title: SmartQuery: context-sensitive links to medical knowledge sources from the electronic patient record.
abstract: Physicians have many unmet information needs that arise in the course of patient care. Many clinical questions could potentially be answered by streamlined access to medical literature, textbooks, and clinical guidelines in the context of the electronic medical record. We designed and implemented SmartQuery, a prototype application to provide context-sensitive links from an electronic patient record to relevant medical knowledge sources, then performed a preliminary user evaluation. Our results suggest that such an application may be clinically useful, and provide some insight into problems and priorities for future development.
authors.affiliation: Division of Medical Informatics & Outcomes Research, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
authors.forename: Susan L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Price
authors.forename: William R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Hersh
authors.forename: Daniel D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Olson
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Embi
mesh_terms: D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009862:Online Systems; D013358:Subject Headings; D014584:User-Computer Interface