Anaesthesia & intensive care medicine
Volume 8, Issue 12 , Pages 516-517, December 2007

Knowledge management

Paul Cooper, BSc (Hons), FRCA, is Consultant Anaesthetist at North Tyneside Hospital, North Shields. He qualified from Charing Cross Hospital, London, and trained in Canada, Sheffield and Newcastle. He is a member of the Society for Computing and Technology in Anaesthesia (SCATA), and is completing a degree in computer science at the Open University

Abstract 

The relationship between data, knowledge, wisdom and understanding is explained in this article. There is a need to convert implicit knowledge to explicit knowledge to support several projects within the NHS (and elsewhere), to disseminate good practice, and to provide a sound basis for the different levels of developing clinical decision support systems. Stimulated by increasing access to the Internet, there is a tension between traditional sources of knowledge (e.g. books, individuals recognized as experts), and many different and varied sources of information and knowledge (a wide range of online resources that often are freely available).

Keywords: data, decision support, explicit knowledge, implicit knowledge

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PII: S1472-0299(07)00242-1

doi:10.1016/j.mpaic.2007.09.012

Anaesthesia & intensive care medicine
Volume 8, Issue 12 , Pages 516-517, December 2007

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