Organising access to evidence-based medicine resources on the web

[en] The continuing education is a challenge for health care professionals, considering the growing amount and variable quality of information in this field. In this context, we developed a method allowing clinicians to have a centralised access to the best current medical evidence supporting medical decision-making. Relevant data has been gathered according to the rules stated for Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and organised in a free-of-charge Web site, created by using common software applications. The general aim of our study was to encourage individual practice of EBM by providing tutorials as well as a selection of free access tools for searching medical information on the Web. In addition to the education part, we provided clinicians, through a Web interface, with up-to-date, accurate and quality data obtained from heterogeneous sources and presented in a full text format when available. The developed methodology has been applied to human prostate cancer. URL address: http://www.ebm.lib.ulg.ac.be/prostate/index.htm. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

Disciplines :

Computer science

Author, co-author :

Delvenne, Catherine ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Interface Entreprises-Université

Pasleau, Françoise ; Université de Liège - ULiège > CARE "Le Réseau des bibliothèques" > Bibliothèque des Sciences de la vie

Language :

English

Title :

Organising access to evidence-based medicine resources on the web

Publication date :

May 2003

Journal title :

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

ISSN :

0169-2607

eISSN :

1872-7565

Publisher :

Elsevier, Limerick, Ireland

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Issue :

Pages :

1-10

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