Health literacy - Mira Meeus, Nick Gebruers

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Health literacy is the ability to obtain, read, understand and use healthcare information to make appropriate health decisions and follow instructions for treatment. Health literacy thus encompasses skills both required for clinicians to practice evidence based medicine, as for researchers and policy makers to design sound research and establish proper guidelines and recommendations.

The present handbook is a practical manual and instruction for asking case-relevant questions, searching literature, critically reflecting on research, drawing conclusions, communicating the evidence, reporting formally and implementing the evidence. The book provides information and tips, supported by interactive media on the online learning platform Sophia.
Basic principles of research methodology are clarified, different study designs are elaborated, tip and tricks are provided for searching scientific databases PubMed and Web of Science, risk of bias assessment and levels of evidence are explained to draw conclusion for both c...
2016Taal: Engelszie alle details...

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2016Uitgever: Acco240 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte:  248x173x18ISBN-10: 9462927529ISBN-13: 9789462927520

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