| List of contributors | |
| Foreword | |
| List of abbreviations | |
| Sect. 1 | Evidence-based health care | |
| 1 | Evidence-based patient choice? | 3 |
| 2 | Evidence-based medicine for professionals | 19 |
| 3 | Evidence-based health care: what roles for patients? | 34 |
| Sect. 2 | Theoretical perspectives on evidence-based patient choice | |
| 4 | Ethical issues and evidence-based patient choice | 53 |
| 5 | Health economics and patient choice | 66 |
| 6 | Evidence and risk: the sociology of health care grappling with knowledge and uncertainty | 78 |
| Sect. 3 | Conceptual development for clinical practice | |
| 7 | Patient-centredness in medicine | 97 |
| 8 | Shared decision making: the principles and the competences | 118 |
| 9 | Risk communication - making evidence part of patient choices | 144 |
| 10 | Decision analysis: utility for everyday use? | 161 |
| Sect. 4 | Evidence-based patient choice in practice | |
| 11 | Evidence-based patient choice in primary health care | 181 |
| 12 | Evidence-based patient choice in secondary care | 191 |
| 13 | Narrative and patient choice | 206 |
| 14 | The role of decision aids in promoting evidence-based patient choice | 220 |
| Sect. 5 | The next and possible future developments | |
| 15 | Education and training of health care professionals | 245 |
| 16 | Moving to the mainstream | 270 |
| 17 | Consumer health informatics in the Internet age | 289 |
| 18 | The future | 308 |
| Index | 323 |
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
