scholarly journals Nursing Professionals Use and Value Information but Favour Work-based Sources and Colleagues in Preference to Libraries

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Andrew Booth
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Value Of Information ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Health Visitors ◽  
Nursing Professionals ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Information Providers

A review of: Urquhart, C., and R. Davies. ”EVINCE: The Value of Information in Developing Nursing Knowledge and Competence.” Health Libraries Review 14.2 (1997): 61-72. Objective – To examine the impact of information on the clinical knowledge and practice of nurses, midwives and health visitors. Design – Two surveys: a one-page critical incident questionnaire survey sent weekly over four weeks, and a questionnaire attached to information requests and searches, followed up by interviews. Setting – UK health information providers serving nurses (national information providers, National Health Service trust libraries, higher education funded library and information services, and a health promotion library). Subjects – A random sample of 210 nurses, midwives and health visitors were targeted in the critical incident survey, and 776 of those requesting information or searches at participating library and information centres received questionnaires for the second survey. Methods – Opinion leaders were consulted to inform a pilot study. A critical incident type questionnaire survey was then administered to a random sample of 210 nurses, midwives and health visitors. The same one-page questionnaire was sent weekly (for four weeks) to 10% of a randomly selected sample of staff at each site. Staff were asked to identify one occasion during that week when they needed information, the purpose of the information needed, the sources chosen to answer the query and how successful the quest was. The impact of the information provided by the library and information services on present and future professional practice was examined through a complementary survey. Responses were coded using three categories of competence: assessment, monitoring of care and evaluation of care. Follow-up interviews then explored the nature of the incident described or the quality of information provided. Main results – The response rate for the critical incident survey was 52% (434 out of 840 completed questionnaires returned) with 78% (163/210) of participants replying at least once. The total response rate for the second survey was 40% (311/776). Ninety percent of respondents stated that the information they obtained from the library or information service added to their knowledge, and 86% had been able to use some information immediately. Sixty-one percent reported that information had refreshed their memory, and 75% agreed that information substantiated what they had known or suspected. Seventy-six percent of respondents agreed that they needed to obtain more information on the topic, while 23% had expected to find something else. Eighty-eight percent of respondents indicated that they would share the information with colleagues. Ninety-six percent of respondents agreed that the information obtained would contribute to future practice. Seventy percent felt that the information would or did help in evaluation of practice outcomes, 68% for improved quality of life for patient and/or family and 61% in interpersonal relations with clients/patients. Other majority responses were for Audit or standards of care (57%), Monitoring of care (56%) and Legal or ethical issues (51%). Base or ward sources were used in 72% of patient care related incidents and colleagues in 56% of these incidents. Of 148 incidents involving use of a library, the primary purposes were personal updating (62%), coursework (54%), patient care – specific drug or therapy (44%), and teaching staff, students or colleagues (39%). Conclusion – The findings demonstrate the value of information to nursing professionals while acknowledging that the library is not necessarily a principal source of such information. Ward-based resources and information from colleagues continue to play a dominant part in information use. Rather than reducing uncertainty, the value of information may lie in encouraging uncertainty and reflective practice. Information professionals must seek a greater understanding of situations and methods of presentation by which they might encourage reflective practice.

REDARTE-SP: networking art information resources in São Paulo

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-24
Author(s):  
Maria Christina Barbosa de Almeida ◽  
Paulo Simões de Almeida Pina
Keyword(s):  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Cultural Centers ◽  
Organizational Issues ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Information Providers ◽  
The City

Art information providers in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, include libraries, archives, and documentation sections in art museums and cultural centers. In 1998 REDARTE-SP, a network of these services in the city, was created to facilitate discussion of theoretical, technical and organizational issues facing art information services and to formulate collaborative projects. The subsequent exchange of ideas, discussion of successful practices and development of shared projects empowers art information professionals, contributes to improving the quality of art information services and products, provides better use of the available resources and widens the circle of users.

