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- Title
What is the role of the librarian in 21st century Healthcare?
- Authors
Brice, Anne; Muir Gray, J. A.
- Abstract
Knowledge is the enemy of disease. The application of the knowledge that already exists can prevent and reduce seven major healthcare problems observable in every system, namely — unknowing variations in policy and practice, waste, errors, poor quality clinical care, poor patient experience, the over-enthusiastic adoption of interventions of low value and the failure to implement interventions of high value. To tackle these global problems, all three types of knowledge have to be mobilized and utilized — knowledge derived from research, sometimes called evidence, knowledge derived from routinely collected or audit data, sometimes called statistics and knowledge derived from experience. The part that knowledge can play in improving healthcare systems has been recognized for a number of years. However, healthcare is delivered not only through systems but also through consultations and clinical decisions. The estimate used in the planning of the National Electronic Library for Health is that there are about 20000 consultations and 100000 clinical decisions per million population per day.
- Subjects
MEDICAL libraries; MEDICAL librarians; MEDICAL care; MEDICAL records; MEDICAL informatics; MEDICAL information storage &; retrieval systems
- Publication
Health Information & Libraries Journal, 2004, Vol 21, Issue 2, p81
- ISSN
1471-1834
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1111/j.1471-1842.2004.00493.x