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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Clinical search effectiveness: An assessment of the contribution of the computer-assisted information services of hospital libraries to clinical decision-making by physicians

Abstract

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The contribution of libraries to health care is among the most important issues in medical librarianship. This study examined the contribution of the computer-assisted information services of hospital libraries to clinical decision making. Four lines of research intersect in this study: research on information transfer among health professionals, research on clinical problem solving and decision making, evaluation of information retrieval system performance, and evaluation of health sciences library information services. Four notions of effectiveness that emerge from these lines of research were identified and the perspective of situational effectiveness was selected as most appropriate for this study.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Library and Information Science
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2011

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • King, David Neale
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Smith, Linda C.
  • Lancaster, F.W.
  • Allen, Bryce L.

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • Copyright 1994 King, David Neale
Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
AAI9503238
(UMI)AAI9503238
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/20999

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Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

King, David Neale. Clinical search effectiveness: An assessment of the contribution of the computer-assisted information services of hospital libraries to clinical decision-making by physicians. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/20999