J Med Libr Assoc. 2013 Jan;101(1):26-31. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.101.1.005.
The research studied whether a clinician's preference for online health knowledge resources varied with the use of two applications that were designed for information retrieval in an academic hospital setting.
The researchers analyzed a year's worth of computer log files to study differences in the ways that four clinician groups (attending physicians, housestaff physicians, nurse practitioners, and nurses) sought information using two types of information retrieval applications (health resource links or Infobutton icons) across nine resources while they reviewed patients' laboratory results.
From a set of 14,979 observations, the authors found statistically significant differences among the 4 clinician groups for accessing resources using the health resources application (P<0.001) but not for the Infobuttons application (P = 0.31). For the health resources application, the preferences of the 4 clinical groups varied according to the specific resources examined (all P≤0.02).
The information-seeking behavior of clinicians may vary in relation to their role and the way in which the information is presented. Studying these behaviors can provide valuable insights to those tasked with maintaining information retrieval systems' links to appropriate online knowledge resources.
本研究旨在探讨临床医生对在线健康知识资源的偏好是否因在学术医院环境中设计用于信息检索的两种应用程序的使用而有所不同。
研究人员分析了一年的计算机日志文件，以研究四个临床医生群体（主治医生、住院医生、护士从业者和护士）在查看患者实验室结果时，使用两种信息检索应用程序（健康资源链接或 Infobutton 图标）在九个资源中搜索信息的方式存在的差异。
在 14979 次观察中，作者发现使用健康资源应用程序访问资源时，四个临床医生群体之间存在统计学显著差异（P<0.001），但使用 Infobutton 应用程序时则没有差异（P=0.31）。对于健康资源应用程序，四个临床群体的偏好根据所检查的特定资源而有所不同（均 P≤0.02）。
临床医生的信息搜索行为可能因其角色和信息呈现方式而异。研究这些行为可以为那些负责维护信息检索系统与适当在线知识资源链接的人提供有价值的见解。
