Experience and outcomes of medical librarian rounding.
This article highlights the positive results that can be achieved when a medical librarian rounds with a community hospital's Multidisciplinary Rounds (MDR) team. Background is provided on the rounding process on the hospital's Intensive Care Unit, and case studies report outcomes of the librarian's research. Noteworthy are changes in protocols and changes in patient care which were implemented based, in part, on studies supplied by the librarian.
Brandes
Susan
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Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center, Lafayette, CO 80026, USA. brandess@exempla.org
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