Number of Participants Citing Sources as First and Other Information Sources (N = 52)
| Information Source | First Choice When Not Using DynaMed | Listed in “Other Resources Typically Used for Searching”* |
|---|---|---|
| PDA = personal digital assistant. | ||
| * Not counting listings as first choice. Participants could list multiple resources. Additional resources listed were National Guideline Clearinghouse (4 participants), American Academy of Pediatrics (3 paricipants), American College of Physicians (3), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (3 participants), Ovid (3), Bandolier (2), National Institutes of Health sites other than National Library of Medicine/PubMed (2), and Clinical Evidence, “derm sites for rashes,” Dogpile, DrPEN, eMedicine, FamilyDoctor.org, “filed articles,” FPNotebook, “materials from CME meetings,” The Medical Letter, PDxMD, Scharr Netting the Evidence, Stat-Ref, and TRIP Database (1 each). | ||
| † Web portals were typically library search pages. | ||
| ‡ Specific journals and textbooks were typically unnamed. | ||
| § PDA was named without specific sources in 3 cases and with Epocrates given as the source in 2 cases. | ||
| 10 | 9 | |
| American Academy of Family Physicians | 8 | 9 |
| UpToDate | 7 | 8 |
| MDConsult | 6 | 10 |
| Web portal† | 6 | 4 |
| MerckMedicus | 5 | 0 |
| InfoPOEMs | 4 | 4 |
| Medscape | 3 | 2 |
| MEDLINE (or PubMed) | 1 | 16 |
| Yahoo | 1 | 1 |
| WebMD | 1 | 1 |
| Cochrane Library | 0 | 7 |
| Journals‡ | 0 | 6 |
| Textbooks‡ | 0 | 6 |
| PDA§ | 0 | 5 |