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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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