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Information about health care effectiveness
— an introduction for consumer health information providers | | Author(s) | Vikki A Entwistle, Ian S Watt, James E Herring |
| Corporate Author | King's Fund |
| Publisher | King's Fund, London, 1996 |
| Pages | 77 pp (Promoting Patient Choice 3) |
| Source | BEBC, PO Box 1496, Poole, Dorset, BH12 3YD. |
| Keywords | Health services ; Information services ; Communication ; Librarians ; Consumer ; Patients. |
| Annotation | This book is primarily intended for people working in consumer health information services and for students of librarianship and information management. The issues covered are also likely to be of interest to a wider audience. It aims to enhance the professional's ability to provide good quality information about the effectiveness (risks and benefits) of health care interventions to patients, carers and members of the public. It provides an introduction to the concept of evidence-based health care, and considers how consumer health information providers might identify and obtain good quality research-based information about health care effectiveness. It explains why there is so much interest in providing people with information about health care effectiveness and involving them in decisions about their care. It highlights some of the practical and ethical issues which this raises for consumer health information providers. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970515208 B |
| Classmark | L: UV: U: XOL: WY: LF |
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