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Thanks Alex, I am very much interested in the information needs of health carers(and patients) and am myself doing a personal review of my own information needs during my daily ward rounds or OPD consults (once a week). There is a detailed article by Smith et al on the same in BMJ(1995) and I suppose you would have gone through it and would also know of recent reviews. I recieve quite a few requests from my colleagues and patients (mostly) for advice via emails that reflect their information needs and I myself interact via email with my colleagues when I need any information/advice from them. However all this is a one person prospective data (collected in the gmail box). I wonder if we can pool the data all of us health carers have (in our email boxes?) in this list or elsewhere and analyse them looking for themes and theories that may portray present global health care information needs? Rakesh Biswas Rakesh Biswas MD Associate professor, Department of Medicine, Melaka-Manipal Medical College 75150 Melaka, Malaysia Phone: 60-6-2925851-extn 1151 (office) and 2001 (residence) Fax: 60-6-2817977/60-6-2925852 Mobile: 60-16-6434253 Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.manipal.edu/melaka/departments/departments.htm On 11/19/06, Alex Maina, Kenya <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hello Everyone > > I am Alex Maina Mwangi, Librarian at KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Programme - > Centre for Geographic Medicine Research Coast. My main areas of interest > are E-Health, Health Information databases as well as Evidence Based > Medicine (EBM). > > I propose that we approach HIFA2015 systematically so as to avoid failure. > I am currently doing a literature review on the information needs of > primary health care providers (Medical officers, nurses etc), with the aim > of initiating a study on what information is needed by this group. > > Anyone out there with the same interests?? > > Many Thanks > > Alex Maina > > Librarian > Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Programme > Centre for Geographic Medicine Research Coast > PO BOX 230,80108 > Kilifi > Kenya > > HIFA2015 profile: Alex Maina is Librarian at the Kenya Medical Research > Institute-Wellcome Trust, Kilifi, Kenya. [log in to unmask] > > ************************************************* > THE HIFA2015 GOAL: By 2015, every person worldwide will have access to an > informed healthcare provider. Join HIFA2015: Send your name, organization > and brief description of interests to [log in to unmask] > HIFA2015 email group website: www.dgroups.org/groups/hifa2015 > Further info on HIFA2015: www.ghi-net.org/campaign >