Better doctors, better patients, better decisions
Subtitle: envisioning health care 2020
By: edited by Gerd Gigerenzer and J. A. Muir Gray
Contributors: Gigerenzer, Gerd; Gray, J. A. Muir (John Armstrong Muir)
Series: Strungmann Forum reports
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780262016032
Subjects: Health education; Forecasting; Congresses; Medical education; Medicine; Decision making
Notes: Papers presented at the  Ernst Strüngmann Forum held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Oct. 25-30, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Health literacy : is the patient the problem?; title: Launching the century of the patient / Gerd Gigerenzer and J. A. Muir Gray; title: When misinformed patients try to make informed health decisions / Wolfgang Gaissmaier and Gerd Gigerenzer; title: Reducing unwarranted variation in clinical practice by supporting clinicians and patients in decision making / Albert G. Mulley, Jr., and John E. Wennberg; title: Do patients want shared decision making and how is this measured? / Martin Hañrter and Daniela Simon; title: Health illiteracy : roots in research; title: Health research agendas and funding / David E. Nelson; title: Reporting of research : are we in for better health care by 2020? / Holger Schanemann, Davina Ghersi, Julia Kreis, Gerd Antes, and Jean Bousquet; title: Medical journals can be less biased / J. A. Muir Gray; title: What is needed for better health care : better systems, better patients or both? / Markus A. Feufel, Gerd Antes, Johann Steurer, Gerd Gigerenzer, J.A. Muir Gray, Marjukka MÃñkelÃñ, Albert G. Mulley, Jr., David E. Nelson, Jay Schulkin, Holger Schanemann, John E. Wennberg, and Claudia Wild; title: Health illiteracy : spread to the public; title: Statistical illiteracy in doctors / Odette Wegwarth and Gerd Gigerenzer; title: Statistical illiteracy in journalism : are its days numbered? / Bruce Bower; title: Improving health care journalism / Holger Wormer; title: Barriers to health information and building solutions / Talya Miron-Shatz, Ingrid Mahlhauser, Bruce Bower, Michael Diefenbach, Ben Goldacre, Richard S. W. Smith, David Spiegelhalter, and Odette Wegwarth; title: Health care 2020; title: How can better evidence be delivered? / Norbert Donner-Banzhoff, Hilda Bastian, Angela Coulter, Glyn Elwyn, Gunther Jonitz, David Klemperer, and Wolf-Dieter Ludwig; title: The drug facts box : making informed decisions about prescription drugs possible / Lisa M. Schwartz and Steven Woloshin; title: Reengineering medical education / David A. Davis; title: The chasm between evidence and practice : extent, causes, and remedies / Richard S. W. Smith; title: The future of diagnostics : from optimizing to satisficing / Henry Brighton; title: Direct-to-consumer advertising : status quo and suggestions to enhance the delivery of independent medication information / Wolf-Dieter Ludwig and Gisela Schott; title: How will health care professionals and patients work together in 2020? : a manifesto for change / Ralph Hertwig, Heather Buchan, David A. Davis, Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Martin Harter, Kai Kolpatzik, France LÃgarÃ, Norbert Schmacke, and Holger Wormer.