Chapter 8 How I used a systematic review from The Cochrane Library, 94
    Helen Dilkes, Jessica Kaufman and Sophie Hill

    Chapter 9 Evidence and resources for systems decision-making: improving the experience of health and treatment, 105
    Dianne B. Lowe, Sophie Hill and Rebecca E. Ryan

    Chapter 10 Looking at online health information more critically, 115
    John Kis-Rigo

    Chapter 11 Learning to communicate, 125
    Megan Prictor, Simon Lewin, Brian McKinstry and Jessica Kaufman

    Chapter 12 Getting the most out of research: using what we know, 143
    Dell Horey, Jessica Kaufman, Sophie Hill

    Chapter 13 Research agendas for knowledgeable patients, 151
    Ruth Stewart and Sandy Oliver

    Chapter 14 Managing multiple health problems: is there evidence to support consumer-focused communication and participation? 161
    Rebecca E. Ryan and Sophie Hill

    Chapter 15 Partners in care – an evidence-informed approach to improving communication with women in a hospital setting, 173
    Sophie Hill, Maureen Johnson and Mary Draper

    Chapter 16 Building health-literate societies, 184
    Sophie Hill, Dianne B. Lowe, Chaojie Liu and Nancy Santesso

    Chapter 17 Tools for building research capacity and knowledge transfer, 196
    Helen Dilkes, Jessica Kaufman and Sophie Hill

    Chapter 18 Emerging technologies for health communication, 208
    Yannis Pappas and Josip Car

    Index 218

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    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
    Publication Date: 07/10/2011
    ISBN13: 9781444337174, 978-1444337174
    ISBN10: 1444337173

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Learn how to place communication and participation at the heart of evidence-based healthcare

    The Knowledgeable Patient: Communication and Participation in Health sits at the forefront of the challenging, changing 21st century landscape. The ''knowledgeable patient'' as an individual can take many forms: patient, family carer, consumer advocate, or member of the public interested in health issues. In each of these roles, knowledgeable patients interact with health professionals by asking questions about the evidence for treatment, seeking support, exchanging views, and contributing experiences and new ideas on how to improve the health system.

    Drawing from several research paradigms, The Knowledgeable Patient is an essential guide to a new era of complex healthcare. Integrating consumer stories and evidence from systematic reviews, it examines key communication and participation issues in a range of contexts, including:

    • surge

      Trade Review

      “Besides health professionals and users of health services, this book is an indispensable asset to healthcare librarians who endeavour to save the time of the reader by identifying systematic reviews and careful analysis of research studies on carefully selected themes. This Cochrane handbook will enrich the practice of all the partners in care and it needs to be widely available in clinicians’ practice rooms, college libraries and hospital wards.” (European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare, 23 January 2013)

      “I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in patient and public involvement within any health-related discipline.“ (Royal College of Pathologists, 2012)



      Table of Contents
      List of contributors, vii

      Preface, ix

      Acknowledgements, xii

      Chapter 1 Does communication with consumers and carers need to improve? 1
      Megan Prictor and Sophie Hill

      Chapter 2 A new conceptual framework for advancing evidence-informed communication and participation, 12
      Sophie Hill and Mary Draper

      Chapter 3 Interventions for communication and participation: their purpose and practice, 27
      Sophie Hill, Dianne B. Lowe and Rebecca E. Ryan

      Chapter 4 Identifying outcomes of importance to communication and participation, 40
      Sophie Hill, Dianne B. Lowe and Joanne E. McKenzie

      Chapter 5 Communicating risk and risk statistics for preventing chronic disease, 54
      Sophie Hill, Adrian G.K. Edwards and Dianne B. Lowe

      Chapter 6 What does participation mean? Reshaping our understanding of the meaning of surgery, 67
      Sophie Hill and Jessica Kaufman

      Chapter 7 Disclosure: a case study of communication about medically acquired risk for a rare disease, 82
      Rebecca E. Ryan, Jessica Kaufman and Sophie Hill

      Chapter 8 How I used a systematic review from The Cochrane Library, 94
      Helen Dilkes, Jessica Kaufman and Sophie Hill

      Chapter 9 Evidence and resources for systems decision-making: improving the experience of health and treatment, 105
      Dianne B. Lowe, Sophie Hill and Rebecca E. Ryan

      Chapter 10 Looking at online health information more critically, 115
      John Kis-Rigo

      Chapter 11 Learning to communicate, 125
      Megan Prictor, Simon Lewin, Brian McKinstry and Jessica Kaufman

      Chapter 12 Getting the most out of research: using what we know, 143
      Dell Horey, Jessica Kaufman, Sophie Hill

      Chapter 13 Research agendas for knowledgeable patients, 151
      Ruth Stewart and Sandy Oliver

      Chapter 14 Managing multiple health problems: is there evidence to support consumer-focused communication and participation? 161
      Rebecca E. Ryan and Sophie Hill

      Chapter 15 Partners in care – an evidence-informed approach to improving communication with women in a hospital setting, 173
      Sophie Hill, Maureen Johnson and Mary Draper

      Chapter 16 Building health-literate societies, 184
      Sophie Hill, Dianne B. Lowe, Chaojie Liu and Nancy Santesso

      Chapter 17 Tools for building research capacity and knowledge transfer, 196
      Helen Dilkes, Jessica Kaufman and Sophie Hill

      Chapter 18 Emerging technologies for health communication, 208
      Yannis Pappas and Josip Car

      Index 218

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