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- Title
What research studies do practitioners actually find useful?
- Authors
Booth, Andrew
- Abstract
As a relatively recent paradigm, evidence-based information practice requires development at all stages of its cycle. Work to date has targeted such aspects as the questions practitioners consider important, the characteristics of the published evidence base and the use of tailored appraisal checklists. Perhaps, as a consequence, the application and use of research in health information practice has received correspondingly little attention. The perceived applicability of research is very subjective, being determined by such factors as the setting and nature of the reader's current service, external environmental factors, planned future developments and whether the hosting body is a learning organization. Additional moderating variables relate to the personal characteristics of individuals themselves. Much research that appears in the health information literature, and by far the largest proportion of research published in the library and information literature in general, falls into the category of research for general enlightenment. Examples in this category from the health information literature include general health service librarians reading about methods of conducting systematic reviews or reading about clinical librarianship.
- Subjects
RESEARCH; MEDICAL care; INFORMATION services; LIBRARIANS; PUBLIC health; METHODOLOGY
- Publication
Health Information & Libraries Journal, 2004, Vol 21, Issue 3, p197
- ISSN
1471-1834
- Publication type
Other
- DOI
10.1111/j.1471-1842.2004.00527.x