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The use of electronic tools and the information highway to facilitate knowledge transfer in primary care

Author: Michel Labrecque

Published in: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology | Special Issue 4/2010

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Access to information is essential to effective and efficient clinical practice. On one hand, clinicians must keep track of new scientific evidence relevant to their field of practice. On the other hand, encounters with patients generate questions requiring answers in order to provide adequate clinical care. The main challenge is to access truly useful information that is: 1) relevant to clinical practice, 2) scientifically valid, and 3) requires minimal efforts to find, to appraise and to decide to integrate or not into practice. [1] The Internet now allows both staying up-to-date and finding answers to clinical questions. …

Slawson DC, Shaughnessy AF: Obtaining useful information from expert based sources. Br Med J. 1997, 314: 947-9.CrossRef

Title: The use of electronic tools and the information highway to facilitate knowledge transfer in primary care
Author: Michel Labrecque
Publication date: 01-12-2010
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology / Issue Special Issue 4/2010
Electronic ISSN: 1710-1492
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1710-1492-6-S4-A5

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