Physicians' Information Needs: Analysis of Questions Posed during Clinical Teaching

Osheroff, Jerome A.; Forsythe, Diana E.; Buchanan, Bruce G.; Bankowitz, Richard; Blumenfeld, Barry H.; Miller, Randolph A.

doi:10.7326/0003-4819-114-7-576

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“…Our survey results suggest that Internet access at home does not lead to more frequent researching of medical information. Physicians in an academic setting have an unexpected daily need for information at work 12 . Having Internet access at work, when medical problems are more on the mind, may be one of the important factors explaining trainees' greater use of the Internet for medical purposes.…”

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A comparison of internet usage between two residency programs in the United Kingdom and the United States

Sanders

2002

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

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“…Studies in the primary care 14 and academic 12 The anesthesia trainees surveyed use the Internet at work and they use it to research medical information, which they consider useful and accurate. More importantly, those who have access at work use it more often for medically related purposes than those without access at work.…”

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A comparison of internet usage between two residency programs in the United Kingdom and the United States

Sanders

2002

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

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“…Algumas das variáveis que determinam ou dimensionam a necessidade de informação são, por exemplo, (a) as relacionadas com fatores demográficos -idade, profissão, especialização, estágio na carreira, localização geográfica; (b) as relacionadas com o contexto -situação de necessidade específica, premência interna ou externa; (c) as relacionadas com a freqüência -necessidade recorrente ou nova; (d) as relacionadas com a capacidade de prevê-la -necessidade antecipada ou inesperada; (e) as relacionadas com a importância -grau de urgência; (f) as relacionadas com a complexidade -de fácil ou difícil solução (LECKIE; PETTIGREW; SYLVAIN, 1996). Osheroff et al (1991), por sua vez, sugeriram que as necessidades informacionais dos médicos são complexas e variáveis. Há respostas que podem ser obtidas nos prontuários médicos, e há questões que requerem a reunião de uma série de informações, como dados do paciente, dados dos registros do hospital e o próprio conhecimento do médico.…”

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Necessidades e comportamento informacional: conceituação e modelos

Martinez-Silveira¹,

Oddone²

2007

Ci. Inf.

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ResumoA necessidade informacional pode ser entendida como uma experiência subjetiva que ocorre na mente de cada indivíduo em determinada circunstância ou como condição objetiva observável quando uma informação específica contribui para atender ao motivo que a gerou. Comportamento informacional, em contrapartida, está relacionado à busca, ao uso e ao manejo de informações e fontes para satisfazer aquelas necessidades. Um dos segmentos mais estudados da ciência da informação, os conceitos de necessidade e de comportamento informacional, é o objeto deste trabalho de revisão da literatura, que se detém na busca informacional como principal manifestação do comportamento perante a necessidade. Apresentam-se modelos clássicos de comportamento informacional e ilustra-se com a aplicação do modelo de Wilson em pesquisa recentemente concluída no âmbito nacional. Palavras-chaveNecessidades informacionais. Comportamento informacional.Information needs and information behavior: concepts and models SummaryAn information need can be understood as a subjective experience that takes place in the mind of each individual in certain circumstances or as an objective condition that can be observed when a specific information contributes to answer the need that generated it. Information behavior, on the other hand, is related to the search, use and handling of information sources to satisfy that need. Focusing mainly on the information seeking activity, the present literature review covers the concepts of information needs and information behavior, two of the best studied subjects in Information Science. Classic models are presented and illustrated by describing the application of Wilson's model in a Brazilian recently finished research. KeywordsInformation needs. Information behavior. INTRODUÇÃOAo longo dos últimos 50 anos, tem-se testemunhado transformações radicais na sociedade humana. Acompanhando esse processo, a ciência da informação, tradicionalmente envolvida com temas relativos aos usuários e aos usos da informação, desenvolveu, até a década de 1980, estudos centrados nos sistemas de informação e em sua eficiência. Sua maior preocupação era o perfeito funcionamento desses sistemas e de seus mecanismos de recuperação da informação.Da década de 80 em diante, ao contrário, o aparecimento de recursos voltados para a automação das tarefas documentárias e a mudança na maneira de perceber o usuário, agora na perspectiva de sua interação com as máquinas, despertaram reflexões e interpretações absolutamente diferentes. Enquanto principal beneficiário desses sistemas, percebeu-se que o usuário deveria ocupar o centro das atenções. Foi então que começaram a surgir pesquisas dedicadas especificamente ao exame daqueles que eram de fato os atores centrais de qualquer sistema de informação: não mais os aparelhos ou os artefatos, mas os usuários (FIGUEIREDO, 1994).Desde os primeiros anos do século XXI, contudo, um novo paradigma vem-se firmando, relacionado a uma perspectiva agora mais socializante. Isto ocorreu porque se percebeu que tanto o...

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“…In other studies, this number has ranged from 0.7 questions per 10 patients in a private office setting to 57.7 questions per 10 patients on an inpatient teaching service. 2,8,19 Our participants spent an average of less than 2 minutes pursuing an answer. In a study of questions asked by Missouri family physicians, MEDLINE searches by medical librarians took an average of 27 minutes per question.…”

Section: Generic Question Questions Asked † Questions Pursued ‡ Questmentioning

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Analysis of questions asked by family physicians regarding patient care

Ely

Osheroff

Ebell

et al. 2000

Western Journal of Medicine

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ⅷ Objectives To characterize the information needs of family physicians by collecting the questions they asked about patient care during consultations and to classify these in ways that would be useful to developers of knowledge bases. ⅷ Design An observational study in which investigators visited physicians for two half-days and collected their questions. Taxonomies were developed to characterize the clinical topic and generic type of information sought for each question. ⅷ Setting Eastern Iowa. ⅷ Participants Random sample of 103 family physicians. ⅷ Main outcome measures Number of questions posed, pursued, and answered; topic and generic type of information sought for each question; time spent pursuing answers; and information resources used. ⅷ Results Participants asked a total of 1,101 questions. Questions about drug prescribing, obstetrics and gynecology, and adult infectious disease were most common, comprising 36% of the total. The taxonomy of generic questions included 69 categories; the three most common types, comprising 24% of all questions, were "What is the cause of symptom X?" "What is the dose of drug X?" and "How should I manage disease or finding X?" Answers to most questions (n = 702 [64%]) were not immediately pursued, but of those pursued, most (n = 318 [80%]) were answered. Physicians spent an average of less than 2 minutes pursuing an answer, and they used readily available print and human resources. Only two questions led to a formal literature search. ⅷ Conclusions Family physicians in this study did not pursue answers to most of their questions. Questions about patient care can be organized into a limited number of generic types, which could help guide the efforts of knowledge-base developers.

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Physicians' Information Needs: Analysis of Questions Posed during Clinical Teaching

Cited by 237 publications

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A comparison of internet usage between two residency programs in the United Kingdom and the United States

A comparison of internet usage between two residency programs in the United Kingdom and the United States

Necessidades e comportamento informacional: conceituação e modelos

Analysis of questions asked by family physicians regarding patient care

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