Information Prescription in Patient-Centered Healthcare

Access to reliable, relevant, and implementable healthcare information has been identified as one of the key determinants for reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (Godlee, 2006) The challenge is to ''ensure that everyone in the world can have access to clean, clear knowledge-a basic human right, and a public health need as important as access to clean, clear water, and much more easily achievable.'' ( Pang et al., 2006). A physician prescribed health information with evidence based framework is a way for guaranteeing the right dissemination of information to patients and their care givers. Librarians and information specialist have an active role in providing and filling information prescribed by physicians. This book can be used as a reference for medical library and information students and faculty members, a guide for practice and theory of Ix, the role of patients in Ix, the guidelines and also websites for filling the information prescriptions.