This is something where you should be working with your health services
librarians. Technology provides optons for timely delivery of full-text,
but getting the job done requires sufficient professional and clerical
staff. Should health professionals spend their time photocopying and or
scanning to Fax when a fully staffed library could offer this service?
Librarians sound self-serving when they lobby for appropriate funding - we
need your support!
Peg
Margaret (Peg) Allen, MLS-AHIP mailto:[log in to unmask]
Library/Information Consultant
Resource Librarian Consultant for Cinahl Information Systems, Inc.
http://www.cinahl.com/
Project Director, Northwoods HealthNet, Northern Wisconsin AHEC, Inc.
http://home.dwave.net/~nahec/nwhn/
PO Box 2, 308 Kann, Stratford, WI 54484-0002
(715)687-4976 or (715)687-2287 Fax:(715)687-4976
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From: Toby Lipman 7, Collingwood Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne. Tel
0191-2811060 (home), 0191-2869178 (surgery) <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Saturday, February 06, 1999 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: Preventing osteoporosis in woman with h/o kidney stone
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>The big problem is when you realise you need the full text. It's just not
practical to go to the postgrad centre and photocopy the paper each time.
Sometimes you can be fortunate in having someone who will do it for you (for
instance we are fortunate as we have a pharmacist/advisor who is very keen
to look at the evidence and will obtain full texts if
we ask - but she's only in once a week and we don't like to impose too much
as it's not her job, strictly speaking, to do messages like this for us, so
I only ask her if it's somthing she's directly involved in, like at the
moment we're looking at short and long antibiotic courses for UTI)
>
>I'm increasingly irritated that IM & T implementation does not include a
strategy for getting full texts to clinicians quickly. Those managers I've
spoken to about it don't even understand why it might be important and
they're more concerned with whether we've an armed guard on each PC before
we get connected to the NHS net!
>
>We need to emphasise that getting information like this to clinicians
quickly and routinely needs an infrastructure and is now government policy
in the UK as part of clinical governance ("evidence-based practice in daily
use with the infrastructure to support it")
>
>I think it'll come sooner or later, but we should all apply pressure to
make it sooner!
>
Yes!
Margaret (Peg) Allen, MLS-AHIP mailto:[log in to unmask]
Library/Information Consultant
Resource Librarian Consultant for Cinahl Information Systems, Inc.
http://www.cinahl.com/
Project Director, Northwoods HealthNet, Northern Wisconsin AHEC, Inc.
http://home.dwave.net/~nahec/nwhn/
PO Box 2, 308 Kann, Stratford, WI 54484-0002
(715)687-4976 or (715)687-2287 Fax:(715)687-4976
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