[Online information service: the library support for evidence-based practice].
It frequently happens that physicians do not have adequate skills or enough time for searching and evaluating evidence needed in their everyday practice. Medical librarian can serve as a mediator in enabling physicians to utilize the potential offered by contemporary evidence-based medicine. The Central Medical Library (CML) at University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, designed a web-based information service aimed at the promotion of evidence-based practice in the Croatian medical community. The users can ask for a help in finding information on their clinical problems. A responsible librarian will analyse the problem, search information resources and evaluate the evidence. The answer is returned to the user by an e-mail. In the 2008-2012 period 166 questions from 12 clinical fields were received and most of them (36.1%) came from internal medicine doctors. The share of treatment-related questions was 70.5%. In the setting of underdeveloped ICT infrastructure and inadequate EBM resources availability, such information service can help in transfer of scientific evidence into the everyday clinical practice.
Helena
H
Markulin
Jelka
J
Petrak
D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D017523:Croatia; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D007999:Library Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards*; D009862:Online Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic