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The contribution of information technology to improving clinicians' access to high quality evidence
1University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, United Kingdom.
International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine
|January 22, 2000
Abstract
Objective:
Rapid access to the results of high quality research studies for real time use during clinical care is the aim of evidence-based medicine.
Methods:
The current volume and methods of disseminating research findings are barriers to this goal. Electronic publishing, CD-ROMs for personal computers, and Internet-based databases and searching are tools helping to overcome these barriers.
Results:
Several examples in the United Kingdom and United States employing these tools are described.
Conclusions:
Technology is making traditional narrative reviews such as printed textbooks obsolete for the practice of evidence-based medicine.