title: What did they know? And when did they know it? Progress in helping clinicians reach decisions.
abstract: In the past three decades, knowledge professionals have made remarkable strides toward achieving clinicians' decision-support dream of immediately available short answers. Medical evidence, what is truly known about health care effects and ready to be applied in patient care, can now much more easily be identified. Today's information delivery tools enable clinicians to seek answers to many more of their questions and to find the answers when patient encounters and teachable moments are occurring. Excerpted from a state health sciences library association presentation, this paper highlights efforts to speed clinician adoption of health care discoveries into routine patient care.
authors.affiliation: Dekalb Medical Center, 2701 North Decatur Road, Decatur, GA, 30033, USA. mgbarry@dkmc.org
authors.forename: Marilyn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barry
mesh_terms: D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D008490:Medical Informatics; D035501:Uncertainty; D014481:United States