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PubMed1993

Work, knowledge and argument in specialist consultations: incorporating tacit knowledge into system design and development.

To understand how video telephone technology could support consultations between pathologists and surgeons, this study looked at what constitutes 'work' in clinical consultations. Using several methods (participant observation, video and interviews), we found pathologists and surgeons both share and do not share similar understandings of what a consultation is, what one should achieve in a consultation, and what in fact constitutes a 'successful' consultation. Furthermore, the same objects of consultation (the products of 'offstage' work) can be used and defined quite differently depending on how a consultation is framed. Differences and disjunctions like these have to be better understood if computer-supported cooperative healthcare work (CSCHW) applications are to be adopted and accepted.

Communication↗
PubMed2004

Bridging the gap between therapeutic research results and physician prescribing decisions: knowledge transfer, a prerequisite to knowledge translation.

BACKGROUND: A wide gap continues to exist between available therapeutic research results and physician's prescribing. Numerous explanations account for this gap, but one central reason is the difficulty in transferring comprehensive research information to practicing clinicians. This problem arises from information overload and the growing complexity of research findings. We propose a multistep process that can be used to develop systems to bridge this information/prescription gap. The steps include: comprehensively collecting and summarizing clinical trial reports, scoring and ranking these according to their level of evidence, exploring and synthesizing the data using meta-analyses, summarizing these results, representing them in an easily understandable form, and transmitting the overview findings to prescribers at the time they need them. DISCUSSION: This ambitious endeavor is needed to ensure that prescribers have access to pertinent research results for use in their prescription decisions. We demonstrate in this article that there are no theoretical or technical obstacles to make the proposed system workable.

Clinical Competence↗