Survey evaluates the impact of librarian-mediated literature searches on clinical practice and patient outcomes, suggesting their critical role in healthcare.
Our survey-based evaluation of our literature search service underscores the importance of librarian-mediated literature searches for clinical practice, policy development, and patient care. Demonstrating hospital library impacts is increasingly important and increasingly challenging for understaffed teams. Assessments using previously published surveys are feasible for non-academic libraries and serve as compelling cases for the continued and expanded integration of library resources into clinical practice and decision-making.
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