The objective of this study was to find out more about the information needs of doctors-in-training and to identify their preferred sources of information. The methodology included interviews with consultants and administrators, a focus group discussion with library staff and a postal questionnaire sent to 347 doctors-in-training (there was a ...

The information technology revolution has transformed work from modest-paced serial processes to complex, fast-paced networked ones that depend not only on the technology but also on skilled and effective users of the technology. This evolution has woven a complex quilt of interdependencies among new information technologies, new users of those ...

A new theory on consciousness is presented. According to our neuroscientific model, focal awareness is the result of neurophysiological patterns of voluntary or involuntary information, registration, storage and retrieval performed in accordance with organismic biphasal homeostatic rules and regulations that follow the demand-supply principle. The information-processing operation consists of three ...

OBJECTIVE: Unless clinicians are forced by funds providers to use outcomes measures, clinicians will choose to use them only if the value they provide is commensurate with the administration time required. This study was designed to determine which aspects of outcomes measures encouraged clinicians to use them and which aspects ...

By now most, if not all, of us are familiar with the Internet. We can use it to send messages to our friends and business associates. We can send attached data files to those who need the information. We can download updates to our software or get new programs. We ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of informal cooperative learning and the affiliation motive on achievement, attitude, and student interactions. Participants classified as high or low need for affiliation used either an informal cooperative learning strategy or an individual strategy while receiving information, examples, practice and ...

CONTEXT: Women with newly diagnosed breast cancer seek answers to many questions about their disease, treatment options, and prognosis. Failure to meet these needs may cause dissatisfaction with the care process. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of a support and information program for women with newly diagnosed breast cancer. INTERVENTION: ...

Quality assurance techniques used in software development and hardware maintenance/reliability help ensure that data in a computerized information management system are maintained well. However, information workers may not know the quality of data resident in their information systems. Knowledge of the quality of information and data in an enterprise provides ...

Programmed chemical systems rest on the structural information stored in a molecular framework and on its reading and processing through non-covalent interactional algorithms to yield specific supramolecular entities. Beyond single-code self-assembly, which generates exclusively a single, specific superstructure, several codes may be implemented in the same overall program, thus opening ...

One way to build knowledge in nursing is to share research findings or clinical program outcomes. The dissemination of these findings is often a difficult final step in a project that has taken months or years to complete. One method of sharing findings in a relaxed and informal setting is ...

This case study demonstrates both the positive and the negative aspects of developing a stand-alone database for use by a small unit of a larger organization. The advantages center on the ability to tailor the program to the requirements of a single unit. The disadvantages relate to the inability to ...

Information economics offers insights into the dynamics of information across networked systems like the Internet. An information marketplace is different from other marketplaces because an information good is not actually consumed and can be reproduced and distributed at almost no cost. For information producers to remain profitable, they will need ...

PURPOSE: To investigate information needs and information seeking in primary care practices serving as educational sites. METHOD: The authors interviewed 15 community-based primary care physician-preceptors, once when the preceptor was working without a student and once when a student was present at the practice (in which case, the student was ...

The limited resources of developing countries are forcing them to search for different options to keep up with the accelerating pace of research into genetic medicine. In Mexico, one such option is the Mexican Network of Molecular Biomedicine (MNMB). With the Internet as a means of communication and a source ...

As the technology of picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) improves and implementation becomes more widespread, the project management of deploying substantially large, multiple-facility systems becomes an integral part of success. A successful deployment requires project support from the initial planning and surveying to the final acceptance, even encompassing support ...

To investigate the preferences for numerical information of 157 tenth grade students (M = 16.1 yr.) in the United Arab Emirates, an Arabic translation of a questionnaire of Viswanathan developed, validated, and moderately stable over time was administered. Analysis indicated the preferences of Arab students for numerical information was positive. ...

Managers of provider organizations who understand HMOs' motivations and negotiating strategies will be better prepared to negotiate contracts that serve the interests of their organizations. Information that may strengthen a provider's negotiating position with an HMO, such as the HMO's historic and projected general administrative costs, inflation factors, and utilization ...

