Information Services - Classification
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Practicing what they preach: health behaviors of those who provide health advice to extensive social networks.

27 Feb 2009 As a way of identifying a conduit to disseminate health information, this study aims to explore health behaviors and attitudes of a unique group of extensively socially-networked individuals who regularly are asked for their health advice. ... Read more...

Incidental health information use on the Internet.

30 Dec 2008 This study investigates the correlates of incidental or nonpurposive health information use on the Internet. Through a secondary analysis of the Health Information National Trends Survey II data, this study reveals that incidental health information ... Read more...

Public reporting in health care: how do consumers use quality-of-care information? A systematic review.

30 Dec 2008 BACKGROUND: One of the underlying goals of public reporting is to encourage the consumer to select health care providers or health plans that offer comparatively better quality-of-care. OBJECTIVE: To review the weight consumers give to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Information Services - Classification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Practicing what they preach: health behaviors of those who provide health advice to extensive social networks. 27 Feb 2009
• Incidental health information use on the Internet. 30 Dec 2008
• Public reporting in health care: how do consumers use quality-of-care information? A systematic review. 30 Dec 2008
• Categorization of services for seeking information in biomedical literature: a typology for improvement of practice. 24 Jul 2008
• Research use and support needs, and research activity in social care: a cross-sectional survey in two councils with social services responsibilities in the UK. 30 Mar 2008
• How do general practitioners assess the criteria for due care for euthanasia in concrete cases? 5 Mar 2008
• Energy, climate, food and health. 30 Dec 2007
• Perceptions of traditional information sources and use of the world wide web to seek health information: findings from the health information national trends survey. 29 Sep 2007
• Assessing the content and quality of information on the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis on the World Wide Web. 29 Nov 2006
• Sources of health information among Vietnamese American men. 29 Jun 2006
• Knowledge in the Palm of your hands: PDAs in the clinical setting. 27 Feb 2006
• Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS): knowledge, attitudes, practices and sources of information among physicians answering a SARS fever hotline service. 16 Nov 2005
• Information resource preferences by general pediatricians in office settings: a qualitative study. 12 Oct 2005
• Meeting the public's cancer information needs: characteristics of callers to the National Cancer Information Center of the American Cancer Society. 30 Dec 2004
• Endometriosis: internet resources. 30 Dec 2004
• The information requirements of people with cancer: where to go after the "patient information leaflet"? 30 Dec 2004
• Guide of internet sites for the study of cardiology. 9 Nov 2004
• Prospective evaluation of an internet-linked handheld computer critical care knowledge access system. 12 Oct 2004
• Sources of evidence in HIV/AIDS care: pilot study comparing family physicians and AIDS service organization staff. 7 Jul 2004
• Do the leading children's hospitals have quality web sites? A description of children's hospital web sites. 23 Jun 2004

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Technical information about 'Information Services'

Definition: Organized services to provide information on any questions an individual might have using databases and other sources. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

Descriptor UI: D007255

Alternative terms: Information Services; Information Service; Service, Information; Services, Information; Information Specialists; Information Specialist; Specialist, Information; Specialists, Information; Information Networks; Information Network; Network, Information; Networks, Information;

Related Mesh Headings: Libraries; Information Dissemination;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: L01.453;

History Note: 66

Technical Notes: med inform serv: do not coord with MEDICINE; DRUG INFORMATION SERVICES is available; DF: INFORMATION SERV