Medical Information Science

Lincoln, Thomas

doi:10.1001/jama.1983.03330290032024

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“…A major limitation to the utilization of computer information sources in practice is the lack of• widespread physician acceptance of commercially available systems [16]. Postulated reasons for this lack of acceptance are many and include the absence of computer training in college andlor medical school, a reluctance to change habits on the part of health professionals (the personality and psychology of the individual users), the rigidity and complexity of computer systems, time limitations, health professionals' pride and perceived threat of computer systems to their domain, databases which do not exceed the health professional's own capabilities, a lack of data demonstrating a significant impact on patient care, and the development of systems that are not readily transferred from one location to another [17][18][19][20][21][22]. As a result, many previously developed computer systems have been abandoned [19,22].…”

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Analysis of Physicians’, Pharmacists’, and Nurses’ Attitudes Toward the Use of Computers to Access Drug Information

Shumway

Jacknowitz²,

Abate³

1990

Methods Inf Med

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The appropriate utilization of computerized drug information systems is widely recognized as an area of concern by health care professionals. For this reason, attitudes of health care professionals in office-based practices toward computer-based drug information were examined. Sixty individuals in five different practice settings completed an attitude instrument. Of the 36 items categorized into five attitudinal categories, the answers to six items (in three distinct categories) were found to be statistically different among physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. These differences indicate that physicians and nurses are less knowledgeable about the benefits that can be obtained through the use of computerized information resources and, consequently, are more skeptical concerning the role of computer information systems in reducing the costs and improving the quality of health care. Of interest as well was the finding that pharmacists felt more strongly than physicians and nurses that computer information systems would readily fit into their daily work routine.

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