Factors associated with successful answering of clinical questions using an information retrieval system

• Published in: Bulletin of the Medical Library Association Vol. 88; no. 4; pp. 323 - 331
• Main Authors: HERSH, William R, CRABTREE, M. Katherine, HICKAM, David H, SACHEREK, Lynetta, ROSE, Linda, FRIEDMAN, Charles P
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago, IL Medical Library Association 01.10.2000
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis of Variance; Attitude; Clinical Medicine; Cognition; Computer Literacy; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Doctors; Exact sciences and technology; Female; Humans; Information and communication sciences; Information processing and retrieval; Information retrieval. Man machine relationship; Information science. Documentation; Information seeking behaviour; Information Systems - utilization; Library and information science. General aspects; Male; Medicine; MEDLINE; Nurse Practitioners - education; Nurses; Online information retrieval; Personality; Research process. Evaluation; Sciences and techniques of general use; Searching; Students; Students, Medical; Students, Nursing; Surveys and Questionnaires; Use and user studies. Information needs; User surveys; Medicine; Information system; Biomedical information; User study; Information retrieval; Bibliographic database; Student; Effectiveness factor; User behavior

Despite the growing use of online databases by clinicians, there has been very little research documenting how effectively they are used. This study assessed the ability of medical and nurse-practitioner students to answer clinical questions using an information retrieval system. It also attempted t...