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Scenario-based assessment of physicians' information needs.

Yoon-Ho Seol1, David R Kaufman, Eneida A Mendonça

  • 1Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 622 West 168th Street, VC-5, New York, NY 10032, USA. seol@dbmi.columbia.edu

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
|September 14, 2004
PubMed
Summary

Physicians frequently need medical information during patient care. Analyzing their clinical questions reveals distinct patterns, aiding the development of better digital information retrieval systems.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Informatics
  • Information Retrieval
  • Clinical Practice

Background:

  • Physicians regularly encounter information needs during clinical practice.
  • Analyzing physicians' questions is a key method for understanding these information needs.
  • Previous research highlights the importance of addressing physicians' information gaps.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the characteristics of physicians' information needs.
  • To provide insights for developing a conceptual guidance approach in information retrieval.
  • To identify patterns in clinical questions to improve information access.

Main Methods:

  • Collected and analyzed clinical questions posed by physicians reviewing cases.
  • Focused on categorizing questions by type, search context, and patterns.

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  • Examined the relationship between question characteristics and clinical scenarios.

    • Main Results:

    • Physicians' information needs showed distinct characteristics based on clinical scenarios.
    • A relatively small number of question patterns were identified.
    • The analysis confirmed the feasibility of using need patterns for information retrieval.

    Conclusions:

    • Understanding physicians' information needs requires scenario-specific analysis.
    • Identifying question patterns can significantly enhance digital information access.
    • This study supports a pattern-based approach to guide physicians to relevant medical information.