The information needs and information seeking behaviour of family doctors: a selective literature review

Bryant, Sue Lacey

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2532.2000.00272.x

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“…There is a large body of literature that demonstrates that nurses and other healthcare professionals prefer to use verbal information to support clinical decisions or resolve clinical uncertainty (Bryant , McKnight & Peet , Thompson et al . ,c, Estabrooks et al .…”

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Clinical credibility and trustworthiness are key characteristics used to identify colleagues from whom to seek information

Marshall

West

Aitken

2013

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Aims and objectives To explore the use of information by nurses making decisions in clinically uncertain situations in one aspect of critical care nursing practice (enteral feeding). In this paper, we report the characteristics, which participants identified as important, of the people from whom they sought information for the purpose of making clinical decisions. Background Registered nurses have a plethora of information sources available to assist them in making clinical decisions. Identifying and selecting the best information to support these decisions can be difficult and is influenced by factors such as accessibility, usefulness and variations in quality of the information. Design An instrumental case study design using multiple case study analysis. Method Twenty‐two critical care nurses from two intensive care units contributed to the data through multiple methods of data collection including concurrent verbal protocols (think aloud), retrospective probing and focus group interviews. Results Nurses preferentially used colleagues as a source of information when faced with uncertainty about their clinical practice. Most participants placed greater emphasis on evaluating the individual providing the information rather than on evaluating the information itself. Key features used for identifying an individual as a source of information included experience, clinical role, trust and approachability. Conclusion Establishing clearly what clinical credibility means, and to what extent trustworthiness and expertise play a role in the establishment of credibility, is an important debate for nursing. We need to carefully consider what defines the construct of clinical credibility and how this aligns with the concept of clinical currency, to allow clinicians to determine in others the characteristics associated with clinical credibility to access quality information through social interaction. Relevance to clinical practice Processes to focus on determining the quality of information obtained from colleagues should be emphasised. What these processes are and how they could be implemented into clinical practice remains unknown and is highlighted as an area for future research.

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Clinical credibility and trustworthiness are key characteristics used to identify colleagues from whom to seek information

Marshall

West

Aitken

2013

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…The model is now being used to investigate information behaviour associated with the provision of healthcare, as this is a fertile field for exploration (Coumou and Meijman, 2006;Davies, 2007;Dawes and Sampson, 2003;Gorman, 1999;Lacey Bryant, 2000). It is hoped that the findings will provide evidence of the practical relevance of the model and thus of the other models, and highlight any modifications that may need to be made.…”

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Building on models of information behaviour: linking information seeking and communication

Robson

Robinson²

2013

Journal of Documentation

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“…8 Their findings indicated that researchers were interested in consultation services, improved access to electronic journals, and training and support for basic computer skills and specific bioinformatics so ware tools. Other biomedically related groups that have been studied prior to implementing specialized services include medical researchers 9 ; clinical teams 10 ; health sciences faculty 11 ; biology faculty 12 and biology students 13,14 ; biotechnologists 15,16 ; family physicians 17 ; hospice and palliative care providers 18 ; and mental health service providers 19 …”

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Planning Bioinformatics Education and Information Services in an Academic Health Sciences Library

MacMullen

Vaughan²,

Moore³

2004

CRL

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This article describes a planning process for the development of bioinformatics education and information services in an academic health sciences library.The project's five goals were to: (1) understand the changing environment for information related to bioinformatics; (2) understand the information needs of faculty whose work involves bioinformatics; (3) explore potential service offerings; (4) anticipate factors influencing the implementation of new services; and (5) envision strategies for recruiting and training information professionals to fill these roles. The authors describe the library's practice environment and review recent research on the information needs of biomedical researchers and clinicians. A variety of potential library-based services in relation to bioinformatics are enumerated, and the institutional, environmental, and personnel factors affecting the deployment of services are examined. Finally, the authors describe the educational and training context of the library, and explore potential roles for librarians and information professionals in the context of bioinformatics services.his article describes the process of planning specialized service and resource offerings within the Health Sciences Library (HSL) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) for health sciences faculty working in the interdisciplinary field of bioinformatics.Such nontraditional services have been discussed recently in the library and medical literatures as ways to address the evolving information needs of biomedical researchers, educators, and clinicians and as examples of the evolving roles of information professionals in the sciences. This framework is offered as a stimulus W. John MacMullen is a Doctoral Student in the

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The information needs and information seeking behaviour of family doctors: a selective literature review

Cited by 23 publications

References 14 publications

Clinical credibility and trustworthiness are key characteristics used to identify colleagues from whom to seek information

Clinical credibility and trustworthiness are key characteristics used to identify colleagues from whom to seek information

Building on models of information behaviour: linking information seeking and communication

Planning Bioinformatics Education and Information Services in an Academic Health Sciences Library

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