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Evidence-Based Answering Service : a Croatian Experience

It frequently happens that physicians do not have adequate skills or enough time for searching and evaluating evidence needed in their everyday practice. Medical librarian can serve as a mediator in enabling physicians to utilize the potential offered by contemporary evidence- based medicine. The Central Medical Library (CML) and the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ), both affiliated to the Zagreb University School of Medicine, designed a web-based information service aimed at the promotion of evidence-based practice in the Croatian medical community. This service, named CMJ Answers Your Clinical Question, has become accessible at the journal's web site. The users can ask for a help in finding information on their clinical problems. A responsible librarian (with MD degree) will analyse the problem, search information resources and evaluate the evidence. The answer is returned to the user by an e-mail. Such information service can help in transfer of scientific evidence into the everyday clinical practice.

evidence- based medicine ; librarians ; information services

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