Developing a Conceptual Framework for Innovative Behaviour in Healthcare Organization

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.34) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Lina Iziana Ghazali ◽  
Aziz Amin
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
Innovative Behaviour ◽  
Patient Care Quality ◽  
Nursing Professionals ◽  
The Impact

In recent years, healthcare face challenges to be more responsive to the increased demands of public for better quality of care. In order to ensure public received with good healthcare services, the most important employees are nursing professionals who are responsible to emphasise on delivering quality and efficient. Based on literature, innovation can become a good solution to increase patient care quality. Healthcare depend on their nurses to continuous innovate their ways of working that actually improve nursing practice. Previous study found that leadership is important antecedent of innovative behaviour. This study is an attempt to examine transformational leadership on innovative behaviour among nurses. The structural equation modelling has been proposed and will be used to test the impact of transformational leadership towards innovative behaviour.    

Time for some home truths – exploring the relationship between GPs and social workers

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Mangan ◽  
Robin Miller ◽  
Jeremy Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between general practitioners (GPs) and social care professionals by reflecting on a project (the Home Truths project) which sought to improve joint working between general practice and social care though an action-research process. Design/methodology/approach – iMPOWER's Home Truths project involved gathering local data regarding joint working in local areas and using this data as a catalyst for change. The Institute of Local Government Studies and the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham were asked to act as a critical friend to the project. This involved supporting the design of the data collection, offering advice on the process and to carrying out a short evaluation of the impact of the first wave. The paper reflects on the collected data from the sites and information from the impact evaluation. Findings – The paper highlights the poor quality of the relationship between GPs and social workers. Findings that illustrate this include GPs’ poor knowledge of social care services; a perception that social care services were of poor quality and rating the quality of their relationships with social workers as poor. However GPs felt that knowing more about social care could help prevent their patients going into residential care earlier than necessary and wanted to work more closely with social care to exploit the benefits and opportunities. The interventions that have been put in place to try and improve relationships focus on the day-to-day working lives of the professionals rather than attempting to introduce new initiatives. Research limitations/implications – The response rate from GPs in the areas was low (average response rate was 10 per cent in each area) and it may be that only those GPs who are interested in working with social care responded. The initiatives that have been developed appear to be reasonable responses to the issues identified. However, a lack of discrete outcomes through which to measure improvement will make it difficult to demonstrate the impact of the interventions. Originality/value – This paper underlines that despite many years of policy makers promoting better integration, the relationship between the key gate-keepers within the health and social care systems is still poor. The findings from the Home Truths surveys and action plans has gone some way to address the gap identified in the evidence base about the relationships between GPs and social workers.

P578Multipoint pacing in cardiac resynchronization therapy - how to improve remodeling criteria and its impact in quality of life

