Increasing access to clinical information on hospital wards.
Medical library information resources can make a positive contribution to the clinical information needs of health care professionals. To increase availability of knowledge-based information and transfer information to its point of use, a CD-ROM resource library was networked and interfaced with the existing hospital information system at Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, Michigan. Clinicians in 21 patient care areas now have access to the patient record, full-text pediatric journal information and the Micromedex CCIS database at one location.
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Medical Library, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit.
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D016251:CD-ROM; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008824:Michigan; D018511:Systems Integration