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Partnership with patients

Being confronted with a patient who has done a literature search, scanned the internet, made a provisional diagnosis, and knows what he or she wants from the health service is no longer a hypothetical scenario. People are becoming better informed about health, and a groundswell of support and government backing exists for the campaign being waged by consumer lobbies, patient organisations, and others for more and better information on health and for greater involvement in decision making.¹

Much of the information currently available to patients is inaccurate or misleading and gives little indication of outcome and treatment options. The need to improve such material and take more account of patients' information needs was emphasised at a recent meeting, organised by the King's Fund under its "Promoting patient choice" programme.^* It is also the focus of a new government funded Centre for Health Information Quality, which will coordinate and support the . . . [Full text of this article]

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Partnership with patients

Alison Blenkinsopp, James Bashford, David Dickinson, Sarah Sims, and Peter W Golightly
BMJ 1998 317: 413. [Extract] [Full Text]

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