Trial reportJournal of general internal medicine2007
Real-time EBM: from bed board to keyboard and back.
Trial report in Journal of general internal medicine, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of educational interventions for improving healthcare professionals' information literacy: A systematic review.Health information and libraries journal · 2025Pooled it
- Instructional methods used by health sciences librarians to teach evidence-based practice (EBP): a systematic review.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2016Pooled it
- A systematic review of how studies describe educational interventions for evidence-based practice: stage 1 of the development of a reporting guideline.BMC medical education · 2014Pooled it
- Interventions for promoting information and communication technologies adoption in healthcare professionals.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2009Pooled it
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- Highlighting a valuable dimension in health care librarianship: A systematic review.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2018Article
- Sensitivity and predictive value of 15 PubMed search strategies to answer clinical questions rated against full systematic reviews.Journal of medical Internet research · 2012Review
- Problem-oriented drug information: physicians' expectations and impact on clinical practice.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2009Article
- How residents and interns utilise and perceive the personal digital assistant and UpToDate.BMC medical education · 2008Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundTo practice Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), physicians must quickly retrieve evidence to inform medical decisions. Internal Medicine (IM) residents receive little formal education in electronic database searching, and have identified poor searching skills as a barrier to practicing EBM.
objectiveTo design and implement a database searching tutorial for IM residents on inpatient rotations and to evaluate its impact on residents' skill and comfort searching MEDLINE and filtered EBM resources.
designRandomized controlled trial. Residents randomized to the searching tutorial met for up to 6 1-hour small group sessions to search for answers to questions about current hospitalized patients.
participantsSecond- and 3rd-year IM residents. MEASUREMENTS: Residents in both groups completed an Objective Structured Searching Evaluation (OSSE), searching for primary evidence to answer 5 clinical questions. OSSE outcomes were the number of successful searches, search times, and techniques utilized. Participants also completed self-assessment surveys measuring frequency and comfort using EBM databases.
resultsDuring the OSSE, residents who participated in the intervention utilized more searching techniques overall (p < .01) and used PubMed's Clinical Queries more often (p < .001) than control residents. Searching "success" and time per completed search did not differ between groups. Compared with controls, intervention residents reported greater comfort using MEDLINE (p < .05) and the Cochrane Library (p < .05) on post-intervention surveys. The groups did not differ in comfort using ACP Journal Club, or in self-reported frequency of use of any databases.
conclusionsAn inpatient EBM searching tutorial improved searching techniques of IM residents and resulted in increased comfort with MEDLINE and the Cochrane Library, but did not impact overall searching success.
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