Consumer Health Information Service for Patients and Medical Consumers. Medical Information Service for Patients Asked to Give Informed Consent.

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An information service for patients and their families was inaugurated at the Niigata Cancer Center Hospital in Japan in May of 1997. Patients and their families need plain medical knowledge after an initial stage of informed consent. The service is approved by the Informed Consent Investigation Committee set up at the hospital. The aims of the service are (1) to help the user to obtain suitable knowledge about the diseases in question, (2) to promote mutual understanding between the user and the doctor based on common knowledge, and (3) to assist the user in obtaining the best treatment. The service is offered two hours a day in the corner of a small meeting room near the hospital library. A rotating pair of volunteers who are skillful in counseling, a librarian, and a caseworker work for the service. The number of books and videotapes available for borrowing in the room is 280, and there are two copies of almost every title. Between May and August 1997, 346 users visited the room, and 189 books were borrowed. Problems to be solved are (1) lack of sufficient space for service activity, which sometimes interferes with user privacy, (2) an undetermined budget that depends on the hospital management, and (3) occasional uncertainty as to whether a patient has been informed of having cancer.
特定非営利活動法人日本医学図書館協会の論文