title: Health science information management. An approach to improving QA and clinical practice.
abstract: To help quality assurance (QA) professionals and clinical practitioners keep up with advances in health care knowledge and technology, we describe a prototype Health Science Information Management (HSIM) publication. We conceptualize HSIM to include: (a) identification of unique science information needs; (b) rapid retrieval of valid needed information; and (c) use the information to improve health care benefits. To more adequately accomplish these functions, we suggest that five specific categories of information will be essential: (1) reports of recent advances in Science Information Management methods; (2) original reports of Science Information Syntheses (SISs) providing information immediately applicable for QA; (3) previously published reports of "classic" SISs relevant to QA; (4) reviews of new technologies and products immediately applicable to quality management; (5) cumulative indexing of the above methods and products. Making the above information available to QA professionals might substantially improve the impact of quality management.
authors.affiliation: Salt Lake Regional Medical Education Center, Salt Lake Veterans Affairs Medical Center, UT.
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Williamson
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Reerink
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Donabedian
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Christensen
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000592:standards; D002985:Clinical Protocols / Q000592:standards; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic / Q000592:standards*; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011364:Professional Practice / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*