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abstract: 'Background: Studies have sought to define information needs of health
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workers within very specific settings or projects. Lacking in the
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literature is how hospitals in low-income settings are able to meet the
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information needs of their staff and the use of information
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communication technologies (ICT) in day-to-day information searching.
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Objective: The study aimed to explore where professionals in Kenyan
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hospitals turn to for work-related information in their day-to-day work.
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Additionally, it examined what existing solutions are provided by
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hospitals with regard to provision of best practice care. Lastly, the
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study explored the use of ICT in information searching.
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Design: Data for this study were collected in July 2012.
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Self-administered questionnaires (SAQs) were distributed across 22 study
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hospitals with an aim to get a response from 34 health workers per
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hospital.
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Results: SAQs were collected from 657 health workers. The most popular
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sources of information to guide work were fellow health workers and
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printed guidelines while the least popular were scientific journals. Of
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value to health workers were: national treatment policies, new research
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findings, regular reports from surveillance data, information on costs
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of services and information on their performance of routine clinical
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tasks; however, hospitals only partially met these needs. Barriers to
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accessing information sources included: `not available/difficult to get''
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and `difficult to understand''. ICT use for information seeking was
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reported and with demographic specific differences noted from the
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multivariate logistic regression model; nurses compared to medical
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doctors and older workers were less likely to use ICT for health
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information searching. Barriers to accessing Internet were identified
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as: high costs and the lack of the service at home or at work.
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Conclusions: Hospitals need to provide appropriate information by
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improving information dissemination efforts and providing an enabling
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environment that allows health workers find the information they need
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for best practice.'
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affiliation: 'Muinga, N (Corresponding Author), KEMRI Wellcome Trust Res Programme,
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Dept Publ Hlth Res, POB 43640, Nairobi 00100, Kenya.
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Muinga, Naomi; Ayieko, Philip; English, Mike, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Res Programme,
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Dept Publ Hlth Res, Nairobi 00100, Kenya.
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Sen, Barbara, Univ Sheffield, Informat Sch, Sheffield, S Yorkshire, England.
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Todd, Jim, Univ London London Sch Hyg \& Trop Med, Dept Populat Hlth, London WC1E
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7HT, England.
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English, Mike, Univ Oxford, Dept Paediat, Oxford, England.
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English, Mike, Univ Oxford, Nuffield Dept Med, Oxford, England.'
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article-number: '26559'
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author: Muinga, Naomi and Sen, Barbara and Ayieko, Philip and Todd, Jim and English,
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Mike
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author-email: nmuinga@kemri-wellcome.org
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author_list:
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- family: Muinga
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given: Naomi
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- family: Sen
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given: Barbara
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- family: Ayieko
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given: Philip
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- family: Todd
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given: Jim
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- family: English
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given: Mike
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.3402/gha.v8.26559
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files: []
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issn: 1654-9880
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journal: GLOBAL HEALTH ACTION
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keywords: 'health information; information needs of health workers; ICT;
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information sources; information seeking'
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keywords-plus: 'HEALTH-CARE PROVIDERS; DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES; SEEKING BEHAVIOR;
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DEVELOPING-WORLD; NEEDS; WORKERS; PRACTITIONERS; GUIDELINES; PROGRAM;
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LIFE'
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language: English
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number-of-cited-references: '33'
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orcid-numbers: 'Muinga, Naomi/0000-0002-0749-0255
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Todd, Jim/0000-0001-5918-4914
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English, Michael/0000-0002-7427-0826'
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papis_id: 10bbbbb15a295acaca4f5b606ea3b0ce
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ref: Muinga2015accessvalue
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researcherid-numbers: 'Muinga, Naomi/J-1263-2019
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times-cited: '3'
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title: Access to and value of information to support good practice for staff in Kenyan
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hospitals
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000354645600001
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usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
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usage-count-since-2013: '14'
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volume: '8'
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web-of-science-categories: Public, Environmental \& Occupational Health
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year: '2015'
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