Providing Doctors With High-Quality Information: An Updated Evaluation of Web-Based Point-of-Care Information Summaries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The complexity of modern practice requires health professionals to be active information-seekers.

Objective

Our aim was to review the quality and progress of point-of-care information summaries-Web-based medical compendia that are specifically designed to deliver pre-digested, rapidly accessible, comprehensive, and periodically updated information to health care providers. We aimed to evaluate product claims of being evidence-based.

Methods

We updated our previous evaluations by searching Medline, Google, librarian association websites, and conference proceedings from August 2012 to December 2014. We included Web-based, regularly updated point-of-care information summaries with claims of being evidence-based. We extracted data on the general characteristics

SUBMITTER: Kwag KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4738183 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature