Working Environments of Hospital Librarians Supportive of Evidence-Based Health Care

ABSTRACT

Hospital librarians report that they are supporting evidence-based healthcare in their hospitals and contributions of medical librarians to the EBHC process are recognized in the literature. This article describes the work environment of hospital librarians who participated in a survey on hospital librarians promotion, understanding, and exposure to EBHC.

KEYWORDS:

• Hospital librarians
• evidence-based health care
• questionnaires
• work environment

The author would like to acknowledge the generous assistance and support of Annie Armstrong, John Cullars, Sandy De Groote, Ruth Holst, Mary Fran Prottsman, Carol Scherrer, and Ann Weller. Thanks to Lisa Wallis of Northeastern University for her assistance with statistical analysis.

A preliminary version of this article was presented at MLA ′07, the annual meeting of the Medical Library Association, Philadelphia, PA, May 22, 2007.