Is Your Signal to Noise Ratio Improving? Keeping Up Amidst Information That Keeps On Coming

[...]the quality of care we provide tends to become suboptimal and the cost of care increases. Large gaps exist between best evidence and practice in the implementation of guidelines. 15 Failure to follow best evidence highlights issues of underuse, overuse, and misuse of drugs16 and has led to wide...

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Published in:The Psychiatric times 2012-05, Vol.29 (5), p.15
Main Author: Saeed, Sy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical medicine
Ethics
Health care
Lifelong learning
Magnetic tape
Mental disorders
Mental health
Methods
Physicians
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Summary:[...]the quality of care we provide tends to become suboptimal and the cost of care increases. Large gaps exist between best evidence and practice in the implementation of guidelines. 15 Failure to follow best evidence highlights issues of underuse, overuse, and misuse of drugs16 and has led to widespread interest in the safety of patients.\n These efforts have included educational strategies to alter practice behavior and interventions at the organizational and administrative levels.20,21 The Medical Informatics Panel of the Medical School Objectives Project of the Association of American Medical Colleges identified the following 5 major roles played by physicians in the area of medical informatics: lifelong learner, clinician, educator-communicator, researcher, and manager.11 This report further states that to successfully perform as a lifelong learner, a physician must be able to demonstrate competence in many areas, including knowledge of the information resources and tools available to support lifelong learning; ability to retrieve, filter, evaluate, and reconcile information; and attitudes that support the effective use of information technology.
ISSN:0893-2905