EP Europace ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Nunes Ferreira ◽  
P S Antonio ◽  
I Aguiar-Ricardo ◽  
T Rodrigues ◽  
N Cunha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Reverse Remodeling ◽  
Resynchronization Therapy ◽  
Rate Reduction ◽  
Systolic Volume ◽  
End Systolic Volume ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background Despite the reduction in mortality and hospitalization rates, resynchronization therapy still has 30-40% of non-responders. Several studies are ongoing to evaluate if novel programming techniques such as multipoint pacing (MPP) increase the conversion rate of non-responder to responder to CRT. However, there is still lack of information about conversion to super-responders and the impact in quality of life of MPP. Purpose To evaluate the impact of MPP in conversion to super-responders and its impact in the quality of life of patients. Methods Randomized clinical trial of non-AF patients with indication for CRT and who implanted the Quartet™ quadripolar left ventricle (LV) lead. After implant, CRTs were programmed on biventricular pacing according to the latest activated area for 6 months. After a 6-month follow-up, patients were randomized in a 1:1 fashion to MPP ON or MPP OFF. MPP was programmed with the two widest spaced LV electrodes and with a LV1-LV2 to LV2-RV delay of 5ms. Patients were followed-up for 12 months with a 6-month evaluation of NTproBNP, echocardiographic remodeling criteria (LV end systolic volume (ESV) and LV ejection fraction), and quality of life (QoL) evaluated by EQ-5D, Minnesota Living with Heart Failure (MLWHF) questionnaire and 6-minute walk test (6MWT). Results  76 patients were included in this trial, 62 with a completed 12-month follow-up (average age 67.2 ± 10.2 years old, 32.3% female gender, dilated cardiomyopathy in 77.4%). Among these patients, 24 were randomized to MPP ON, 28 to MPP OFF. Six patients died and 4 were lost to follow-up. Baseline clinical and echocardiographic characteristics were similar between groups (p = NS). At 6 months, the overall response rate (reduction in ESV≥15%) was 75%. At twelve months, patients randomized to MPP ON had a super-response rate (reduction in ESV≥30%) higher than patients with MPP OFF (75% vs 39.3%, p = 0.01). Between 6-12 months, patients assigned to MPP ON had a higher reduction in ESV (93.4 ± 52.3mL to 82.1 ± 40.5mL, p = 0.04) and an improvement in LVEF (38.3 ± 9.8% to 45.1 ± 11.1%, p < 0.01) compared to patients with MPP OFF (92.2 ± 47.3mL to 95.4 ± 47.5mL, p = NS; 37.1 ± 12.0% to 40.2 ± 9.2%, p = NS). Additionally, QoL of patients with MPP ON improved during follow up (EQ-5D 78.3% to 86.3%, p < 0.01; MLWHF 12.1 to 6.6, p = 0.03, 6MWT 316m to 239m, p = NS; NTproBNP 1608 ± 2450pg/mL to 775 ± 914pg/mL, p = NS) and was unchanged in MPP OFF patients (76.6% to 74.2%; MLWHF 12.7 to 12.7; 6MWT 338m to 299m, NTproBNP 1112 ± 1442pg/mL to 1383 ± 2118pg/mL, for all p = NS). Conclusion In our population, patients with CRT programmed with MPP ON, when compared to MPP OFF, had an improvement in the super-response rate and in quality of life. These results may be consequence from a more favorable reverse remodeling due to MPP, with a higher reduction in the LV end systolic volume. Abstract Figure.

scholarly journals Forewarned is Forearmed? A Survey-Experiment concerning the Impact of Pre-Notification Letters on Response in a Postal Survey

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bram Spruyt ◽  
Filip Van Droogenbroeck
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Overall Response Rate ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Overall Response ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
The Impact

The use of pre-notification letters is thought to increase the response rate of postal surveys. The empirical evidence for that claim, however, is not conclusive. In this research note we assessed the impact of pre-notification by means of data from a large-scale survey-experiment conducted in Flanders (N: 4000). Three outcomes were studied: overall response rate, timing of the response and quality of the response. No significant positive impact was found on the overall response rate and quality of response. However evidence indicated that respondents who received a pre-notification letter were more inclined to respond earlier.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF LOTTERY INCENTIVE ON RESPONSE RATE AND DATA QUALITY: EVIDENCE FROM ORGANIC FOOD CONSUMPTION SURVEY OF CONVENTIONAL SHOPPERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-74
Author(s):  
Shahidul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Data Quality ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Increase Response Rate ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Organic Food Consumption ◽  
The Impact

Incentives of different forms and at different stages are used for motivating people to participate in human subject research. Although it is widely accepted that incentives, in general, play a positive role in increasing participation rate and are widely used, there are exceptions that they may not increase response rate and may even contaminate the quality of data resulting in poor research findings. This study examines the impact of pre- and post-disclosed committed lottery incentives on response rate and data quality in a face-to-face survey of conventional consumers for organic food consumption. A survey was conducted at the premises of four conventional grocery stores in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Half of the randomly approached and agreed upon respondents were disclosed the lottery incentives at the beginning, and the rest half were told at the end. Data quality was measured using three indicators – edit occurrences, imputation occurrences, and proportion of incomplete answers. Our study finds little difference in response rate between pre- and post-disclosed committed lottery payments. However, the useability of incomplete questionnaires among post-disclosed lottery was significantly higher than those of pre-disclosed. Our study also shows that people with likings of organic food and buying organic food more frequently are likely to offer a better quality of information.

