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Promoting Informed Choice


Promoting Informed ChoiceTransforming Health Care to Dispense Knowledge for Decision Making

Nowadays, people are inundated with information on health care. Newspapers, advertisements, the Internet – with all this information, patients no longer accept that “doctor knows best.

 

However, despite a demand for information from patients, the healthcare system is still unable to help patients make confident decisions. Healthcare professionals sometimes lack up-to date information as well as good counselling skills, and some patients face literacy and/or language barriers. How can patients be helped to make confident and informed decisions?

For more information :
http://www.fcrss.ca/other_documents/insight_action/pdf/insight_action19_e.pdf

 

 

Return to the dossier on:
What is HTA?

 

Adapted by : Stéphanie Tailliez, Ph.D.

 

December 15, 2007 By: pboinot Category: Evaluation and policy, Health care system, What is HTA?

Un commentaire / One comment


  1. 1 - From : Pierre Bouchard

    Une recherche menée aux États-Unis montre qu’environ 60 % des adultes (18 ans et plus) ont recours à Internet pour se renseigner sur des questions de santé. (Voir http://pierre-bouchard.com). Or, comment s’assurer que l’information trouvée sur des blogues et des sites Internet est la bonne ? Je crois qu’il y aurait de la place au Québec et au Canada pour des sites d’information pour les patients, des sites bien documentés et validés par des autorités compétentes.


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