Trial reportPloS one2011
To compare PubMed Clinical Queries and UpToDate in teaching information mastery to clinical residents: a crossover randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in PloS one, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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
18 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- Integrating UpToDate with case-based learning enhances residents' clinical decision-making and training satisfaction in critical care training.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Hospital Use of a Web-Based Clinical Knowledge Support System and In-Training Examination Performance Among Postgraduate Resident Physicians in Japan: Nationwide Observational Study.JMIR medical education · 2024Observational
- Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Evidence-Based Medicine among Emergency Doctors in Kelantan, Malaysia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- UpToDate versus DynaMed: a cross-sectional study comparing the speed and accuracy of two point-of-care information tools.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2021Article
- Using a Collaborative, Virtual Discussion Platform to Mobilize Oncologic Expertise for the COVID-19 Pandemic.JCO clinical cancer informatics · 2020Article
- Exploratory Study of Signals for Asthma Drugs in Children, Using the EudraVigilance Database of Spontaneous Reports.Drug safety · 2020Article
- Automatic identification of recent high impact clinical articles in PubMed to support clinical decision making using time-agnostic features.Journal of biomedical informatics · 2019Article
- Classification of clinically useful sentences in clinical evidence resources.Journal of biomedical informatics · 2016Article
- Analysis of PubMed User Sessions Using a Full-Day PubMed Query Log: A Comparison of Experienced and Nonexperienced PubMed Users.JMIR medical informatics · 2015Article
- Information-Seeking Behaviors of Medical Students: A Cross-Sectional Web-Based Survey.JMIR medical education · 2015Article
- Article
- Classification of Clinically Useful Sentences in MEDLINE.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2015Article
- Pharmacist perception and use of UpToDate®.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2014Article
- A survey of the current utilization of asynchronous education among emergency medicine residents in the United States.Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges · 2014Article
- Speed and accuracy of a point of care web-based knowledge resource for clinicians: a controlled crossover trial.Interactive journal of medical research · 2014Article
- Survey of user preferences from a comparative trial of UpToDate and ClinicalKey.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2013Article
- Features of effective medical knowledge resources to support point of care learning: a focus group study.PloS one · 2013Article
- Information seeking behavior and awareness among physicians regarding drug information centers in Saudi Arabia.Pharmacy practiceArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeTo compare PubMed Clinical Queries and UpToDate regarding the amount and speed of information retrieval and users' satisfaction.
methodA cross-over randomized trial was conducted in February 2009 in Tehran University of Medical Sciences that included 44 year-one or two residents who participated in an information mastery workshop. A one-hour lecture on the principles of information mastery was organized followed by self learning slide shows before using each database. Subsequently, participants were randomly assigned to answer 2 clinical scenarios using either UpToDate or PubMed Clinical Queries then crossed to use the other database to answer 2 different clinical scenarios. The proportion of relevantly answered clinical scenarios, time to answer retrieval, and users' satisfaction were measured in each database.
resultsBased on intention-to-treat analysis, participants retrieved the answer of 67 (76%) questions using UpToDate and 38 (43%) questions using PubMed Clinical Queries (P<0.001). The median time to answer retrieval was 17 min (95% CI: 16 to 18) using UpToDate compared to 29 min (95% CI: 26 to 32) using PubMed Clinical Queries (P<0.001). The satisfaction with the accuracy of retrieved answers, interaction with UpToDate and also overall satisfaction were higher among UpToDate users compared to PubMed Clinical Queries users (P<0.001).
conclusionsFor first time users, using UpToDate compared to Pubmed Clinical Queries can lead to not only a higher proportion of relevant answer retrieval within a shorter time, but also a higher users' satisfaction. So, addition of tutoring pre-appraised sources such as UpToDate to the information mastery curricula seems to be highly efficient.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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.