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Information Value and Quality for the Health Sector: A Case Study of Search Strategies for Optimal Information Retrieval

Information Value and Quality for the Health Sector: A Case Study of Search Strategies for Optimal Information Retrieval

Olívia Pestana
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781466645622|ISBN10: 1466645628|EISBN13: 9781466645639
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4562-2.ch006
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Pestana, Olívia. "Information Value and Quality for the Health Sector: A Case Study of Search Strategies for Optimal Information Retrieval." Rethinking the Conceptual Base for New Practical Applications in Information Value and Quality, edited by George Leal Jamil, et al., IGI Global, 2014, pp. 116-133. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4562-2.ch006

APA

Pestana, O. (2014). Information Value and Quality for the Health Sector: A Case Study of Search Strategies for Optimal Information Retrieval. In G. Jamil, A. Malheiro, & F. Ribeiro (Eds.), Rethinking the Conceptual Base for New Practical Applications in Information Value and Quality (pp. 116-133). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4562-2.ch006

Chicago

Pestana, Olívia. "Information Value and Quality for the Health Sector: A Case Study of Search Strategies for Optimal Information Retrieval." In Rethinking the Conceptual Base for New Practical Applications in Information Value and Quality, edited by George Leal Jamil, Armando Malheiro, and Fernanda Ribeiro, 116-133. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4562-2.ch006

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Abstract

The approaches of information value and quality can be discussed in any area of activity. The health sector is one of them, and the scientific literature has always been seen as a valuable tool in patient care. A number of studies highlight the impact of scientific literature on clinical decision-making and patient care costs. An important part of the literature in question is a result of online literature searching. The PubMed database contains over 22 million citations for biomedical literature and is widely used. The author, therefore, present its main features and review the leading studies developed to evaluate the retrieved information and to find optimal search strategies. Finally, she presents a study in the specific area of critical care, describing the strategies used by a group of doctors and the retrieval results achieved on two different occasions.

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