Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33424474›Full record

ArticleJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA2021

Why are they not accessing it? User barriers to clinical information access.

Elizabeth Laera, Karen Gutzman, Angela Spencer, Charlotte Beyer, Saskia Bolore, John Gallagher, Sean Pidgeon, Ryan Rodriguez

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Article in Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

8 authors at 8 institutions in 3 countries.

Elizabeth Laeraelizabeth.laera@bhsala.com, Medical Librarian, McMahon-Sibley Medical Library, Brookwood Baptist Health, Birmingham, AL.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2325-0793
Karen Gutzmankaren.gutzman@northwestern.edu, Head, Research Assessment and Communications, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.ORCID 0000-0001-6331-4451
Angela Spencerangela.spencer@slu.edu, Assistant Professor, Medical Center Library, Saint Louis University, St. Louis MO.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6233-053X
Charlotte Beyercharlotte.beyer@rosalindfranklin.edu, Library Director, Boxer Library, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL.
Saskia Boloresaskia.bolore@ama-assn.org, Sales Manager, JAMA Network, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL.
John Gallagherjohn.gallagher@yale.edu, Director, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0952-1067
Sean Pidgeonsean.pidgeon@oup.com, Publishing Director, Science & Medicine, Oxford University Press, New York, NY.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6888-5659
Ryan Rodriguezrrodriguez@bmj.com, Customer Engagement Manager, BMJ, Hoboken, NJ.
American Medical Association · USBrookwood Baptist Health · USNew York University Press · USNorthwestern University · USRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science · USSaint Louis University · USTashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers · UZWhitney Museum of American Art · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Medical Library Association's InSight Initiative provides an open and collaborative environment for library and industry partners to discuss vexing problems and find solutions to better serve their users. The initiative's fifth summit, continuing work from the previous summit, focused on understanding how users discover and access information in the clinical environment. During the summit, participants were divided into working groups and encouraged to create a tangible product as a result of their discussions. At the end of the summit, participants established a framework for understanding users' pain points, discussed possible solutions to those points, and received feedback on their work from an End User Advisory Board comprising physicians, clinical researchers, and clinical faculty in biomedicine. In addition to the pain point framework, participants are developing MLA InSight Initiative Learning content with modules to educate librarians and publishers about critical aspects of user behavior. The 2020 Insight Initiative Fall Forum will serve as a virtual home for constructive dialogue between health sciences librarians and publishers on improving discovery and access to information.

Indexed as

Access to InformationInformation Seeking BehaviorHumansLibrariansLibraries, MedicalLibrary ServicesPeriodicals as Topic

Identifiers

PMID33424474
PMCPMC7772983
OpenAlexW3120125240

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

None linked

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.