Unanswered clinical questions: a survey of specialists and primary care providers.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

With the myriad of cases presented to clinicians every day at our integrated academic health system, clinical questions are bound to arise. Clinicians need to recognize these knowledge gaps and act on them. However, for many reasons, clinicians might not seek answers to these questions. Our goal was to investigate the rationale and process behind these unanswered clinical questions. Subsequently, we explored the use of biomedical information resources among specialists and primary care providers and identified ways to promote more informed clinical decision making.

Methods

We conducted a survey to assess how practitioners identify and respond to information gaps, their background knowledge of search tools and strategies, and their usage of and comfort level with te

SUBMITTER: Brassil E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5234458 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature