The Knowledgeable Patient

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