My clinical problem was obesity AND infants AND breastfeeding. The index did help me to search for these results. The readings helped in learning how to narrow the search. The search it
self was not too hard, but I would not use this in a clinical setting. I use "google" mostly along with different electronic journals that I have bookmarked. To use this in clinical practice would be too time consuming, often while I am in the room I will google and then print results for the patient or allow them to read the information with me in the room. An index search would not work in the amount of time I have for teaching. The tool is good for doing general research.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
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Your assessment is accurate, I think. It is very unwieldy to locate clinical information using pubmed. Better sources at the bedside might be micromedex or uptodate... Also - I hope you enjoyed the article on context sensitive information retrieval - it is a growing focus of informatics work...
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