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Answering clinical questions

M L Chambliss1, J Conley

  • 1Moses Cone Hospital Family Medicine Residency, Greensboro, North Carolina 27401-1007, USA.

The Journal of Family Practice
|August 1, 1996
PubMed
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Physicians can find answers to most clinical questions in medical literature, but it takes time and money. More efficient methods are needed for physicians to answer their clinical questions.

Area of Science:

  • Medical Informatics
  • Clinical Practice Research

Background:

  • Physicians frequently encounter clinical questions without immediate answers.
  • Investigating the accessibility of medical literature for clinical queries is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the frequency with which answers to physicians' clinical questions are available in medical literature.
  • To evaluate the utility of medical literature in addressing physician-initiated clinical inquiries.

Main Methods:

  • Collected unanswered clinical questions from family physicians.
  • Utilized textbooks and MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) to search for answers.
  • Physicians rated the relevance and practice-influencing potential of provided references.

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Main Results:

  • 54% of 86 investigated clinical questions were fully or nearly fully answered.
  • MEDLINE searches yielded answers for 71% of questions, while textbooks provided 20%.
  • MEDLINE searches averaged 27 minutes; textbook searches averaged 6 minutes.

Conclusions:

  • Medical literature can address the majority of clinical questions.
  • Information retrieval from medical literature is time-consuming and costly.
  • There is a need for more efficient clinical question-answering systems for physicians.