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Dr. Alper and colleagues have made an important contribution to the literature on the use of point-of-care clinical evidence seeking using currently available databases and technologies with this manuscript. This study adds to other point-of-care literature that has shown improved patient outcomes using computer decision support in different settings. Several of these studies have involved handheld computers as an idea...
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Five minutes for finding an answer is clearly much better than the thirty minutes previously published using MEDLINE, and this justifies searching for the most important questions.
Yet five minutes is still too long for many settings where patient visits can last less than fifteen minutes. The good news is that we can do better than five minutes.
The research grant supporting this study had three object...
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As Dr. Alper and his colleagues provide an important contribution(1)to primary care by demonstrating the utility of an online database of synthesized evidence in answering real-time questions for clinicians. Most of us in primary care identify our own knowledge deficits in routine work, and we wish, for our patients' benefit, these deficits could be resolved quickly and accurately within a workplace learning environmen...
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As the information demands on clinicians continue to escalate, research that investigates effective means of supporting their access to accurate and timely information is imperative. Alper et al.(1)have made an important contribution by examining the use of a specific system when used in everyday practice. There is now a body of evidence demonstrating that hospital-based health professionals and family physicians are abl...
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I would like to gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Alper and colleagues (1), and to comment this benchmarking study in line with our literature review on the impact assessment of databases (2). Alper and colleagues’ trial shows that information derived from a synopsis-based database improves clinical decision-making compared with information derived from other sources. However, outcomes were self-reported by par...
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