A recent survey examined the impact of reimbursement policies and admitting privileges on the ability of certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) to practice and maintain an income. Many CNMs reported deficits in their knowledge about reimbursement issues. The responses to the survey indicated that service directors either do not view this information ...

The vision of integrating information-from a variety of sources, into the way people work, to improve decisions and process-is one of the cornerstones of biomedical informatics. Thoughts on how this vision might be realized have evolved as improvements in information and communication technologies, together with discoveries in biomedical informatics, and ...

What we do is determined by the way we "view" a complex issue and what sample of issues or events we choose to deal with. In this paper, a model based on a communal, cultural, or people-centered worldview, informed by a subjective epistemology and a holistic ontology, is considered. Definitions ...

Good quality referral information provides hospice staff with essential information at a time when patients are particularly vulnerable. An Ideal Referral Criteria tool for measuring the quality of general practitioners' information was piloted at one hospice site. Overall inter-rater reliability was 90%, with individual categories ranging from 19% to 34%. ...

The rise in Internet access has a number of implications for surgeons, both in terms of their personal use of information and in the accessibility of surgical information to their hospitals and patients. This article outlines some of the opportunities offered by the development of new ways to access information, ...

This paper provides an overview of the New Immigrant Survey Pilot (NIS-P), a panel survey of a nationally representative sample of new legal immigrants to the United States based on probability samples of administrative records of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The NIS-P links survey information about immigrants' ...

WWW-based Continuing Medical Education (CME) is assumed to have the potential to make up for shortcomings in traditional lifelong learning of General Practitioners (GPs). This is obvious for CME systems with accreditation and control of the individual GP's CME activities but seems less clear for non-controlled CME systems like in ...

Clinical governance requires three main types of information--guidelines, policies and treatment options for clinicians and patients; information about the care given; and information about how the systems work. There are other key issues which impact on the above--legal issues, national standards, sophisticated analytical tools and packages and the requisite training ...

This is the biennial update listing directories, journal articles, Web sites, and general books that aid the librarian, house officer, or medical student in finding information on medical residency and fellowship programs. The World Wide Web has surpassed print resources as the most current and complete location of information about ...

This study examined the discussion of information among mixed-status clinical teams while constructing differential diagnoses. Twenty-four ad hoc teams, each consisting of a resident, an intern, and a third-year medical student, were given two hypothetical patient cases to discuss and diagnose. Prior to discussion, team members individually viewed different versions ...

Aquarium fish are one of the most popular pets in the United States. Understanding the use of chemotherapeutics in these animals has increased markedly in recent years, and this information is now readily accessible to the private practitioner in this article. The authors introduce the veterinary clinician to the commonly ...

Potential students need to make informed choices when undertaking further study. Potential students should access different sorts of information regarding the institution of their choice. Potential students need to be aware of how service needs influence the choices available. Potential students should have a clear idea of what they are ...

Mastery of computer technology and the resources it brings to renal dietitians will be essential for future practice. The Internet, probably the most valuable resource computers bring to clinical practice, is a potential tool to fulfill goals of lifelong learning. A basic introduction to the Internet and a review of ...

Exposure to technologies is becoming more prevalent in healthcare technologies. Few strategies have been developed that work reliably to successfully implement information technologies. Information technology enables, but does not guarantee organizational change. A theoretical model has been developed identifying several areas that have been found important in information technology implementation. ...

OBJECTIVE: To examine medical students' communication skills and competence regarding informed consent during an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE). METHOD: At the University of Toronto, 22 candidates wrote MCCQE part II as a prerequisite for medical licensure. The candidates' performance at one station involving informed consent was assessed using binary ...

The author investigated the manner in which individuals with different identity styles evaluate information relevant to a trait hypothesis-testing task. Identity style refers to how individuals seek, process, evaluate, and use self-relevant information. In a sample of U.S. college students, the participants with normative identity styles displayed confirmatory biases that ...

