Tuesday, November 14, 2006

ACP's PIER Named Number One EBM Tool

The South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association conducted a study to determine evaluated EBM tools at the point-of-care and ACP's Physician's Information and Education Resource (PIER) was selected as the leading evidence-based medicine point-of-care tool.

The study, "Systematic Evaluation for Evidence-Based Medicine Tools for Point-of-Care," rated PIER highest in all four categories (general information, content, searching ability, and results) of the evaluation compared to 13 other major evidence-based medicine resources. In addition to receiving the highest composite rating, PIER ranked first in all three subcategories (characteristics of evidence, importance, and level of content and features).

Hmmm very timely news item, I would like to know what the other 13 EBM resources were and how they scored in comparison and why.

1 Comments:

At 4:23 PM, Chris B. IHSLA President said...

The study is available at
http://ils.mdacc.tmc.edu/papers.html

 

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