Look It Up!
What Patients, Doctors, Nurses, and Pharmacists Need to Know about the Internet and Primary Health Care
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2017
- Category
- Diagnosis
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773551367
- Publish Date
- Oct 2017
- List Price
- $37.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773551916
- Publish Date
- Oct 2017
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
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.
About the authors
Pierre Pluye is professor and FRQS Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University and director for method development at the Quebec Strategy for Patient Oriented Research SUPPORT Unit.
Roland Grad is associate professor of family medicine at McGill University and a practising family doctor in Montreal.
Julie Barlow grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, and has been working as a freelance writer since 1995. She writes for magazines and newspapers in Canada, including Chatelaine, Report on Business and L’actualité, and has published in The New York Times, USA Today and more. Author of eight books, including The Bonjour Effect, Julie is presently developing a TV documentary series based on her book The Story of French, written with husband and partner Jean-Benoît Nadeau. She lives in Montreal with Nadeau and their two daughters.
