Online on-the-spot searching increases use of evidence during consultations in family practice

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-65

  Van Duppen, Dirk ^a   Aertgeerts, Bert ^b,c   Hannes, Karin ^c   Neirinckx, Jasna ^a   Seuntjens, Lieve ^a   Goossens, Filip ^a   Van Linden, Annelies ^a  

^a Group Practice 'Doctors for the People'   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Belgian Branch of the Cochrane Collaboration   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; General practice; Implementation strategy; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BELGIUM; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY PRACTICE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34547417511     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2007.04.008     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Sackett D.L., Sharon E.S., Richardson W.S., Rosenberg W., and Haynes R.B. Evidence-based medicine: how to practice and teach EBM. 2nd ed. (2000), Churchill Livingston
2. Eccles M., McColl E., Steen N., Rousseau N., Grimshaw J., Parkin D., and Purves I. Effect of computerised evidence based guidelines on management of asthma and angina in adults in primary care: cluster randomised controlled trial. Brit Med J 325 (2002) 941-947
3. Flottorp S., and Oxman A.D. Identifying barriers and tailoring interventions to improve the management of urinary tract infections and sore throat: a pragmatic study using qualitative methods. BMC Health Serv Res 3 (2003) 3-12
4. Grol R., and Jones R. Twenty years of implementation research. Fam Pract 17 (2000) 32-35
5. Barton S. Using clinical evidence. Brit Med J 322 (2001) 503-504
6. McColl A., Smith H., White P., and Field J. General practitioners' perceptions of the route to evidence-based medicine: a questionnaire survey. Brit Med J 316 (1998) 361-365
7. Smith R. What clinical information do doctors need?. Brit Med J 313 (1996) 1062-1068
8. Sackett D.L., and Strauss S.E. Finding and applying evidence during clinical rounds: "the evidence cart". J Am Med Assoc 280 (1998) 1336-1338
9. Lapinsky S.E., Wax R., Showalter R., Martinez-Motta J.C., Hallett D., Mehta S., Burry L., and Stewart T.E. Prospective evaluation of an internet-linked handheld computer critical care knowledge access system. Crit Care 8 (2004) R414-R421
10. Pluye P., Grad R.M., Dunikowski L.G., and Stephenson R. Impact of clinical information-retrieval technology on physicians: a literature review of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods studies. Int J Med Inform 74 (2005) 745-768
11. Coumou H.C.H., and Meijman F.J. How do primary care physicians seek answers to clinical questions? A literature review. J Med Libr Assoc 94 (2006) 55-60
12. Magrabi F., Coiera E.W., Westbrook J.I., Gosling A.S., and Vickland V. General practitioners' use of online evidence during consultations. Int J Med Inform 74 (2005) 1-12
13. Shaughnessy A.F., Slawson D.C., and Bennett J.H. Becoming an information master: a guidebook to the medical information jungle. J Fam Practice 39 (1994) 489-499
14. Slawson D.C., and Shaughnessy A.F. Teaching evidence-based medicine: should we be teaching information management instead?. Acad Med 80 (2005) 685-689
15. Ely J.W., Osheroff J.A., Chambliss M.L., Ebell M.H., and Rosenbaum M.E. J Am Med Inform Assn 12 (2005) 217-224
16. Sullivan F., and Mitchell E. Has general practitioner computing made a difference to patient care? A systematic review of published reports. Brit Med J 311 (1995) 848-852
17. Mitchell E., and Sullivan F. A descriptive feast but an evaluative famine: systematic review of published articles on primary care computing during 1980-1997. Brit Med J 322 (2001) 279-282