title: Knowledge management in pediatric pain: mapping on-line expert discussions to medical literature.
abstract: Clinical decision-making can be vastly improved with the availability of the right medical knowledge at the right time. This concept paper presents a knowledge management re-search program to (a) identify, capture and organize the tacit knowledge inherent within on-line problem-solving discussions between pediatric pain practitioners; (b) establish linkages between topic-specific pediatric pain discussions and corresponding published medical literature on children's pain available at PubMed--i.e. linking tacit expert knowledge to explicit medical literature; and (c) make these knowledge re-sources available to pediatric pain practitioners via the WWW for timely access to various modalities of clinical knowledge.
authors.affiliation: Health Infomatics Lab, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 1W5, Canada. sraza@cs.dal.ca
authors.forename: Syed Sibte Raza
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Abidi
authors.forename: Allen
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Finley
authors.forename: Evangelos
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Milios
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shepherd
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zitner
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D002648:Child; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D046650:Medical Subject Headings; D009862:Online Systems / Q000458:organization & administration; D059408:Pain Management; D039781:PubMed; D018511:Systems Integration