Key factors affecting healthcare professionals to adopt knowledge management英文资料.pdf

Expert Systems with Applications 38 (2011) 450–457 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Expert Systems with Applications journal homepage: www.else /locate/eswa Key factors affecting healthcare professionals to adopt knowledge management: The case of infection control departments of Taiwanese hospitals Yu-Hui Chen a, Chung-Feng Liu b,*, Hsin-Ginn Hwang c a Infection Control Committee, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Taiwan, ROC b Department of Information Management, Chia-Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Taiwan, ROC c Institute of Information Management, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, ROC a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Keywords: Facing new infectious diseases that are result of continuous mutation of virus and bacteria and ever Healthcare advancing communication and medical technologies, infection control professionals (ICPs) in the health- Infection control professionals care industry must be able to obtain instantly the needed knowledge in order to increase efficiency and Knowledge management effectiveness in their practice. The purpose of this study is, after an exhaustive literature review and nec- Key factors essary interviews with specialists in this field, to propose a research framework that explores the factors that affect the ICPs’ willingness to adopt knowledge management (KM) into their tasks and to validate the usefulness of this research