Impact of a Search Engine on Clinical Decisions Under Time and System Effectiveness Constraints: Research Protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many clinical questions arise during patient encounters that clinicians are unable to answer. An evidence-based medicine approach expects that clinicians will seek and apply the best available evidence to answer clinical questions. One commonly used source of such evidence is scientific literature, such as that available through MEDLINE and PubMed. Clinicians report that 2 key reasons why they do not use search systems to answer questions is that it takes too much time and that they do not expect to find a definitive answer. So, the question remains about how effectively scientific literature search systems support time-pressured clinicians in making better clinical decisions. The results of this study are important because they can help clinicians and health care organi

SUBMITTER: van der Vegt A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6658292 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature