title: Evaluating clinical librarians: mixing apple merchants and orange sellers?
abstract: Clinical librarian services have been in existence for over 40 years. Although three systematic reviews have examined clinical librarian roles they continue to pose a challenge to rigorous evaluation. Difficulties can be articulated around their Population, Intervention, Comparator and Outcome (PICO) characteristics as well as within a wider evaluation framework. This feature suggests that developments within health research aimed at evaluating complex interventions may hold the key to assessing the contribution of such a variety of service models.
authors.affiliation: School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield, UK. a.booth@sheffield.ac.uk
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Booth
mesh_terms: D015510:Clinical Medicine; D006801:Humans; D016245:Librarians; D007992:Libraries, Hospital; D007993:Libraries, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration; D007998:Library Science / Q000592:standards; D011361:Professional Competence; D024382:Professional Role; D013222:State Medicine; D000078329:Workforce