Health Care Providers' Information Seeking

McKnight, Michelynn; Peet, Martha

doi:10.1300/j115v19n02_03

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“…professionals 38,39 prefer information obtained through social interaction and that when these care providers are engaging in direct patient care, electronic and text-based resources are less often accessed when information is required to resolve clinical uncertainty. 40 The preference for information through social interaction as opposed to that obtained from the published literature, including research and clinical practice guidelines, should not automatically be viewed as a problem.…”

Section: Implementing the Recommendations Of Nutritional Guidelinesmentioning

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Optimizing Nutrition in Intensive Care Units: Empowering Critical Care Nurses to Be Effective Agents of Change

Marshall¹,

Cahill²,

Gramlich³

et al. 2012

American Journal of Critical Care

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Observational studies have consistently revealed wide variation in nutritional practices across intensive care units and indicated that the provision of adequate nutrition to critically ill patients is suboptimal. To date, the potential role of critical care nurses in implementing nutritional guideline recommendations and improving nutritional therapy has received little consideration. Factors that influence nurses' nutritional practices include the lack of guidelines or conflicting evidence-based recommendations pertaining to nurses' practice, strategies for implementing guidelines that are not tailored to barriers nurses face when feeding patients, strategies to communicate best evidence that do not capitalize on nurses' preference for seeking information through social interaction, prioritization of nutrition in initial and continuing nursing education, and a lack of interdisciplinary team collaboration in the intensive care unit when decisions on how to feed patients are made. Future research and quality improvement strategies are required to correct these deficits and successfully empower nurses to become nutritional champions at the bedside. Using nurses as agents of change will help standardize nutritional practices and ensure that critically ill patients are optimally fed.

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Section: Implementing the Recommendations Of Nutritional Guidelinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimizing Nutrition in Intensive Care Units: Empowering Critical Care Nurses to Be Effective Agents of Change

Marshall¹,

Cahill²,

Gramlich³

et al. 2012

American Journal of Critical Care

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“…Vehicles used to gather information include paper, computers, electronic media, and personal correspondence via telephone, fax, computer (e-mail, chat), or face-to-face conversations. In 2000, McKnight and Peet's study of health care providers' information seeking [1] found that in spite of the onset of the availability of online resources, clinicians were still using older, more traditional ways of gathering information.…”

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Investigating information-seeking behaviors of primary care physicians who care for older depressed patients and their family caregivers: a pilot study

Dorsey¹,

Detlefsen²

2005

J Can Health Libr Assoc

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Abstract:Objective -To describe preliminary findings from a study of information-seeking behaviors of primary care physicians who care for elderly and depressed patients, and the correlation between what is sought versus what is provided to the patient and (or) caregiver. Setting -Physicians in two large ambulatory primary care practices throughout urban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who take care of geriatric patients. Methods -Structured interviews, with common questions, will be conducted with 12 primary care physicians to determine patterns of information-seeking behaviors. Environmental scans of physicians' offices for evidence of their existing information behaviors will complement the information obtained from the interviews. Results -This pilot study provides an analysis of the resources primary care physicians use to seek information to provide to patients and caregivers. Analyses show types of information sought, time spent seeking information, and methods used to find information given to patients. Conclusions -With mounting evidence of the Internet being used for patient self care, it is essential to understand if primary care physicians understand the scope and breadth of information readily available to their patients. The primary care physician needs to be aware of the types of information made available to their patients and the caregivers who are inclined to obtain information for the patient.

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“…There are many practical and ethical reasons for conducting a thorough search of the literature before beginning any project or forming policy, but this is seldom done even by a well-intentioned searcher 22 – 24. One reason may be that searchers limit their queries to databases with which they are familiar 25. The procedures for conducting systematic reviews for Cochrane and Community Preventive Services include consulting multiple literature databases to find articles that meet the authors’ inclusion criteria 26 27 Table 1.…”

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Using online databases to find journal articles on injury prevention and safety promotion research: key journals and the databases that index them

Lawrence

Laflamme

2008

Inj Prev

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Health Care Providers' Information Seeking

Cited by 33 publications

References 3 publications

Optimizing Nutrition in Intensive Care Units: Empowering Critical Care Nurses to Be Effective Agents of Change

Optimizing Nutrition in Intensive Care Units: Empowering Critical Care Nurses to Be Effective Agents of Change

Investigating information-seeking behaviors of primary care physicians who care for older depressed patients and their family caregivers: a pilot study

Using online databases to find journal articles on injury prevention and safety promotion research: key journals and the databases that index them

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