End User Searching in the Health Sciences
End User Searching in the Health Sciences

Author: M Sandra Wood

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1317951247

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Valuable to both the health professional and information provider, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed look at online biomedical database searching by end users. Experts fully assess the numerous implications of end user searching and synthesize a wide variety of views and successful practices. By examining the types of users, institutional settings, products used, and applications, this important volume probes the specific variations among programs and provides a solid overview of end user searching in the health science field. The volume includes informative chapters on determining content and structure of online educational materials, training the end user, the issues in implementing end user search systems, and much more.

Underlying Standards that Support Population Health Improvement
Underlying Standards that Support Population Health Improvement

Author: Laura Bright

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-11-10

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1351649264

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This book highlights success stories and challenges to implementing health IT standards. The narrative of each chapter demonstrates how standards further interoperable health data exchange, especially in the service of advancing tools to monitor population health. These are critical stories that demonstrate to an international community of health and IT experts how to bring the right stakeholders together and bridge classic divides between software architects and clinical end users, health system decision-makers and standard authors.

Quality of Life Measurement in Neurodegenerative and Related Conditions
Quality of Life Measurement in Neurodegenerative and Related Conditions

Author: Crispin Jenkinson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-02-03

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1139491342

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Patient reported outcome measures are central to the evaluation of medical care and treatment regimes. Such measures depart from traditional clinical assessments as they are based on issues known to be of importance to patients. This book outlines the development and application of a variety of such measures in a wide range of neurological conditions. Introductory chapters outline issues in the application and validation of quality-of-life measures in neurology. Subsequent chapters survey the most widely used quality-of-life instruments in Parkinson's disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, multiple system atrophy, progressive supranuclear palsy, and Alzheimer's/dementia. A chapter on cerebral palsy deals with the particular challenges to developing outcome measures for children. The book also addresses issues relating to the translation of measures for use in cross-cultural studies, handling missing data, carer experiences of long-term conditions, and methodological challenges. Essential reading for clinicians and researchers working in the field of neurology.