TY - GEN
T1 - Embracing standard treatment manuals
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Information Technology in Health Care: Socio-Technical Approaches, ITHC 2007
AU - Davy, Carol
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Papua New Guinean primary health care workers describe their Standard Treatment Manuals as like "a teacher" or "a doctor". This paper explores this glowing reference, looking at how Standard Treatment Manuals are utilised, through data collected in a study which identifies what influences primary health care workers in Papua New Guinea to access and utilise information for diagnostic and treatment decisions. In addition to presenting a unique perspective on this method for transferring information to health workers across the world, this paper presents an opportunity to consider some of the factors which both enable and inhibit the process of providing information to health workers in a non western culture.
AB - Papua New Guinean primary health care workers describe their Standard Treatment Manuals as like "a teacher" or "a doctor". This paper explores this glowing reference, looking at how Standard Treatment Manuals are utilised, through data collected in a study which identifies what influences primary health care workers in Papua New Guinea to access and utilise information for diagnostic and treatment decisions. In addition to presenting a unique perspective on this method for transferring information to health workers across the world, this paper presents an opportunity to consider some of the factors which both enable and inhibit the process of providing information to health workers in a non western culture.
KW - Developing countries
KW - Health information
KW - Information transfer
KW - Treatment guidelines
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79959332162&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 17917178
AN - SCOPUS:79959332162
SN - 9781586037772
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 23
EP - 35
BT - Information Technology in Health Care 2007 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Technology in Health Care
PB - IOS Press
Y2 - 28 August 2007 through 30 August 2007
ER -