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A knowledge-management model for clinical practice.

Healthcare professionals face information overload and they come across paradoxical information. They are overwhelmed by information but cannot find a particular piece of information when and where they need it.[1] This paper describes a model for knowledge-management (KM) specifically designed for use by healthcare professionals. Technologies have increased the dissemination of information, but worsened the problem of unwanted information. Freely available search engines such as PubMed, MEDLINE and other such searches within bmj.com, allow rapid access to a growing body of knowledge as never before.[2],[3] The skill required by the practitioner is to know how to sift and find information, rather than how to remember facts. In an attempt to control the volume of information and to ensure its relevance to the end-user, sites like the Primary Care National Electronic Library for Health (NeLH-PC) have been created.[4] It is designed to meet the needs of its target group. Instead of getting tens of thousands of hits, as would happen if a search term for a common condition is placed in MEDLINE, NeLH-PC is designed to take the user to a smaller number of more relevant hits. It is an example of how to access the information appropriately. However, access to the information by itself will not result in its use or raise the quality of service.