Effects of librarian-provided services in healthcare settings: a systematic review.

CONCLUSIONS: Librarian-provided services directed to participants in training programs (eg, students, residents) improve skills in searching the literature to facilitate the integration of research evidence into clinical decision-making. Services provided to clinicians were shown to be effective in saving time for health professionals and providing relevant information for decision-making. Two studies indicated patient length of stay was reduced when clinicians requested literature searches related to a patient's case. PMID: 24872341 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - May 28, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Perrier L, Farrell A, Ayala AP, Lightfoot D, Kenny T, Aaronson E, Allee N, Brigham T, Connor E, Constantinescu T, Muellenbach J, Epstein HA, Weiss A Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: research