Knowledge management in pediatric pain: mapping on-line expert discussions to medical literature.
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.
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Syed Sibte Raza
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Health Infomatics Lab, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 1W5, Canada. sraza@cs.dal.ca
Finley
Allen
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Milios
Evangelos
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Shepherd
Michael
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Zitner
David
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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