Section 1: The role of information in health care
As a student, you need to be able to find reliable information for your coursework and exams. For health practitioners, the quality and relevance of the information they find can sometimes literally be a matter of life and death.What works?
How do practitioners know what interventions will be effective? Is there any research to show that one form of intervention is better than another? Is it possible to find it, read it, evaluate it and turn it into effective treatment for your patient?New developments
Researchers constantly publish new findings. A new treatment may have been developed or there may be changes in government policy. It's important to be able to keep up with the most significant developments.Information underpins everything
You will encounter information all the time during your course.You will read books, attend lectures, discuss your work with tutors and friends. You will also change information: by thinking about it, adding your ideas and turning it into an essay or project. Information will continue to be important in your clinical practice.
