title: Clinical situations and information needs of physicians during treatment of diabetes mellitus patients: a triangulation study.
abstract: Physicians should have access to the information they need to provide the most effective health care. Medical knowledge and patient-oriented information is dynamic and expanding rapidly so there is a rising risk of information overload. We investigated the information needs of physicians during treatment of Diabetes mellitus patients, using a combination of interviews, observations, literature research and analysis of recorded medical information in hospitals as part of a methodical triangulation. 446 information items were identified, structured in a set of 9 main categories each, as well as 6 time windows, 10 clinical situations and 68 brief queries. The physician's information needs as identified in this study will now be used to develop sophisticated query tools to efficiently support finding of information in an electronic health record.
authors: UMIT-University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tirol, Austria. gudrun.huebner-bloder@umit.at
authors: Gudrun
authors: G
authors: Hübner-Bloder
authors: Georg
authors: G
authors: Duftschmid
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Kohler
authors: Christoph
authors: C
authors: Rinner
authors: Samrend
authors: S
authors: Saboor
authors: Elske
authors: E
authors: Ammenwerth
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D000465:Algorithms; D003657:Decision Making; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management / Q000639:trends*; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D013997:Time Factors; D014584:User-Computer Interface