title: PIER- evidence-base medicine from ACP.
abstract: PIER has been available directly to physicians from the American College of Physicians (ACP) for some time, but it has only recently become available to libraries via the STAT!Ref suite of electronic resources. PIER is designed specifically for the practicing internist, and it offers a uniform search structure that is meant to be searched the way physicians work through their medical cases, going from diagnosis to treatment. All of the information content in PIER is evidence-based and consists of clinical practice guidelines and recommendations.
authors.affiliation: Ehrman Medical Library, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA. tomasulo@library.med.nyu.edu
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tomasulo
mesh_terms: D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education / Q000592:standards*; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface