Education

Report of a National Review of NHS Health Library Services in England: from Knowledge to Health in the 21st century
This report has been produced by Professor Peter Hill. He has carried out a review of NHS Library Services in England, making 50 recommendations and identifying four main purposes of health library services:

• Clinical decision making by patients, their carers as appropriate, and health professionals
• Commissioning decision and health policy making
• Research
• Lifelong learning by health professionals

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Management

Evidence-based management as a tool for special libraries
B Fisher, D Robertson
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2007, 2(4), pp36-35
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Knowledge Improvement

Nursing professionals use and value information but favour work-based sources and colleagues in preference to libraries
A Booth
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2007, 2(4), pp92-94
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Clinical librarian programs may lead to information behaviour change
ML Brown
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2007, 2(4), pp77-79
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Do clinical librarians matter? The first randomized controlled trial in librarianship
J Eldredge
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2007, 2(4), pp84-87
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Decision-Making

Hospital libraries have a positive impact on clinical decision making and patient care
MI Preddie
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2007, 2(4), pp104-107
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Performance of a web-based clinical diagnosis support system for internists
M Graber, A Mathew
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2008, 23(suppl 1), pp37-40
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Computerized clinical decision support: will it transform healthcare?
B Chaudhry
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2008, 23(suppl 1), pp85-87
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