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How do I find a point-of-care answer to my clinical question?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2015

Andrew Worster  and
R. Brian Haynes
Andrew Worster*
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
R. Brian Haynes*
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
*
ERm 250a McMaster Clinic, Hamilton General Hospital, 237 Barton St. East, Hamilton, ON L8L 2X2
ERm 250a McMaster Clinic, Hamilton General Hospital, 237 Barton St. East, Hamilton, ON L8L 2X2

Abstract

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Emergency physicians often need point-of-care access to current, valid information to guide patient management. Most emergency physicians do not work in a hospital with a computerized decision support system that prompts and provides them with information to answer their clinical questions. Searching for answers to clinical questions online, especially those related to diagnosis and treatment, can be challenging, in part because determining the validity and clinical applicability of the results of individual studies is beyond the time constraints of most emergency physicians. This article describes currently available point-of-care sources of evidence-based information to answer clinical questions and provides the access information for each.

Keywords

clinical informationevidence basedpoint-ofcare
Type
Education • Enseignement
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 31 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2012

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