Reconsidering healthcare evidence as dynamic and distributed: The role of information and cognition.
Article
Sedig, K, Parsons, P, Naimi, A, & Willoughby, K (2015). Reconsidering healthcare evidence as dynamic and distributed: The role of information and cognition. International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare.
EBHC Evidence Based Health Care
EBHC activities are cognitive in nature.
EBHC activites are becoming more a matter of understanding movement of information and knowledge within a distributed and dynamic coginitive system than mere acess to or translation of a ready-at-hand resource
Cognition
three types of information. For instance:
(1) Information as internal, mental states, and structures:
this type of information is concerned with
the knowledge, expertise, and ‘expert opinion’ that
individual stakeholders have, based on education,
training, and clinical experience.
(2) Information as communication: this type of information
is concerned with communication among
stakeholders, between nurses and patients, and
any other message or signal that is conveyed
between entities or agents within a healthcare
environment.
(3) Information as an artifact: this type of information
is concerned with books, papers, reports, and other