Margaret's original question was slightly ambiguous - at least to
me on a Friday pm!
Are we talking evidence based information on the problem of
information overload? Or are we talking about solutions for coping
with overload by filtering for evidence based information?
If it is the former (and even if not!) list ,members will no doubt find
the following article useful:
Wilson TD. Information overload: implications for healthcare
services. Health Informatics 2001 7: 112-117.
In particular it quotes the Dying for Information study by Reuters:
+ 38% of managers surveyed waste substantial amounts of time
looking for information
+ 43% of respondents thought decisions were delayed or adversely
affected by existence of too much information
+ 47% of respondents reported being distracted from their main
tasks (as I am now by replying to this email :-) )
+ 42% reported ill-health, 61% reduced social activity, 60%
reported tiredness as a result of information overload.
I particularly liked his 6 point plan at the end of his article which
seemed to me a good recipe for KM within health organisations
(but I'll leave it to you to read that as I don't wish to overload you!).
Now I'm off to enhance my social activity for the weekend!
Andrew
Andrew Booth BA MSc Dip Lib ALA
Director of Information Resources and
Senior Lecturer - Evidence Based Healthcare Information.
School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR)
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
SHEFFIELD
S1 4DA
Tel: 0114 222 5420 or 5214 Fax: 0114 272 4095
The author of Netting the Evidence:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/netting.html
and Trawling the Net:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/trawling.html
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