title: Information retrieval for patient care.
abstract: Doctors need clinical information during most consultations with patients, and much of this need could be satisfied by material from online sources. Advances in data communication technologies mean that multimedia information can be transported rapidly to various clinical care locations. However, selecting the few items of information likely to be useful in a particular clinical situation from the mass of information available is a major problem. Current information retrieval systems are designed primarily for use in research rather than clinical care. The design, implementation, and critical evaluation of new information retrieval systems for clinical care should be guided by knowledgeable clinical users.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. martin@dcs.gla.ac.uk
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gardner
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D016208:Databases, Factual; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007256:Information Systems; D010347:Patient Care Planning