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Journal of Hospital Librarianship Volume 13, 2013 - Issue 2
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The Impact of Hospital Libraries on Patient Care and Clinical Decision-Making: A Survey of Teaching Hospitals

Salman Bin Naeem Library Department, The Children's Hospital and Institute of Child Health, Multan, PakistanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Shamshad Ahmed Department of Library and Information Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
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Muhammad Waqar Rabbani Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, The Children's Hospital and Institute of Child Health, Multan, Pakistan
Pages 120-130 | Received 28 Dec 2012, Accepted 11 Jan 2013, Published online: 22 Apr 2013
 
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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.

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

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