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  • 标题:The Patient Informatics Consult Service (PICS): an approach for a patient-centered service
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  • 作者:M. Dawn Williams ; Kimbra Wilder Gish ; Nunzia B. Giuse
  • 期刊名称:Journal of the Medical Library Association
  • 印刷版ISSN:1536-5050
  • 出版年度:2001
  • 卷号:89
  • 期号:2
  • 页码:185-193
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Medical Library Association
  • 摘要:The Patient Informatics Consult Service (PICS) at the Eskind Biomedical Library at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) provides patients with consumer-friendly information by using an information prescription mechanism. Clinicians refer patients to the PICS by completing the prescription and noting the patient's condition and any relevant factors. In response, PICS librarians critically appraise and summarize consumer-friendly materials into a targeted information report. Copies of the report are given to both patient and clinician, thus facilitating doctor-patient communication and closing the clinician-librarian feedback loop. Moreover, the prescription form also circumvents many of the usual barriers for patients in locating information, namely, patients' unfamiliarity with medical terminology and lack of knowledge of authoritative sources. PICS librarians capture the time and expertise put into these reports by creating Web-based pathfinders on prescription topics. Pathfinders contain librarian-created disease overviews and links to authoritative resources and seek to minimize the consumer's exposure to unreliable information. Pathfinders also adhere to strict guidelines that act as a model for locating, appraising, and summarizing information for consumers. These mechanisms—the information prescription, research reports, and pathfinders—serve as steps toward the long-term goal of full integration of consumer health information into patient care at VUMC.
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