The Impact of Hospital Libraries on Patient Care and Clinical Decision-Making: A Survey of Teaching Hospitals

Abstract

This article reports the results of a survey of 150 doctors working in teaching hospitals in Multan, Pakistan. The survey was undertaken to ascertain how often doctors use hospital libraries, their main reasons for using the hospital libraries, and the impact of information they received/gathered from the hospital libraries on patient care and clinical decision-making.

Keywords:

• clinical decision-making
• clinical information
• hospital libraries
• patient care

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© Salman Bin Naeem, Shamshad Ahmed, and Muhammad Waqar Rabbani