Organising access to Evidence-Based Medicine resources on the Web.
The continuing education is a challenge for health care professionals, considering the growing amount and variable quality of information in this field. In this context, we developed a method allowing clinicians to have a centralised access to the best current medical evidence supporting medical decision-making. Relevant data has been gathered according to the rules stated for Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and organised in a free-of-charge Web site, created by using common software applications. The general aim of our study was to encourage individual practice of EBM by providing tutorials as well as a selection of free access tools for searching medical information on the Web. In addition to the education part, we provided clinicians, through a Web interface, with up-to-date, accurate and quality data obtained from heterogeneous sources and presented in a full text format when available. The developed methodology has been applied to human prostate cancer. URL address: http://www.ebm.lib.ulg.ac.be/prostate/index.htm.
Delvenne
Catherine
C
Faculty of Medicine Library, University of Liege, B.35, Liege 4000 (Sart Tilman), Belgium. c.delvenne@ulb.ac.be
Pasleau
Françoise
F
D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004496:Education, Continuing / Q000379:methods; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D019146:Hypermedia; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled