Understanding Healthcare Information.
Analyses the domain of healthcare information, its organizational structures and history, and the nature of its resources and the drivers for change affecting them. This title looks at examples of healthcare information resources from the perspective of different user groups, including healthcare pr...
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| Language: | English |
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Facet Publishing,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Title page; Contents; Acronyms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The healthcare information domain; Introduction; Nature of the discipline; Nature of healthcare knowledge; Structures and institutions; Drivers for change; Conclusion; Notes; References; Further reading; 2 History of healthcare and its information environment; Introduction; The ancient world; The classical world; The medieval world; Renaissance and Enlightenment; The 19th century to the present day; Conclusion; References; Further reading; 3 Producers and users of healthcare information; Introduction.
- Producers of healthcare informationUsers of healthcare information; Conclusion; References; Further reading; 4 Healthcare information organization; Introduction; Organizing healthcare information: overview; Dictionaries and glossaries; Classifications and taxonomies; Subject headings and thesauri; Meta-vocabularies; Abstracting and indexing of healthcare information; Conclusion; Notes; References; Further reading; 5 Healthcare information sources, services and retrieval; Introduction; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Tertiary sources; Quaternary sources; Conclusion; Notes; References.
- Further reading6 Healthcare information and knowledge management; Introduction; Healthcare libraries and information services; Managing healthcare information; Providing healthcare information; Standards, evaluation and impact; Conclusion; Notes; References; Further reading; Afterword; Keeping up to date; Note; Index.