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CD-ROM MEDLINE use and users: information transfer in the clinical setting
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| Title: | CD-ROM MEDLINE use and users: information transfer in the clinical setting |
| Authors: | Dalrymple, Prudence W. |
| Keywords: | MEDLINE
information-seeking behavior
health sciences librarian |
| Issue Date: | 14-Jan-2010 |
| Abstract: | Effective delivery of biomedical information to health professionals depends on the availability of systems that are compatible with the information-seeking patterns of health professionals. MEDLINE is a major source of biomedical information, but has been available primarily through libraries via telecommunications networks. The recent availability of MEDLINE on CD-ROM has made it possible to provide MEDLINE directly to clinicians without the associated problems of telecommunications and online use charges. The MEDLINE on CD-ROM Evaluation Forum sponsored by the National Library of Medicine reported on clinicians' use of CD-ROM MEDLINE at seven different clinical settings. This article summarizes the findings from these sites and places them in the context of current understanding of information-seeking behaviors of health
professionals. Key issues in the design and development of information technologies in the clinical setting are also articulated. |
| Description: | Published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 78 (1990): 224 232 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1860/3178 |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty Research and Publications (IST)
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