ReviewJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA2002
When less is more: a practical approach to searching for evidence-based answers.
Review in Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Printed educational materials: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Printed educational materials: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Using a systematic review in clinical decision making: a pilot parallel, randomized controlled trial.Implementation science : IS · 2015Trial
- Professional medical education approaches: mobilizing evidence for clinicians.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Review
- Classifying information-sharing methods.BMC medical research methodology · 2021Article
- Implementing an initiative to promote evidence-informed practice: part 1 - a description of the Evidence Rounds programme.BMC medical education · 2019Article
- The role of librarians in teaching evidence-based medicine to pediatric residents: a survey of pediatric residency program directors.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2017Article
- Unanswered clinical questions: a survey of specialists and primary care providers.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2017Article
- The design, fate and impact of a hospital-wide training program in evidence-based medicine for physicians - an observational study.BMC medical education · 2016Observational
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- Point of care information services: a platform for self-directed continuing medical education for front line decision makers.Postgraduate medical journal · 2015Review
- An iterative evaluation of two shortened systematic review formats for clinicians: a focus group study.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2014Article
- Evaluating factors affecting the implementation of evidence based medicine in primary healthcare centers in Dubai.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2014Article
- Development of two shortened systematic review formats for clinicians.Implementation science : IS · 2013Article
- Decision boxes for clinicians to support evidence-based practice and shared decision making: the user experience.Implementation science : IS · 2012Article
- Evidence-based information-seeking behaviors of occupational therapists: a survey of recent graduates.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2011Article
- Evidence-based resources simplified.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2008Article
- Evaluating the professional libraries of practicing physical therapists.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2007Article
- Generating executable knowledge for evidence-based medicine using natural language and semantic processing.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2006Article
- A clinically rooted approach to Knowledge Management in a large Italian community hospital.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2003Article
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Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
The information needs of practicing clinicians are distinct from the needs of students, researchers, or nonclinical personnel. Clinicians seek information to stay current with new relevant medical developments and to find answers to patient-specific questions. The volume of available information makes clinicians' tasks of rapidly identifying high-quality studies daunting. New tools evaluate the rigor and relevance of information and summarize it in the form of synthesized clinical answers. These sources have the opposite focus of many other information tools in that they strive to provide less information rather than more. With the development of these sources of validated and refined information, a new search approach is needed to locate clinical information in which speed is the benchmark. The existing medical literature, including these new refinement tools, can be conceptualized as a pyramid, with the most useful information, based on validity and relevance, placed at the apex. Use of this hierarchy allows searchers to drill down through progressive layers until they find their answers. Librarians can play a significant role in evaluating the ever-increasing variety of these synthesized resources, placing them into the searching hierarchy, and training clinicians to search from the top down.
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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.