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MEDLINE as a source of just-in-time answers to clinical questions.
Article in AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review of healthcare applications for smartphones.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2012Pooled it
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- Literature search: Simple rules for confronting theMedical journal, Armed Forces India · 2022Review
- Examining the role of MEDLINE as a patient care information resource: an analysis of data from the Value of Libraries study.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2017Article
- Automatic identification of comparative effectiveness research from medline citations to support clinicians' treatment information needs.Studies in health technology and informatics · 2013Article
- MEDLINE clinical queries are robust when searching in recent publishing years.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIAArticle
- Knowledge-based methods to help clinicians find answers in MEDLINE.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIAArticle
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6 authors.
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Abstract
Clinicians increasingly use handheld devices to support evidence-based practice and for clinical decision support. However, support of clinical decisions through information retrieval from MEDLINE(R) and other databases lags behind popular daily activities such as patient information or drug formulary look-up. The objective of the current study is to determine whether relevant information can be retrieved from MEDLINE to answer clinical questions using a handheld device at the point of care. Analysis of search and retrieval results for 108 clinical questions asked by members of clinical teams during 28 daily rounds in a 12-bed intensive care unit confirm MEDLINE as a potentially valuable resource for just-in-time answers to clinical questions. Answers to 93 (86%) questions were found in MEDLINE by two resident physicians using handheld devices. The majority of answers, 88.9% and 97.7% respectively, were found during rounds. Strategies that facilitated timely retrieval of results include using PubMed(R) Clinical Queries and Related Articles, spell check, and organizing retrieval results into topical clusters. Further possible improvements in organization of retrieval results such as automatic semantic clustering and providing patient outcome information along with the titles of the retrieved articles are discussed.
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