SynthesisJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2019
Barriers and facilitators to clinical information seeking: a systematic review.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Physiotherapists' Use of Web-Based Information Resources to Fulfill Their Information Needs During a Theoretical Examination: Randomized Crossover Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Trial
- Research Paradigm Mismatch: How Patients and Health Care Professionals Seek Health-Related Information Online.The Permanente journal · 2026Article
- Why Do Healthcare Gaps Persist Despite Strong Evidence? A Proposed Conceptual Framework for Real-World Implementation.Global journal on quality and safety in healthcare · 2026Article
- Physician experiences with clinical uncertainty in the trauma setting: making clinical guidance accessible to those in need.Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2026Article
- The feasibility of integrating an alcohol screening clinical decision support tool into primary care clinical software: a review and Australian key stakeholder study.BMC primary care · 2024Review
- Information-seeking behaviour of primary care clinicians in Singapore at the point-of-care: A qualitative study.Health information and libraries journal · 2024Article
- Identifying primary care clinicians' preferences for, barriers to, and facilitators of information-seeking in clinical practice in Singapore: a qualitative study.BMC primary care · 2024Article
- Modelling of physicians' clinical information-seeking behaviour in Iran: a grounded theory study.BMJ open · 2024Article
- 170 years of data-mining: history and future.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2024Article
- Exploring the Information Sources Consulted by Doctors at the Point of Care in Four Selected South African Referral Hospitals.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Examining primary care provider experiences with using a clinical decision support tool for pain management.JAMIA open · 2023Article
- Efficacy and efficiency of information retrieval of community family physicians at the point of care: exploring the associations with information and computer literacy.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2023Article
- Designing for digital transformation of residency education - a post-pandemic pedagogical response.BMC medical education · 2023Article
- Locating Medical Information during an Infodemic: Information Seeking Behavior and Strategies of Health-Care Workers in Germany.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Performance of a Web-Based Reference Database With Natural Language Searching Capabilities: Usability Evaluation of DynaMed and Micromedex With Watson.JMIR human factors · 2023Article
- Electronic Health Records' Support for Primary Care Physicians' Situation Awareness: A Metanarrative Review.Human factors · 2023Review
- Effective web-based clinical practice guidelines resources: recommendations from a mixed methods usability study.BMC primary care · 2023Article
- Doctor! Did you Google my symptoms? A qualitative study of patient perceptions of doctors' point-of-care information seeking.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Artificial intelligence behind the scenes: PubMed's Best Match algorithm.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe study sought to identify barriers to and facilitators of point-of-care information seeking and use of knowledge resources. MATERIALS AND
methodsWe searched MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, and Cochrane Library from 1991 to February 2017. We included qualitative studies in any language exploring barriers to and facilitators of point-of-care information seeking or use of electronic knowledge resources. Two authors independently extracted data on users, study design, and study quality. We inductively identified specific barriers or facilitators and from these synthesized a model of key determinants of information-seeking behaviors.
resultsForty-five qualitative studies were included, reporting data derived from interviews (n = 26), focus groups (n = 21), ethnographies (n = 6), logs (n = 4), and usability studies (n = 2). Most studies were performed within the context of general medicine (n = 28) or medical specialties (n = 13). We inductively identified 58 specific barriers and facilitators and then created a model reflecting 5 key determinants of information-seeking behaviors: time includes subthemes of time availability, efficiency of information seeking, and urgency of information need; accessibility includes subthemes of hardware access, hardware speed, hardware portability, information restriction, and cost of resources; personal skills and attitudes includes subthemes of computer literacy, information-seeking skills, and contextual attitudes about information seeking; institutional attitudes, cultures, and policies includes subthemes describing external individual and institutional information-seeking influences; and knowledge resource features includes subthemes describing information-seeking efficiency, information content, information organization, resource familiarity, information credibility, information currency, workflow integration, compatibility of recommendations with local processes, and patient educational support.
conclusionsAddressing these determinants of information-seeking behaviors may facilitate clinicians' question answering to improve patient care.
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