Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions : Envisioning Health Care 2020.

Cover -- Contents -- The Ernst Strüngmann Forum -- List of Contributors -- Health Literacy: Is the Patient the Problem? -- 1 Launching the Century of the Patient -- 2 When Misinformed Patients Try to Make Informed Health Decisions -- 3 Reducing Unwarranted Variation in Clinical Practice by Supporting Clinicians and Patients in Decision Making -- 4 Do Patients Want Shared Decision Making and How Is This Measured? -- Health Illiteracy: Roots in Research -- 5 Health Research Agendas and Funding -- 6 Reporting of Research -- 7 Medical Journals Can Be Less Biased -- 8 What Is Needed for Better Health Care -- Health Illiteracy: Spread to the Public -- 9 Statistical Illiteracy in Doctors -- 10 Statistical Illiteracy in Journalism -- 11 Improving Health Care Journalism -- 12 Barriers to Health Information and Building Solutions -- Health Care 2020 -- 13 How Can Better Evidence Be Delivered? -- 14 The Drug Facts Box -- 15 Reengineering Medical Education -- 16 The Chasm between Evidence and Practice -- 17 The Future of Diagnostics -- 18 Direct-to-Consumer Advertising -- 19 How Will Health Care Professionals and Patients Work Together in 2020? -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Subject Index.

How eliminating "risk illiteracy" among doctors and patients will lead to better health care decision making.

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