title: Stay tuned. Comparison of journal updates tracking using RSS and e-mail technologies.
abstract: Electronic subscription alerts provide new possibilities for health care providers to stay abreast with current literature and practice evidence-based medicine. During a 5 month prospective observation we compared the performance of the three common subscription methods: email and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) from the publisher and RSS from PubMed. The 3 methods were reliably updated without interruption in service but demonstrated significant variability in the contents and timing.
authors.affiliation: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rethlefsen
authors.forename: Melissa L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Rethlefsen
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Gajic
authors.forename: Ognjen
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Gajic
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Herasevich
authors.forename: Vitaly
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Herasevich
mesh_terms: D034742:Electronic Mail / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000145:classification* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States