scholarly journals Health Centre Staff Are Satisfied with Librarian-Mediated Search Services, Especially When Librarians Follow Up

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-46
Author(s):  
Peace Ossom Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Incident ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Literature Searching ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Health Centre Staff ◽  
Online Form

A Review of: McKeown, S., Konrad, S.-L., McTavish, J., & Boyce, E. (2017). Evaluation of hospital staff’s perceived quality of librarian-mediated literature searching services. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 105(2), 120-131. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2017.201 Abstract Objective – To determine the effects of the professional designation and communication method on clinical, educational, and research activities and related users’ reported satisfaction with and perceived quality of a librarian-mediated literature searching service. Design – Online survey. Setting – A large teaching hospital in Ontario, Canada. Subjects – 237 health sciences centre staff who were requesting librarian-mediated literature searching over a one-year period. Methods – From February 1, 2014 to January 31, 2015, one-third of the health centre staff members requesting searching services, representing a systematic sample of the user group, were invited to participate in the survey. The survey centred on questioning participants on a critical incident, which, according to the critical incident technique, is an actual event upon which recollections are made, rather than hypothetical situations. In the case of this study, the critical incident was the service they received upon requesting literature searching by a librarian who was blinded concerning the originator of the request. With a 71% response rate, the researchers received 137 responses to the survey by health sciences staff. Participants were asked how many literature searches they had requested in the previous year, the reason they requested the service, how they submitted the request, and whether the librarian followed up for further clarification of their need. They also reported on the relevance of the results and their method of delivery, along with their perceptions of the overall quality of the service. Main Results – The results came from 137 completed surveys, for a 71% response rate. Physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals comprised 85% of the responses, at 35%, 27%, and 23% respectively. Scientists, researchers, research coordinators, and other staff made up the remainder of responses. Responses indicated frequent search requests, with the average number of searches being five, and 68% of respondents reported searching for the information themselves before contacting the library for assistance. Most searches were for research/publishing (34%) and teaching/training (20%). Requests were submitted via email (44%), online form (32%), in person (17.5%), and phone (6.5%), and most respondents rated themselves extremely satisfied (54%) or very satisfied (42%). Most respondents (72%) reported that the librarian followed up for further clarification of the request, and staff who received follow-up rated themselves extremely satisfied at a significantly higher rate than those who did not (p=0.002). Respondents whose request was submitted verbally (i.e., by phone or in person), in comparison with those whose request was submitted by email or online form, rated themselves extremely satisfied at a significantly higher rate (p=0.004) and rated the quality of results as excellent at a significantly higher rate (p=0.005). Conclusion – The need for comprehensive and expert searching when publishing or completing research and the availability of easy to use point-of-care resources may be why librarian-mediated literature searching was used for research and publishing at a rate much higher than for patient care. In addition, the fact that the institution was also engaged in efforts toward evidence-based standardization of care and electronic health records during that year may have also affected results. While satisfaction with the service was higher for those communicating verbally with a librarian, it is unclear whether this was caused by other factors or differences between staff members who engage in phone or in-person communication and those who submit forms and online requests. Because following up was correlated with higher satisfaction, adjustments in service encouraging librarians to follow up are recommended. Following up in person and via phone may help further.

The Impact of Information Visualisation on the Quality of Information in Business Decision-Making

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alenka Zabukovec ◽  
Jurij Jaklič
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Value Of Information ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Business Decision ◽  
Information Visualisation ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Impact

The visualisation of information for business decision-making is a relatively understudied area despite the promising benefits. Previous research confirms the value of information visualisation. Still, the mechanisms of the impacts on the quality of information are poorly understood. Therefore, the authors examine the impact of the quality and quantity of information visualisation on the quality of the content and access to information among different types of users and for various types of use. The results show the varying importance of the quality and quantity of visualisation for the quality of information and that there are statistically significant differences between groups of decision-makers and decision-making in various situations. Information visualisation adjustments for different user perceptual types and for various business decision-making situations can increase the quality of information and potentially lead to the faster and more accurate receipt and processing of business information.

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