Clinical Knowledge and Practice in the Information Age: A Handbook for Health Professionals - Softcover

Wyatt, Jeremy C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853154830 ISBN 13: 9781853154836

Publisher: Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Experienced doctors differ from inexperienced doctors primarily in the amount and kind of knowledge they possess and their skills in applying it. In the commercial sector, professional knowledge is valued as a means of improving the quality and efficiency of services. Despite widespread uptake of evidence-based health, medicine still has a long way to go to match the care and resources spent on managing knowledge in other sectors. Clinicians are bombarded with information from many different sources but are they making the best use of this rapidly expanding body of knowledge? This book helps clinicians to improve their "knowledge management activities and those of their organizations, whether in keeping up with the published work, selecting, writing and using guidelines and computer packages, or getting the most out of the Internet.

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Review:

Easy to read and obtain the necessary information, as well as being informative. -- Physiotherapy, 2002

From formulating clinical questions to decision support systems, from internet and intranet to good old fashioned textbooks, the author is thorough. -- ENT News, volume 10, no 6, Jan/Feb 2002

The book is extremely well-written, avoiding jargon and defining technical terms clearly. -- Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2002

This book describes very concisely the clinician’s information needs. -- Family Practice, Volume 19, No 2, 2002

Truly this is a good an account of where to find Evidence on which to Base Medicine as you could hope to find. -- Pharmaceutical Physician, March 02

About this edition

• Publisher: Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1853154830
• ISBN 13: 9781853154836
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 100