Infection control professionals' information-seeking preferences

Modelling Information Seeking Behaviour of Aec Professionals on Online Technical Information Resources

With the increasing popularity of architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) online information resources, studies have emphasized the need for domain specific systems that acknowledge both the user’s information tasks and skills. This study concentrates on analysing the users’ information behaviour when involved in an online information seeking session. This analysis aims to find out wh...

A brave new world of information and communication for infection control professionals.

Information management. These two words describe the major role of infection control professionals (ICP)-we manage information. Surveillance , outbreak investigation, policy development all have information management as a significant component. How we manage information will assist us in our continued improvement as health care professionals. Computers and the Information Superhighway, as note...

Collaborative Information Seeking Behavior: Concepts and Theories

Background and Aim: Collaborative information seeking is an interaction among members of a group who purposefully try to access and share joint information. Although collaboration is a key component of information seeking behavior, but most of the studies in this area are focused on individual information seeking behavior and collaborative aspects are considered much less. As a result, there is...

Sources of anxiety during information seeking process

Background and Aim: the current study aims to determine factors which may cause negative feeling such as fear, uncertainty and anxiety during information seeking process. Method: In this review paper, different library resources and databases were searched in the areas of library anxiety, Internet anxiety, computer anxiety, information seeking, information searching and information retrieval t...

APIC guideline for infection prevention and control in flexible endoscopy. Association for Professionals in Infection Control.