Alex and Rakesh -
Thanks for bringing this up. My interest is in general adult psychiatry. I have
a related question - would be curious to know if anyone on the list has
developed a practical way to survey information needs in their own community
via a web based survey? I am thinking of applying this with psychiatry
residents to better inform my approach in teaching EBM principles.
-Best,
Vinod Srihari, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine
Staff Psychiatrist
Connecticut Mental Health Center
34 Park Street
New Haven, CT 06519
Quoting Rakesh Biswas <[log in to unmask]>:
> 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
> >
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