1 / 20

Improving Access to Information during Rounds through Librarian Support

This initiative aims to improve access to evidence-based medical information for residents during their rounds at the Duke/Southern Regional AHEC Family Medicine Residency Program. An Information Resources Specialist attends weekly rounds to help residents formulate questions, conduct literature searches, and share relevant articles via a digital library blog. The program has received positive feedback, with 97% of residents satisfied with the librarian's support and most affirming the usefulness of provided articles. Challenges included variable internet access and resource limitations, yet the program continues to offer valuable educational benefits.

lucius
Télécharger la présentation

Improving Access to Information during Rounds through Librarian Support

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Improving Access to Information during Rounds through Librarian Support Lisa Olsen Kilburn Information Resources Specialist Southern Regional AHEC October 2010

  2. Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education General Competencies • Practice-based Learning and Improvement • locate, appraise, and assimilate evidence from scientific studies related to their patients’ health problems (aka evidence based medicine) • use information technology to manage information, access on-line medical information; and support their own education

  3. The Problem • Searching the literature takes time • Residents are very busy

  4. Duke/Southern Regional AHEC Family Medicine Residency Program • MD and DO Family Medicine Residency • Fayetteville, North Carolina • 21 residents • 8 four week rotations on Inpatient Medicine seeing patients at Cape Fear Medical Center • Average 10 – 15 patients on service

  5. Medical Rounds • Schedule • Residents start rounding on patients at 7 am • Meeting at 10 am to discuss assessment and plan • In attendance • Attending physician • 2 to 5 residents • Attending pharmacist • Pharmacy resident • Medical and pharmacy students

  6. Intervention by the Information Resources Specialist • Attend rounds once a week • Prompt the residents to develop questions • Research the questions • Post links to relevant articles to a blog on the AHEC Digital Library • Post the search strategy used • Email the articles to the faculty and residents • Finish everything before the end of the day

  7. Resident Requirements • Complete a search request form with the question in PICO format • Ask 2 questions per year • Review the posted articles • Post 2 comments • Present articles to medicine team • Deadline: Third quarter evaluation

  8. Technical Challenges • Residents access to the internet and thus the blog was somewhat variable • Some links required tech support to create • Online textbooks were difficult to work with • Due to licensing agreements with publishers, rotating medical and pharmacy students usually did not have access to the blog

  9. Participant Satisfaction Surveys • November 2009 (4 month) • 66% response rate • 68% of residents • June 2010 (1 year) • 59% response rate • 50% of residents • Handed out at noon conference • Missing participants were sent the survey via email and inter-office mail • Collected by the Residency Coordinator and the library

  10. Survey Results in Aggregate • 97% were “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the librarian presence • 94% rated the articles as “moderately” or “extremely” useful • 25% admitted they would not have done the research on their own • 85% voted to continue the program

  11. Responses by Position Residents • Resistance due to the perceived increased workload • 2 votes to cancel the program (1 maybe) • 90% spent less than 30 minutes reviewing the articles • 100% spent less than 15 minutes commenting on the articles Faculty • Strong support from the Residency Director • Variable support from faculty • Presentation at rounds • Rotating faculty • Faculty turnover

  12. Use of Posted Articles

  13. Began emailing articles

  14. Most Frequently Cited Journals • New England Journal of Medicine (9) • Annals of Internal Medicine (6) • Chest (5) • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (4) • Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis (4) • Lancet (4) • Annals of Emergency Medicine (3) • CDC website (3) • Critical Care Medicine (3) • Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy (3) • Neurology (3)

  15. Outcomes Benefits • Questions regarding clinic patients as well as hospitalized patients • Questions outside of the weekly visit • Increased visibility for the library Challenges • Faculty and resident preference for review articles • Medically difficult questions • Articles not received in time to affect patient care • Medicine team personality

  16. Conclusion • The program is ongoing • Benefits to both the residency and the library • Could easily to adapted to other institutions

More Related