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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 82:888 (2000)
© 2000 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

The Orthopaedic Forum

Orthopaedic Information Mastery: Applying Evidence-Based Information Tools to Improve Patient Outcomes While Saving Orthopaedists' Time*

Shepard R. Hurwitz, M.D., David Slawson, M.D. and Allen Shaunessy, Pharm.D.

Department of Orthopaedics (S. R. H.), Box 159Department of Family Medicine (D. S.)University of Virginia School of MedicineCharlottesville, Virginia 22908E-mail address for S. R. Hurwitz: srh5u@virginia.edu
Harrisburg Family Practice Residency ProgramHarrisburg Hospital205 Front Street, P.O. Box 8700Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105-8700

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

-Herbert Simon, Nobel Laureate Economist, 1971

Knowledge is power.

-Sir Francis Bacon, 1597

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

-Sir Francis Bacon

Medical information that is relevant to orthopaedic surgeons is continuously expanding and changing, while older information is expiring24,25. The speed at which new information is generated and disseminated challenges us to adopt new strategies for acquiring useful knowledge and leaving unusable information aside. Reading faster or spending more time reading does not ensure that one is gaining more relevant orthopaedic knowledge. In addition to the challenge of processing ever-increasing amounts of orthopaedic information, there . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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