INFORMATICS WEEK 1 — MIDTERMS

• Information Search Process


  1. Initiation

  2. Selection

  3. Exploration

  4. Formulation

  5. Collection

  6. Presentation
• Initiation


  Recognize a need for information, person becomes aware of the gap in knowledge, feelings of uncertainty and apprehension, vague thoughts, discussing possible avenues of approach or topics to continue
• Selection


  Identify and select the general topic and approach, feelings of uncertainty give way to optimism, weighing prospective topics, confer with others or make a preliminary search of information
• Exploration


  Investigate information on the general topic to extend personal understanding, feelings of confusion, uncertainty, and doubt, becoming oriented and sufficiently informed about the topic, locating information about the general topic, reading to become informed, relating new information to what is already known
• Formulation


  Form a focus from the information encountered, feelings of uncertainty diminish and confidence increases, identifying and selecting ideas in the information from which to form a focused perspective of the topic
• Collection


  Gather information related to the focused topic, defining, extending, and supporting the focus, selecting information relevant to the focused perspective of the topic, feelings of confidence continue to increase
• Presentation


  Complete the search and prepare to present or otherwise use the findings, feelings of relief are common with a sense of satisfaction or disappointment, culminating the search with a personalized synthesis of the topic or problem, summary search in which decreasing relevance and increasing redundancy are noted in the information encountered
• The Assessment stage is not really part of the 6-stage ISP model. After the Presentation stage, you are expected to achieve a sense of accomplishment and become self-aware.
• ISP Model


  • A six-stage model of the user's holistic experience in the process of information seeking
  • Identifies 3 realms of experience common to each stage: Affective (feelings), Cognitive (thoughts), Physical (actions)
  • Central to the model is the notion that uncertainty, both affective and cognitive, increases and decreases in the process of information seeking
• Researching techniques


  • Phrase Searching
  • Simple Search
  • Boolean Search
  • Wildcard
  • Truncation
  • Advanced Search
• Sources of medical and drug information

  • Tertiary Literature
  • Secondary Literature
  • Primary Literature
• Tertiary Literature


  Information that has been filtered and summarized by the author or editor, consists of published textbooks, compendia, review articles, clinical guidelines, online drug databases
• Tertiary Literature


  • Easy to use, familiar to most practitioners, concise overview of information on a specific topic, convenient, fairly complete information
  • Long delays in publishing a text, possible bias, lack of access to the original information sources, information may not be complete, error in transcription
• Secondary Literature


  Mainly in the form of searchable databases that enable location and retrieval of primary or tertiary resources found in journals, provides abbreviated reviews of articles in the form of indexing and abstracting services
• Primary Literature


  Original works that provide first-hand evidence, original journal articles or unpublished studies
• Primary Literature


  • Provides most complete information about a subject, personally assess the utility and validity of study results, more recent
  • Necessitates readers to have sufficient skill and time, may provide misleading conclusions
• Scholarly journal articles


  Written by experts in a field, researchers, scholars or professors, read by researchers and experts, scholars (including students), people with knowledge of the topic, "serious" looking, mostly text, some charts, graphs, or tables, fewer advertisements or illustrations, generally longer articles, about original research studies or experiments, in-depth analysis of a specific topic or theory, critical analysis, peer reviewed
• Popular articles


  Written by reporters or journalists, staff writers, freelance writers, read by the general public, people who do not have in-depth knowledge of the topic, color photographs, commercial advertisements, easy-to-read or eye-catching layout, about entertainment and popular culture, current events and news, opinion pieces or articles with an emotional slant
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