== information behavior in the context of improving patient safety / MacIntosh-Murray & Choo (2005)==

**Citation** - MacIntosh-Murray, A., & Choo, C. W. (2005). Information Behavior in the Context of Improving Patient Safety. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56(12), 1332-1345.


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* This study examines how organizational and professional practices and beliefs related to patient safety influence 
** (1) how health care providers and managers make sense of patient safety risks and adverse events, and 
** (2) the flow and use of information for making improvements. 
* Finding: 
** front-line staff are task driven, coping with heavy workloads that limit their attention to and recognition of potential information needs and knowledge gaps. 
** a surrogate in an information related role—an “information/change agent”—may intervene successfully with staff and engage in preventive maintenance and repair of routines. 
* Discusses: 
** Four key functions of the information/change agent (i.e., boundary spanner, information seeker, knowledge translator, and change champion) in the context of situated practice and learning.

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