Clinician information activities in diverse ambulatory care practices.
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.
Tang
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PC
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Jaworski
M A
MA
Fellencer
C A
CA
Kreider
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N
LaRosa
M P
MP
Marquardt
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WC
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