title: Clinician information activities in diverse ambulatory care practices.
abstract: Ambulatory care is assuming an increasing role in health-care delivery. Yet, most health-care information systems were developed for the acute-care setting. To address the needs of ambulatory care, developers need a comprehensive understanding of the information-related activities of clinicians in heterogeneous outpatient practices. We studied the information activities of clinicians in seven diverse (primary-care, specialty-care, faculty, and independent private practices) ambulatory care sites. The results of our study allow us to characterize clinicians' information-related activities, their perceived information needs, and their satisfaction with computer resources. Developers of health-care information systems can use the results to design applications for clinicians in ambulatory care.
authors.affiliation: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Jaworski
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Fellencer
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kreider
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: LaRosa
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Marquardt
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D000555:Ambulatory Care Information Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D015510:Clinical Medicine; D003197:Computer Literacy; D003199:Computer Systems; D003625:Data Collection; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D014481:United States