Understanding healthcare information / Lyn Robinson.
In an age of internet resource guides, which suffer from the malaise of being outdated before they are published, this much-needed publication addresses the information chain in its entirety, offering a timeless method of understanding healthcare information resources. The author takes a holistic ap...
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2010.
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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