Readership: GPs, academics and clinicians who address health care situations where decisions about patient care are made. Consumer interest groups.
Edited by Adrian Edwards, Principal and Lecturer in General Practice, University of Wales College of Medicine, and Glyn Elwyn, General Practitioner, Cardiff
""This well designed book is clear, accessible and, as one would expect from the title, evidence-based . . . I think this is a great book that challenges clinicians and others working in health care to develop and adapt to a rapidly changing and demanding world. Can we do it with support from patients? The answer is in the book!"" - Family Practice, Vol 19, No 3
""Before the last chapter, evidence-based patient choice could still be an option. After it, there's simply no argument."" - EBPC on Bandolier
""This impressive edited book . . . is truly excellent . . . essential reading for all those interested in patient involvement and evidence-based health-care."" - Health Expectations, 5
Richard Grol: Foreword Section 1 - Evidence-based health care Elwyn, Edwards and Pollock: Evidence-based patient choice? Muir Gray: Evidence-based medicine for professionals Entwistle and O'Donnell: Evidence-based health care: what role for patients? Section 2 - Theoretical perspectives on evidence-based patient choice Ashcroft, Hope and Parker: Ethical issues and evidence-based patient choice Scott: Health economics and patient choice Bellaby: Evidence-based practice and risk: the sociology of health care grappling with knowledge and uncertainty Section 3 - Conceptual development for clinical practice Stewart and Brown: Patient-centredness in medicine Elwyn and Charles: Shared decision making: the principles and the competencies Section 4. Evidence-based choice in practice Schofield: Evidence-based patient choice in primary health care Rosenberg: Evidence-based patient choice in secondary care Greenhalgh: Narrative and patient choice O'Connor and Edwards: The role of decision aids in promoting evidence-based patient choice Section 5. The next and possible future developments Towle and Godolphin: Education and training of health care professionals Holmes-Rovner, Llewellyn-Thomas and Elwyn: Moving to the mainstream Eysenbach and Jadad: Consumer health informatics in the internet age Coulter: The future
