The Primary Care Informatics Bibliography (PCIB)

Overview

The Primary Care Informatics Bibliography (PCIB) will be a comprehensive compilation of peer-reviewed literature on informatics issues as they relate to primary care.

The PCIB will be developed in preparation for the Primary Care Informatics Working Group meeting at the 2005 American Medical Informatics Association annual convention which will be held in Washington, D.C. on October 23rd, 2005. The bibliography database will cover important articles in defining components of primary care focusing on relevant research in the field of medical informatics as it relates to primary care.

Methodology

A systematic review of the literature will be performed with the keywords [need more details,? other MeSH terms, ?too narrow with review] “Medical Informatics” and “Primary Health Care” with a limit of “review articles” and date > 01/01/1990. Primary inquiry of the following databases will occur: Medline (1966–2005), CINAHL (1982–2005), CANCER-Lit (1975–2005), HealthSTAR (1975–2005), EMBASE (1980–2005), the American College of Physicians (ACP) Journal Club (1991–2005), the Cochrane Central Register of Clinical Trials, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (through 2005), and the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (through 2005). In addition, references from past IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics will be reviewed. Abstracts will be reviewed and if the topic concerns information dealing with both medical informatics and primary care, it will be included in the bibliography.

Proposed Categorization

• Electronic Health Records
• Theory of primary care informatics
• Implementation studies
• Clinical Decision Support and Knowledge Processing
• Physician/Provider Order Entry
• Physician/Provider Documentation/Coding
• Data Quality
• Patient Safety
• Secondary Uses of Data and Information
• Clinical communication
• Security and confidentiality
• Education and training
• Patient access to the electronic medical record
• Internet and other ways of communicating health information
• The future for primary care informatic

Above proposed are based upon the following:

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• Overview
• Theory of primary care informatics
• Implementation studies
• Bridging the digital divide
• Computer uptake and usage
• Comparing paper-based with electronic medical records
• Going paperless
• Data quality
• Secondary uses / users of data and information
• Support for quality improvement
• Decision support
• Patient safety
• Clinical concepts and coding
• Clinical communication
• Security and confidentiality
• Education and training
• Professionalism
• Patient access to the electronic medical record
• Internet and other ways of communicating health information
• Recommendations for strategic action
• The future for primary care informatics

IMIA Yearbook

• Section 1: Health and clinical Management
• Section 2: Patient Records
• Section 3: Health Information Systems
• Section 4: Signal Processing
• Section 5: Image Processing
• Section 6: Knowledge Processing and Decision Support
• Section 7: Computer Supported Education
• Section 8: Bioinformatics

Outcome

Abstracts from 2004 will be scored using a modification of the IMIA “Quality Criteria” scoring tool. Articles written in languages other than English will be included if an English-language abstract is available. Physicians working in the field of primary care informatics will independently review the abstracts using a modification of the IMIA “Quality Criteria” scoring tool. The top ~50 abstracts will be identified based upon the ratings. Utilizing the IMIA Quality Criteria” tool, these ~50 articles will each be scored and a short annotated summary will be created.

Timeline

TBD

Figure 1. Methodology

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