Understanding nurses' information needs and searching behaviour in acute care settings.
We report the results of a pilot study designed to describe nurses' information needs and searching behaviour in acute care settings. Several studies have indicated that nurses have unmet information needs while delivering care to patients.


OBJECTIVE
Identify the information needs of nurses in acute care settings.


METHODS
Nurses at three hospitals were asked to use an information retrieval tool (CPG Viewer). A detailed log of their interactions with the tool was generated.


CONCLUSIONS
Our findings suggest that nurses' information needs are different from what is reported in the literature in terms of physicians' information needs. Questions regarding a nursing procedure or protocol were the most common needs nurses had.
Xu
Xiaomin
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Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.
Rocha
Roberto A
RA
Bigelow
Sharon M
SM
Wallace
Carrie J
CJ
Hanna
Timothy
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Roemer
Lorrie K
LK
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D046609:Libraries, Digital; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014584:User-Computer Interface