Canada urgently needs a national network of libraries to access evidence.
Canadian health professionals and their patients are deprived of important evidence to guide health and healthcare decisions, ensure quality and avoid unnecessary deaths because, unlike other developed countries, Canada does not have a national medical library as can be found in the United States' National Library of Medicine and the United Kingdom's National Health Service.
Institute of Population Health, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa. jmcgowan@uottawa.ca
Jessie
J
McGowan
Sharon E
SE
Straus
Peter
P
Tugwell
D002170:Canada; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D019359:Knowledge; D007993:Libraries, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007996:Library Associations; D016243:Library Collection Development; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D039781:PubMed; D014481:United States