Patient information
Under patient information refers to publications with information for medical laymen on issues of health and health promotion , to disease and examination - and treatment options and to facilities of health care (eg. Hospitals , doctors' offices , health insurance , etc.).
Patient information on medical topics should enable patients in particular to understand and classify an illness or its symptoms . They should provide information about benefits, risks and side effects , but also warn against useless, superfluous and harmful measures.
In Switzerland, the patient information leaflet for medicines is also called patient information.
Development of patient information
Comprehensive and as objective as possible patient information with medical content is developed - similar to medical guidelines - on the basis of the best available scientific evidence (the so-called evidence ). Such patient information is also called patient guidelines or - if it concerns systematic recommendations for healthy people - health guidelines (see e.g. under National Health Care Guideline ). Evidence-based patient information is an essential part of medical decision support for patients .
The informed patient
The “informed patient” is the goal that Deutsche Krebshilfe supports in the intention of meeting the doctor as a partner and being able to ask him precise questions. The series of free brochures on diseases, diagnostics and healing chances, rich in topics, was supplemented in early 2011 by the first "cancer dictionary". It explains medical terms. The publications “are always checked for their accuracy by well-known specialists”, explained the doctor Eva M. Kalbheim from the German Cancer Aid in Bonn. The texts are also regularly adapted to current scientific knowledge.
See also
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- Medical Center for Quality in Medicine (ÄZQ). Manual Patient Information - Recommendations for creating evidence-based patient information . ( Memento from February 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.2 MB) Berlin: ÄZQ; 2006. ISBN 3-9811002-0-4
- Medical Center for Quality in Medicine (ÄZQ), Oncology Guideline Program (OL), AWMF Institute for Medical Knowledge Management (AWMF-IMWi). Creation of patient guidelines for S3 guidelines / NVL within the framework of the guideline programs oncology and NVL . ( Memento from February 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 0.5 MB) Berlin: ÄZQ; 2016. DOI: 10.6101 / AZQ / 000274
Web links
- Patient information service of the medical profession at ÄZQ with access to quality-checked patient information
- Patient information on medical guidelines of the AWMF
- Gesundheitsinformation.de - Internet portal for patient information from IQWiG
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Lenz, Susanne Buhse, Jürgen Kasper, Ramona Kupfer, Tanja Richter, Ingrid Mühlhauser Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012; 109 (22-23)
- ↑ Press release of the German Cancer Aid from January 12, 2011 ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
