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Smart Health Choices : making sense of health advice
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Irwig, Les.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consumer Health Information.
- Health Behavior.
- Decision Making.
- Medical Subjects:
- Consumer Health Information.
- Health Behavior.
- Decision Making.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (358 p.)
- Other Title:
- Smart health choices
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hammersmith Books Limited, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Smart Health Choices provides the tools for assessing health advice, whether it comes from a specialist, a general practitioner, a naturopath, the media, the internet of a friend. It shows you how to take an active role in your own healthcare, and how to make the best decisions for you and your loved ones, based on your personal preferences and the best available evidence.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; About the authors; Before you read this book; Acknowledgements; Disclaimer; I: Health advice can be harmful; 1: This book could save your life; 2: Be sceptical; 3: Bad evidence; 4: Don't always rely on the experts; II: Your body, your choice; 5: Smart health choice essentials; 6: Choosing a practitioner or a hospital; III: Stories and studies; 7: An education in shopping; 8: The weakness of one; 9: The power of many; IV: Evaluating the evidence; 10: Judging which tests and treatments really work; 11: What makes you sick?
- V: Improving your healthcare12: Finding the best evidence; 13: Doing your bit; 14: How to apply the evidence to you and your situation; VI: Testing your skill; 15: Making sense of health advice; 16: Is this a useful diagnostic test?; 17: Decision thresholds; 18: Relative risk, relative and absolute risk reduction, number needed to treat and confidence intervals; Useful sources of health advice; Glossary; After you read this book; A, B, C; Index; D, E, F; G, H, I; J, K, L; M, N, O; P, Q, R; S, T, U; V, W, X; Y, Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78161-053-3
- OCLC:
- 881567360
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