2013
DOI: 10.18438/b8rc9s
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Are Best Practices Really Best? A Review of the Best Practices Literature in Library and Information Studies

Abstract: the terms of the Creative Commons-Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License 2.5 Canada (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-ncsa/2.5/ca/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed, not used for commercial purposes, and, if transformed, the resulting work is redistributed under the same or similar license to this one. AbstractObjective -The term "best practice" appears often in library and information science literatur… Show more

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“…As part of the review of the literature, a member of the research team searched through databases including PubMed, Medline, Google (also -Scholar and -books) with the following key terms: Precision Medicine in Primary Care/ Personalised Medicine in Primary Care/ Genomics in Primary Care/ Pharmacogenomics/ Shared decision-making in PM. The researcher gathered and logged publications based on (1) Opinion of relevance, (2) Formal and informal qualitative and quantitative studies, (3) Literature reviews and (4) Year of publication (2014 to date), to gather information on the 'new' field of PM across different sources and evidence (Druery et al 2013). The process documented a list of publications validated by members of the project team.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As part of the review of the literature, a member of the research team searched through databases including PubMed, Medline, Google (also -Scholar and -books) with the following key terms: Precision Medicine in Primary Care/ Personalised Medicine in Primary Care/ Genomics in Primary Care/ Pharmacogenomics/ Shared decision-making in PM. The researcher gathered and logged publications based on (1) Opinion of relevance, (2) Formal and informal qualitative and quantitative studies, (3) Literature reviews and (4) Year of publication (2014 to date), to gather information on the 'new' field of PM across different sources and evidence (Druery et al 2013). The process documented a list of publications validated by members of the project team.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The term "best practice" is used in various disciplines for improving practices based on proven performance [65]. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary [66], best practice is "a procedure that has been shown by research and experience to produce optimal results, and that is established or proposed as a standard suitable for widespread adoption".…”
Section: Jointly Pursued Fela Pathways and Ffpla Elements Principles ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Historically, one of the first analyses of this issue can be found in the article by Wareham and Gerrits (1999). Further analyses in this regard were conducted by Pudelko and Mendenhall (2009), stressing the contingent nature of best practices in national competitiveness as well as by Druery et al, (2013). The effectiveness of the best practices approach in human resource management was critically analyzed by Bezzina et al (2017).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%