Look it up! : what patients, doctors, nurses, and pharmacists need to know about the internet and primary health care / Pierre Pluye and Roland Grad with Julie Barlow.

By:

Pluye, Pierre [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017Description: 1 online resource (xii, 182 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780773551909
0773551905
9780773551916
0773551913
9780773551367
0773551360

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

610.285 23

LOC classification:

R859.7.I58 P58 2017eb

NLM classification:

2017 H-908
W 26.55.D2

Other classification:

cci1icc
coll13

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EBSCOhost (requires login)

Contents:

1. A New Way of Diagnosing -- 2. Do I Really Need This Test? -- 3. When Clinicians Disagree -- 4. The Expanded Role of Pharmacists -- 5. Better Treatment for Chronic Problems and Common Conditions -- 6. Getting Patients Engaged -- 7. The Pros and Cons of "Doctor Google" -- 8. Nurses and Doctors Can't Remember Everthing -- 9. The Hidden Problem of Health Literacy -- 10. The Family Doctor of the Future.

Summary: "Readily available, reliable medical information allows doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to find answers, reduce uncertainties, work with their patients, and check for alternative treatment options within minutes. Even though electronic information sources have developed at an amazing pace over the last decades, clinicians are not using these resources as much as they could - and should. 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."-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed March 10, 2020).

"Readily available, reliable medical information allows doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to find answers, reduce uncertainties, work with their patients, and check for alternative treatment options within minutes. Even though electronic information sources have developed at an amazing pace over the last decades, clinicians are not using these resources as much as they could - and should. 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."-- Provided by publisher.