Instructions for Reviewing the Primary Care Informatics Bibliography

Download the Microsoft Excel PCIB spreadsheet.

• PCIB excel spreadsheet: most recent
• PCIB access database: most recent

1. Look at Refence#’s in Column “A” and find articles according to your last name (this will help prevent us from all selecting the same articles)
   1. A-K: 1-80
   2. L-S: 81-179
   3. S-Z: 180 to end
2. Check Column “J”-“Reviewer” to see what abstracts are available for review-i.e. cell empty.
3. Select abstracts you are willing to review, note that by putting your name in Column “J”-“Reviewer.” On average, it will take about 5 minutes per article (abstract review only).
4. Email file back to me, and to others in the original email, so that I can update the database, and to help minimize people selecting the same articles for review.
5. You may need to find full abstract on Pubmed, since some abstracts and PMID#s did not import correctly , or sometimes Googling the title plus an author is fastest way to Pubmed reference.
6. Copy pubmed url into database, Column “I”-“URL”- this did not come with my searches.
7. Copy abstract (if available) into Column “H”-“Abstract” if not already there.
8. Read abstract (full article if you want) and ask following questions.
   1. Does this article cover some aspect of Primary Care Informatics? [This is loosely defined, I have included definitions of Primary Care and Medical Informatics]
      1. If NO, then mark a “0” in Column “K”- “Include in Bibliography”
      2. If YES, then mark a “1” in Column “K”- “Include in Bibliography”
         1. For YES article, put code in Column “L”-“ Category.” Select a category or categories that you think the article could fall into(list on spreadsheet “Categories”), if OTHER, then list your proposed new category. If multiple categories, then separate by commas. Current categories are as follows.
            1. Electronic Health Records
            2. Theory of primary care informatics
            3. Implementation studies
            4. Clinical Decision Support and Knowledge Processing
            5. Physician/Provider Order Entry
            6. Physician/Provider Documentation/Coding
            7. Data Quality
            8. Patient Safety
            9. Secondary Uses of Data and Information
            10. Clinical communication
            11. Security and confidentiality
            12. Education and training
            13. Patient access to the electronic medical record
            14. Internet and other ways of communicating health information
            15. The future for primary care informatics
            16. Other
         2. For Yes articles, after reading abstract, then score the following areas A) Topic’s importance to Medical and Health Informatics(0-10), B) Scientific and/or practical impact of the paper to the topic, C) Quality of scientific and/or technical content, D) Originality and innovativeness in Columns “N” through “Q”. Criteria are on “Criteria” worksheet-you only need to use the “short” form, not the “long” form. Overall score will be calculated. This is very subjective, but may provide some guidance/prioritization if we want to do more detailed review of certain full articles.
   2. If you have any comments, feel free to add them in Column “S”-“Comments”
   3. If you can find full-text, paste URL into column “R”-“ Full Text Available”, or indicate
9. When complete with your reviews then email back the database or your portion of the database to me. I will incorporate changes on weekly basis and update online version.

Andy Steele, MD, MPH
Director, Medical Informatics
Denver Health (1932)
660 Bannock St.
Denver, CO 80204
Phone: 303.436.4812
Fax: 303.436.5952

Associate Professor, Medicine
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

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