Supporting the value of information in your enterprise. How?

Features: Article

All FreePint Articles | Article Categories |

Making a Difference to Patient Care: Using Evidence Based Medicine [ABSTRACT]
Wednesday, 3rd September 2008 Please login to be able to star items

By Zena Woodley

Abstract:

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a means of aiding doctors find information to optimise the care they give their patients. While some worry about the influence that health economics has on the adoption of EBM, Zena Woodley provides real-world examples of EBM success from information practitioners.

Article:

What's Inside:

One [EBM example] I can remember from recent times: I was asked to do a search in the morning, I handed the paper(s) over to the surgeons concerned who (following a quick appraisal) then changed the operation they were going to perform on the basis of the evidence gathered by our search.

---

This is a brief abstract of the full article. FUMSI subscribers can log in to MyShop at FreePint view the full article. Others can subscribe to FUMSI now for access to the complete archive of FUMSI articles.

By Zena Woodley

Zena Woodley believes that, in a strange way, all her previous jobs have been preparation for her present post, in the Warner Library of Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford. She has worked in a whole string of specialist information services, including (among many others) Inmos, Arup, Hydraulics Research Ltd and Verdict, as well as the information services of both Aslib and CILIP. Now she's been successful in moving the Warner from its former very medical focus more into the centre stream, reminding people that its strapline is ‘The Warner Library: working for ALL'. In the wider profession, she'll be representing Essex health library and information professionals at county level in the coming year, as well as being closely involved with the East of England Confederations Library & Knowledge Services Alliance.