Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29962917›Full record

ArticleJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA2018

Updating professional development for medical librarians to improve our evidence-based medicine and information literacy instruction.

Joseph Costello

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Article in Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from 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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Joseph CostelloInformationist, Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.ORCID 0000-0002-0412-6562

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medical librarians lack professional development opportunities in the critical appraisal of biomedical evidence. An update to our professional development opportunities could support our efforts to teach critical appraisal of biomedical evidence during evidence-based medicine or information literacy instruction. If we enhance our understanding of latent influences on evidence quality-such as changes to Food and Drug Administration regulations, predatory or deceptive publishing practices, and clinical trial study designs-we can improve our value to medical education and hospital systems.

Indexed as

Information LiteracyCurriculumEvidence-Based MedicineHumansLibrariansLibraries, Medical

Identifiers

PMID29962917
PMCPMC6013125

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