Personal digital assistants (PDAs) allow users to access a wide variety of electronic information and software at the point of patient care; however, 62% of the PDA users in this study indicated that they experienced multiple (one or more) barriers to their clinical PDA information retrieval. The majority of the users responded that the lack of software and the lack of PDA memory were the primary barriers. Online searches for medical information can provide immediate access for patient care, but 88% of the respondents used the PDAs for online searching less than once a week. Health science librarians have the skills to provide resources that provide free PDA software and PDA training classes to help eliminate deterrents to PDA use.
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