The DISCERN Handbook

TheDISCERNH andbookQuality criteria for consumer health informationon treatment choicesCompiled byDeborah CharnockRadcliffe Medical Press 1998 University of Oxford and The British LibraryRadcliffe Medical Press Ltd18 Marcham Road, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 1 AAAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in anyform or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recorded or otherwise without the prior permission of thecopyright individuals, organisations and publishers involved in The DISCERN Handbook accept no responsibility for claimsresulting from its improper Library Cataloguing in Publication DataA catalogue record for this book is available from The British 1 85775 310 0 Typeset by Advance Typesetting Limited, and bound in Great BritainTheDISCERN Project Team consisted of.

List of terms Throughout DISCERN and the handbook, the following terms are used: Treatmentmeans a course of action adopted to deal with a health problem or illness. Treatments can be conventional(or orthodox) or complementary(or alternative), and can include self-care (or self-help, i.e. ways in which you can help yourself or make yourself feel better) and …

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