John W. Ely

TL;DR: Questions about patient care can be organised into a limited number of generic types, which could help guide the efforts of knowledge base developers.

TL;DR: Many obstacles are encountered when asking and answering questions about how to care for patients and addressing these obstacles could lead to better patient care by improving clinically oriented information resources.

TL;DR: Clinical resource developers could use the recommendations made by practicing physicians to provide resources that are more useful for answering clinical questions, as physicians do not seek answers to many of their questions and often cannot find the information they need.

TL;DR: A moderate degree of interrater reliability was achieved with the taxonomy developed in this study, which may enhance the understanding of doctors' information needs and improve the ability to meet those needs.

TL;DR: Three types of checklists are described: a general checklist that prompts physicians to optimize their cognitive approach, a differential diagnosis checklist to help physicians avoid the most common cause of diagnostic error, and a checklist of common pitfalls and cognitive forcing functions to improve evaluation of selected diseases.