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Look It Up!What Patients, Doctors, Nurses, and Pharmacists Need to Know about the Internet and Primary Health Care |
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A behind-the-scenes guide that reveals how online information affects both patients and clinicians.
Doctors Pierre Pluye and Roland Grad, internationally recognized experts in the fields of knowledge translation and health information studies, along with bestselling author and journalist Julie Barlow, take readers behind the scenes to show how online information is affecting self-care and primary health care in medicine, nursing, and pharmacy. Based on fifteen years of in-depth interviews and research, Look It Up! provides essential tips for patients and clinicians to administer and receive the best possible primary health care, while avoiding the perils of unguided self-diagnosis. This book shows how, by dint of an inquiring mind and a smartphone, rapid and accurate acquisition of knowledge keeps primary care clinicians up to date. It also shows how people can determine whether a test is more beneficial than harmful, and how information helps resolve disagreements and improve collaboration with patients and families, and among doctors, pharmacists, and nurses.
In the age of easily accessible online information, clinicians have to think differently about how they work. Organized around numerous real clinical stories, Look It Up! is an illuminating and lively guide to improving patient care.
In the age of easily accessible online information, clinicians have to think differently about how they work. Organized around numerous real clinical stories, Look It Up! is an illuminating and lively guide to improving patient care.
Details
200 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5
1 table, 2 figures
ISBN 9780773551367
October 2017
Formats: Cloth, eBook
“Look It Up! should be required reading for patients who want to be better informed about how to navigate the health system in any country.” Mark H. Ebell, MD, University of Georgia and author of Evidence-Based Diagnosis: A Handbook of Clinical Prediction Rules
“A fresh, easy-to-read, engaging work that will be of interest to patients and clinicians alike.” Denise Campbell-Scherer, MD, University of Alberta
“A fresh, easy-to-read, engaging work that will be of interest to patients and clinicians alike.” Denise Campbell-Scherer, MD, University of Alberta
Pierre Pluye is professor and FRQS Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University and director for method development at the Quebec Strategy for Patient Oriented Research SUPPORT Unit.
Roland Grad is associate professor of family medicine at McGill University and a practising family doctor in Montreal.
Julie Barlow is a bestselling author and regular contributor to the Quebec public affairs magazine L’actualité.
Roland Grad is associate professor of family medicine at McGill University and a practising family doctor in Montreal.
Julie Barlow is a bestselling author and regular contributor to the Quebec public affairs magazine L’actualité.
Foreword by David Slawson, MD vii
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 3
1 A New Way of Diagnosing 19
2 Do I Really Need This Test? 31
3 When Clinicians Disagree 49
4 The Expanded Role of Pharmacists 65
5 Better Treatment for Chronic Problems and Common Conditions 78
6 Getting Patients Engaged 94
7 The Pros and Cons of “Doctor Google” 106
8 Nurses and Doctors Can’t Remember Everything 116
9 The Hidden Problem of Health Literacy 130
10 The Family Doctor of the Future 144
Notes 155
Bibliography 161
Index 175
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 3
1 A New Way of Diagnosing 19
2 Do I Really Need This Test? 31
3 When Clinicians Disagree 49
4 The Expanded Role of Pharmacists 65
5 Better Treatment for Chronic Problems and Common Conditions 78
6 Getting Patients Engaged 94
7 The Pros and Cons of “Doctor Google” 106
8 Nurses and Doctors Can’t Remember Everything 116
9 The Hidden Problem of Health Literacy 130
10 The Family Doctor of the Future 144
Notes 155
Bibliography 161
Index 175
