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Session 3 - Information gathering

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  • Guidelines for advertising regulated health services
    Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency 
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  • Why do we need evidence-based medicine?
    This is an easy to read article about evidence-based medicine.
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  • DISCERN questionnaire
    DISCERN is a brief questionnaire which provides consumers with a valid and reliable way of assessing the quality of written information on treatment choices for a health problem.
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  • List of Predatory Journals
    There are an increasing number of ‘predatory journals’ who charge authors to publish in the journal and don’t have a peer-review process. The quality of evidence in these journals therefore cannot be relied on.
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  • Abhyankar, P., Volk, R. J., Blumenthal-Barby, J., Bravo, P., Buchholz, A., Ozanne, E., . . . Stalmeier, P. (2013). Balancing the presentation of information and options in patient decision aids: an updated review. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 13 (Suppl 2), S6. doi:10.1186/1472-6947-13-S2-S6
  • Kecman, E. (2018). Old challenges, changing contexts: reviewing and reflecting on information provision for parents of children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Deafness & Education International, 1-22. doi:10.1080/14643154.2018.1506072
  • Ubel, P. A., Jepson, C., & Baron, J. (2001). The Inclusion of Patient Testimonials in Decision Aids: Effects on Treatment Choices. Medical Decision Making, 21(1), 60-68. doi:10.1177/0272989X0102100108
  • Winterbottom, A., Bekker, H. L., Conner, M., & Mooney, A. (2008). Does narrative information bias individual’s decision making? A systematic review. Social Science & Medicine, 67, 2079-2088. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.037
You have finished Session 3 of the course on Making Informed Decisions.
Session 4 is about Informed Choice

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