Liječnički vjesnik, Vol. 136 No. 1-2, 2014.
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ONLINE INFORMATION SERVICE: THE LIBRARY SUPPORT FOR EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
Helena Markulin
Jelka Petrak
Abstract
It frequently happens that physicians do not have adequate skills or enough time for searching and evaluating evidence needed in their everyday practice. Medical librarian can serve as a mediator in enabling physicians to utilize the potential offered by contemporary evidence-based medicine. The Central Medical Library (CML) at University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, designed a web-based information service aimed at the promotion of evidence-based practice in the Croatian medical community. The users can ask for a help in finding information on their clinical problems. A responsible librarian will analyse the problem, search information resources and evaluate the evidence. The answer is returned to the user by an e-mail. In the 2008-2012 period 166 questions from 12 clinical fields were received and most of them (36.1%) came from internal medicine doctors. The share of treatment-related questions was 70.5%. In the setting of underdeveloped ICT infrastructure and inadequate EBM resources availability, such information service can help in transfer of scientific evidence into the everyday clinical practice.
Keywords
Evidence-based medicine; Libraries, medical – organisation and administration; Information services – statistics and numerical data; Information storage and retrieval – methods
Hrčak ID:
172587
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Publication date:
27.2.2014.
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