The Knowledgeable Patient: Communication and Participation in Health

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Learn how to place communication and participation at the heart of evidence-based healthcareThe 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:surgery safe medicine use chronic disease self management the complexity of multimorbidity notification of rare disease risk. The Knowledgeable Patient is international in scope with researched examples spanning living in the community, health service treatment, governance, and policy making. It provides health professionals with new ideas, concepts, evidence, and practical tools to understand the central role of communication and participation to a well-functioning health system.   It is an ideal reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying the health sciences. Watch a video about The Knowledgeable Patient: Communication and Participation in Health from the author, Sophie Hill: bit.ly/xNYCqGContent: Chapter 1 Does Communication with Consumers and Carers need to Improve? (pages 1–11): Megan Prictor and Sophie HillChapter 2 A New Conceptual Framework for Advancing Evidence?Informed Communication and Participation (pages 12–26): Sophie Hill and Mary DraperChapter 3 Interventions for Communication and Participation: Their Purpose and Practice (pages 27–39): Sophie Hill, Dianne B. Lowe and Rebecca E. RyanChapter 4 Identifying Outcomes of Importance to Communication and Participation (pages 40–53): Sophie Hill, Dianne B. Lowe and Joanne E. McKenzieChapter 5 Communicating Risk and Risk Statistics for Preventing Chronic Disease (pages 54–66): Sophie Hill, Adrian G. K. Edwards and Dianne B. LoweChapter 6 What does Participation Mean? Reshaping our Understanding of the Meaning of Surgery (pages 67–81): Sophie Hill and Jessica KaufmanChapter 7 Disclosure: A Case Study of Communication about Medically Acquired Risk for a Rare Disease (pages 82–93): Rebecca E. Ryan, Jessica Kaufman and Sophie HillChapter 8 How I used a Systematic Review from The Cochrane Library (pages 94–104): Helen Dilkes, Jessica Kaufman and Sophie HillChapter 9 Evidence and Resources for Systems Decision?Making: Improving the Experience of Health and Treatment (pages 105–114): Dianne B. Lowe, Sophie Hill and Rebecca E. RyanChapter 10 Looking at Online Health Information more Critically (pages 115–124): John Kis?RigoChapter 11 Learning to Communicate (pages 125–142): Megan Prictor, Simon Lewin, Brian McKinstry and Jessica KaufmanChapter 12 Getting the Most out of Research: Using what we know (pages 143–150): Dell Horey, Jessica Kaufman and Sophie HillChapter 13 Research Agendas for Knowledgeable Patients (pages 151–160): Ruth Stewart and Sandy OliverChapter 14 Managing Multiple Health Problems: Is there Evidence to Support Consumer?Focused Communication and Participation? (pages 161–172): Rebecca E. Ryan and Sophie HillChapter 15 Partners in Care – An Evidence?Informed Approach to Improving Communication with Women in a Hospital Setting (pages 173–183): Sophie Hill, Maureen Johnson and Mary DraperChapter 16 Building Health?Literate Societies (pages 184–195): Sophie Hill, Dianne B. Lowe, Chaojie Liu and Nancy SantessoChapter 17 Tools for Building Research Capacity and Knowledge Transfer (pages 196–207): Helen Dilkes, Jessica Kaufman and Sophie HillChapter 18 Emerging Technologies for Health Communication (pages 208–217): Yannis Pappas and Josip Car