Many practitioners will find this experience to be pleasant, while some will experience dissolution awareness as profoundly unsettling, a kind of dark night of the soul so to speak.
Rural practitioners find many barriers to information access, including lack of time, isolation, inadequate library access, lack of equipment and skills, higher costs and an inadequate Internet infrastructure.
Many practitioners claimed to find a drop in their revenue when a large number of (previously fee-paying) clients began claiming free services under the scheme, and others gave examples of non-poor persons holding legal poverty certificates, which they used to access scheme benefits.
Participants and practitioners found the intervention acceptable.
Research on information seeking among general practitioners found that family physicians seeing 25 patients in a typical day of outpatient care may have 15 clinical questions, but many are either not pursued or answers are not found [ 17- 22].
Although the move away from paternalistic models of care towards collaborative models in which decision-making is shared between patient and professional has been widely promoted by policy initiatives [ 29, 30] we found many practitioners were very anxious about where responsibility lay when a patient was required to take more responsibility in practice.
However, an earlier survey found that many practitioners either did not know of or use the range of written resources that exist [ 6].
1 2 As regards medical treatments, many practitioners try to assess whether improved outcomes found in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of a treatment will apply to their patients.
The Inter-Society Coordinating Committee for Practitioner Education in Genomics (ISCC) [ 5] recognizes that many practitioners look to their trusted professional organizations to understand educational priorities and to find educational instruments.
Although research has found that online information is often accurate or can be corrected rapidly, many practitioners believe "the consequences could be disastrous for any inexperienced trainee following the advice" [21].
