Understanding the nature of information seeking behavior in critical care: Implications for the design of health information technology

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-29

  Kannampallil, Thomas G ^a   Franklin, Amy ^b   Mishra, Rashmi ^c   Almoosa, Khalid F ^d   Cohen, Trevor ^b   Patel, Vimla L ^a  

^a NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Critical care; Distributed cognition; Information seeking; Knowledge organization

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; CRITICAL CARE; DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; INFORMATION SEEKING; KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION;

DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL STORAGE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION USE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; ITERATIVE METHODS; RECORDS MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COGNITION; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THINKING;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PHYSICIANS; TIME FACTORS; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84875251123     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: 18732860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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