Effective use of health care information a review of recent research

• Main Author: Merry, Peter (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Bowker Saur 1997
• Subjects: Information services > Great Britain; Medical informatics > Great Britain; National Health Services (Great Britain); Information resources management > Great Britain
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• Physical Description: 262 pages illustration 26 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781857392302

With medical professionals now globally information-dependent even virtual surgery and dissection are available via the Internet courtesy of the US National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project, Merry (National Health Service, UK) surveys the sources, system funding, development, auditing, and impact of biomedical databases on "evidence-based" clinical practice and education in the UK, Europe, and North America. With identification of information/information technology as the priority area for improvement in a 1996 NHS white paper, the need to broaden the concept of information is evaluated (e.g. to finally include patients' experiences), as is information support for specific care areas, health management, and local communities. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.