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JAMIA 1999;6:6-25 doi:10.1136/jamia.1999.0060006
  • The Practice of Informatics
  • Review Paper

The Basis for Using the Internet to Support the Information Needs of Primary Care

  1. Edward E Westberg,
  2. Randolph A Miller
  1. Affiliation of the authors: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
  1. Corresdpondence and reprints: Edward E. Westberg, MS, Eskind Biomedical Library, 4th Floor, 2209 Garland Avenue, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8340.e-mail: 〈westberg{at}vuse.vanderbilt.edu〉
  • Received 2 February 1998
  • Accepted 22 September 1998

Abstract

Synthesizing the state of the art from the published literature, this review assesses the basis for employing the Internet to support the information needs of primary care. The authors survey what has been published about the information needs of clinical practice, including primary care, and discuss currently available information resources potentially relevant to primary care. Potential methods of linking information needs with appropriate information resources are described in the context of previous classifications of clinical information needs. Also described is the role that existing terminology mapping systems, such as the National Library of Medicine's Unified Medical Language System, may play in representing and linking information needs to answers.

Footnotes

  • This work was supported by grants G08-LM06175-01 and G08-LM05443, and in part by grant 1-R01-LM06226-02 to RAM, all from the National Library of Medicine.

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