Effectiveness of strategies for informing, educating, and involving patients

Defining and measuring health literacy: what can we learn from literacy studies?

“…Previous contributions to this series of editorials and other recent papers have highlighted the growth in interest in health literacy, as well as continuing debate about its definition, measurement and importance (Kickbusch 2009;Wills 2009;Abel 2008;Nutbeam 2008;Coulter and Ellins 2007). In further advancing these debates there is much to be gained from an appraisal of the underlying concept of literacy.…”

Do the public share practitioners’ views about the best evidence?

“…Views about the best evidence 12 Reassuringly, all participant groups had more confidence in a doctor's experience than in a friend's experience. They also all had more confidence in the latter than in the webbased sales.…”

A Concept Analysis of Continuity of Care in Nursing

“…Patient-centred care is defined variably, but broadly describes the shift away from a paternalistic delivery of healthcare where the patients' needs are assumed, to planning and delivering services in a way that recognizes patients are experts of their own health [21]. Patient-centred care is responsive to the increasing focus on biomedical processes at the expense of the patient experience.…”