© 2001 Evidence-Based Nursing
Smart Health Choices: How To Make Informed Health Decisions
Department of Family and Community Medicine University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Smart Health Choices
aims to provide healthcare consumers with the necessary tools to assess health advice, whether from a physician, a naturopath, the media, the internet, or a friend. This book is targeted at healthcare consumers, not clinicians. It is written by an Australian trio with various perspectives: a husband and wife team (she is a "communicator" and healthcare consumer; he is a clinically trained epidemiologist) and a medical writer.
[in a new window] Irwig J, Irwing, L, Sweet M. Smart Health Choices: How To Make Informed Health Decisions. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1999.
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Smart Health Choices is a small paperback with brief chapters, useful summaries, and the occasional cartoon. It has 5 sections that cover everything from identifying meaningful health claims, to finding a good doctor, to evaluating evidence. Individual chapters include discussions on such topics as "don't always rely on the expert," choosing a practitioner, judging the evidence, and applying evidence to
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