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Background: As the delivery of healthcare evolves to become more interconnected, coordinating care between nurses, pharmacists, physicians, social workers as well as medical librarians and other disciplines has become increasingly important. Librarians are more deeply involved in ward rounds routine exercise, provision of instruction in health information literacy, medical informatic, evidence-based research skills, and problembased learning. This article introduces key concepts relating to the interprofessional collaborative teamwork among health professionals and its impact on medical librarians. Methods: Data for this paper was collected through the literature review and it was done using various online searching tools with relevant information including, PubMed, LibHub, Science Direct and Google Scholar. Results: The results show that the emerging and changed roles have resulted in a shift in professional identity with the health sciences librarians moving toward a collaborative, consultative practice that is more closely aligned to user's needs and approaching patient care from a team-based perspective. Conclusion and Recommendation: The paper concludes among others that there is a need for library science educators and health sciences librarians to seek and identify skills needed for evolving library practice and formal documentation of new roles within clinical settings. It is recommended that they should add technology, collaborative, consultative, instructional design, and teaching skills to their professional toolbox
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RESUMEN La Auditoría Informacional consiste en evaluar y examinar, periódicamente, los recursos informativos que poseen las entidades para identificar la información, sus flujos y elementos como parte de los procesos organizacionales, para comprender la entidad y sus capacidades. Además, permite determinar cuáles son las fuentes informativas que poseen, cuáles son las que realmente se necesitan, cuáles las que no se tienen y las que generan costos inútiles, es decir, valora la efectividad y la eficacia del sistema informacional. Por lo anterior, la presente investigación tiene como objetivo: realizar una revisión de lo publicado sobre Auditoría de Información en EBSCO, SciELO, RedAlyc, Google, Google Académico y el Google Trends. A partir del análisis de la literatura se obtuvo la tendencia sobre el tema a partir de los países y años más productivos e idiomas más frecuentes. Se observó que aún se desarrollan varios estudios de casos sobre la temática y que las metodologías de los autores Bryson (1997), Artiles (2015) y González, Pintoy Ponjuán (2017), son las más citadas.
ABSTRACT The Informational Audit consists of periodically evaluating and examining the information resources that the entities possess to identify the information, its flows and elements that are part of the organizational processes, and thus the entity and its capacities are better understood. In addition, it allows to determine which are the informative sources that are possessed, which are the ones that are really needed, which are the ones that are not available and those that generate useless costs, that is, value the effectiveness and efficiency of the informational system. The present investigation has like objective: to realize a revision of the published thing on Information Audit in EBSCO, SciELO, RedAlyc, Google, Google Scholar and the Google Trends. From the analysis of the literature, the trend was obtained on the subject from the most productive countries and years and most frequent languages. It was observed that several case studies are still being developed on the subject and that the methodologies of the authors Bryson (1997), Artiles (2015) and González, et al (2017), are the most cited.
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Information Systems/organization & administration , Resource Guide , Libraries , Management Audit , Cuba , Knowledge ManagementABSTRACT
The ability to make informed health decisions is a complex process. Knowing when to consult a healthcare professional, understanding one's medical condition and learning how to take medicines correctly require that health information can be accessed, processed and applied effectively by the individual. These statements underpin the concept of "health literacy" which may be defined as the degree to which people have the ability to find, understand, act and communicate health information to make informed health decisions. To communicate at a level that helps patients to make use of health information, there is a need for the healthcare professional to first be able to identify and understand the patient's health literacy by considering age, gender, cultural background, education level, thoughts and behaviours associated with the topic under discussion, and perceived benefits and barriers towards the topic. Five strategies can then be applied for improving that patient's understanding and self management of his or her medical condition: (1) Assess patients' health literacy using open-ended questions; (2) Speak in plain language; (3) Limit the number of teaching points; (4) Use visual aids, and (5) Incorporate the 'teach-back' method to ensure patient understanding.