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Kenrick D Cato1, Suzanne Bakken
1School of Nursing and.
Abstract:
This study examined the information needs of nurses using a Clinical Information System (CIS) to review medications that they have to administer for their shift. In a laboratory setting, nurses were asked to follow a speak-aloud protocol while reviewing a scripted medication list. We coded the nurses' information seeking behavior utilizing a previously described framework. Our findings suggest that 1) nurses predominately look through physician notes to gather clues in answering medication-related information needs and 2) nurses often leave the CIS to search other computerized sources for information about unfamiliar medications.
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