Two pieces of wiki news:
1) Dean Giustini has started the UBC HealthLib-Wiki (A Knowledge-Base for Health Librarians):
The idea is to provide a forum for best practice for health librarians, and other information professionals around the world…….We believe this open-model will more accurately reflect the “wisdom of the field” and bring significant value to the wiki’s knowledge-base.
2) Ganfyd, the clinical wiki, is still going strong and an amazing amount of content is now in there. Due to the distractions of getting the TRIP Database re-designed and free I’ve neglected my input. However, as well as being able to contribute I have, at last, found a way of importing data from ganfyd into TRIP. It’s not a hugely robust way but it should end up covering the vast majority of the content fairly quickly.
We’ve had an awful lot of e-mails thanking us for moving to free-access. One of the first (within 3 hours) was from a UK health librarian:
“This is good news! It’s already helped me to find a piece of guidance I hadn’t found by any other route.”
Protocol for the Quick Clinical study: a randomised controlled trial to assess the impact of an online evidence retrieval system on decision-making in general practice . Although I feel more research is needed in this area I’m not hugely convinced about the meaningfulness of any results from this trial. One can predict that those that used ‘Quick Clinical’ will help change clinician behaviour and support clinical decisions. But, more importantly, it won’t check on patient outcomes.
If we want doctors, nurses etc to incorporate ‘evidence’ into their practice we need them to use it routinely, make it very easy to use and supply ‘nuggets of evidence’. I really don’t think that is controversial.
On an unrelated note and following on from earlier blog-entries about USA about citywide wireless access, Norwich, UK is doing the same (click here for BBC News story). I’m still convinced that wireless access to the internet will be widespread (at least in the ‘developed’ nations) in the not too distant future.
The re-indexed material was added at 9am this morning and so far things are working well with no obvious problems.
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