The past two decades have greatly improved our knowledge of vertebrate skeletal morphogenesis. It is now clear that bony morphology lacks individual descriptive specification and instead results from an interplay between positional information assigned during early limb bud deployment and its "execution" by highly conserved cellular response programs of derived ...

Richard T. West, IAIMS (Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems) Program Officer at the National Library of Medicine for 13 years, reflects on the origin, development, effectiveness, and future of IAIMS efforts. He dwells on the changes that have taken place as the concept of IAIMS has evolved from a technology-based ...

The monthly and yearly productivity summaries were developed and applied to a computer spreadsheet to aid the nurse manager in better understanding and communicating budget issues for diverse ambulatory care departments. A computerized spreadsheet using a commercially available personal computer program, such as Lotus, Quattro Pro, or Excel, can be ...

The WWW has an almost unlimited amount of information stored and available to users. There is already much information pertaining to the specialty of dermatology but relatively little information specific to veterinary dermatology. The amount of information placed on the web continues to increase, so familiarity with the web is ...

A yoked control training procedure was used on the decapitated cockroach, L. maderae. The right prothoracic leg was trained to lift in order to avoid a shock. It was found that this information transferred via the two interganglionic connectives from the first or prothoracic ganglion (T1) to the second or ...

Recently, the World Wide Web has emerged as a platform for computer-based oral health records. Web-based patient records can make teledentistry an instant reality. Because an increasing number of dental care providers can access Web pages, traditional barriers to exchanging information are dropping. Web-based records also make cumulative, longitudinal patient ...

Adopting a new technique is a decision often made based on limited information and is a serious undertaking with potentially profound implications. Each surgeon has a professional and ethical obligation to scrutinize a new technology personally before embracing it. This article reviews certain factors that every surgeon should consider before ...

Employment interviewing as we know it today is an essential process but one fraught with potential traps and legal pitfalls. Overall, it is a far-from-perfect means of selecting employees, but it the best such means available. Effective interviewing requires thorough preparation, including knowledge of how to seek out the most ...

The paper outlines the quality control issues that arise in the implementation of a Web site which delivers biomedical information. At the heart of this study is the need for a methodology to guarantee that the information contained in the site is viable and accurate from both an informatic and ...

We have used internet-standard tools to provide access for clinicians to the components of the electronic patient record held on multiple remote disparate systems. Through the same interface we have provided access to multiple knowledgebases, some written locally and others published elsewhere. We have developed linkage between these two types ...

The learning needs of General Practitioners (GPs) are not optimally covered by traditional ways of Continuing Medical Education (CME). The European-funded Post-Doc project sets up a model for a European internet-based infra-structure and learning environment to support GPs' individual CME activities, focusing on problems of daily work. It integrates education, ...

Recently, there has been much effort in making databases for molecular biology more accessible and interoperable. However, information in text form, such as MEDLINE records, remains a greatly underutilized source of biological information. We have begun a research effort aimed at automatically mapping information from text sources into structured representations, ...

OBJECTIVE: Capnography is an effective means of monitoring cardiopulmonary resuscitation and managing endotracheal intubation. Numerous studies have validated its use in urban settings, but none have described its integration into a rural EMS system. The authors describe the process of integrating capnography training and use in Jackson County, West Virginia. ...

Automatic access to information regarding macromolecular binding relationships would provide a valuable resource to the biomedical community. We report on a pilot project to mine such information from the molecular biology literature. The program being developed takes advantage of natural language processing techniques and is supported by two repositories of ...

Traditional implementation of clinical information systems follows a predictable project management process. The selection, development, implementation, and evaluation of the system and the project management aspects of those phases require considerable time and effort. The purpose of this paper is to describe the beta site implementation of a knowledge-based clinical ...

The actions of Taiwan government for promoting information education have being carried out since 1996. The main goal is to educate students of primary school and high school about the basic information knowledge and the internet. The actual actions will be described. There are many kind of multimedia CD titles ...

Information quality, considered abstractly, may seem to be a relatively straightforward matter. Information should be accurate, up to date, useful, and attributable to reputable sources. However, determining the quality of a specific piece of information for a specific use is a more complicated process. The concept of applied information quality ...