ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Using wireless handheld computers to seek information at the point of care: an evaluation by clinicians.
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions to increase the use of electronic health information by healthcare practitioners to improve clinical practice and patient outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- A systematic review of healthcare applications for smartphones.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2012Pooled it
- Breadth of Coverage, Ease of Use, and Quality of Mobile Point-of-Care Tool Information Summaries: An Evaluation.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2016Article
- Interactive use of online health resources: a comparison of consumer and professional questions.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2016Article
- Feasibility of Extracting Key Elements from ClinicalTrials.gov to Support Clinicians' Patient Care Decisions.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2016Article
- Infobutton usage in Patient Portal MyHealth.AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science · 2015Article
- Enabling locally-developed content for access through the infobutton by means of automated concept annotation.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2014Article
- Automatically extracting clinically useful sentences from UpToDate to support clinicians' information needs.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2013Article
- Critical factors for the adoption of mobile nursing information systems in Taiwan: the nursing department administrators' perspective.Journal of medical systems · 2009Article
- Analysis of queries sent to PubMed at the point of care: observation of search behaviour in a medical teaching hospital.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2008Article
- Understanding the mobile internet to develop the next generation of online medical teaching tools.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIAArticle
- Voice capture of medical residents' clinical information needs during an inpatient rotation.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIAArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate: (1) the effectiveness of wireless handheld computers for online information retrieval in clinical settings; (2) the role of MEDLINE in answering clinical questions raised at the point of care.
designA prospective single-cohort study: accompanying medical teams on teaching rounds, five internal medicine residents used and evaluated MD on Tap, an application for handheld computers, to seek answers in real time to clinical questions arising at the point of care. MEASUREMENTS: All transactions were stored by an intermediate server. Evaluators recorded clinical scenarios and questions, identified MEDLINE citations that answered the questions, and submitted daily and summative reports of their experience. A senior medical librarian corroborated the relevance of the selected citation to each scenario and question.
resultsEvaluators answered 68% of 363 background and foreground clinical questions during rounding sessions using a variety of MD on Tap features in an average session length of less than four minutes. The evaluator, the number and quality of query terms, the total number of citations found for a query, and the use of auto-spellcheck significantly contributed to the probability of query success.
conclusionHandheld computers with Internet access are useful tools for healthcare providers to access MEDLINE in real time. MEDLINE citations can answer specific clinical questions when several medical terms are used to form a query. The MD on Tap application is an effective interface to MEDLINE in clinical settings, allowing clinicians to quickly find relevant citations.
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