num_pages: 262
description: With medical professionals now globally information-dependent even virtual surgery and dissection are available via the Internet courtesy of the US National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project, Merry (National Health Service, UK) surveys the sources, system funding, development, auditing, and impact of biomedical databases on "evidence-based" clinical practice and education in the UK, Europe, and North America. With identification of information/information technology as the priority area for improvement in a 1996 NHS white paper, the need to broaden the concept of information is evaluated (e.g. to finally include patients' experiences), as is information support for specific care areas, health management, and local communities. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
language: English
title: Effective Use of Health Care Information: A Review of Recent Research
titlecomplete: Effective Use of Health Care Information: A Review of Recent Research (British Library Research Series)
publisher: K G Saur Verlag Gmbh & Co