References
- Marshall , J. G. 1995 . Using evaluation research methods to improve quality . Health Libraries Review , 12 : 159 – 172 .
- Cram , J. 1996 . Performance management, measurement and reporting in a time of information-centred change . Australian Library Journal , 45 : 225 – 238 .
- Lancaster , F. W. and Baker , S. L. 1991 . The measurement and evaluation of library services. , 2nd ed , Arlington , Va : Information Resources Press .
- King , D. N. 1989 . The service imperative: do library services improve the quality of patients care? . Bibliotheca Medica Canadiana , 10 : 121 – 125 .
- Hovenga , E. 1998 . “ Organisational performance evaluation ” . In Management in the Australian health care industry. , 2nd ed. , Edited by: Clinton , M. and Scheiwe , D. 103 – 170 . South Melbourne : Longman .
- Jackson , P. 1995 . “ Information management for clinical directors ” . In Clinical director's handbook 1995/96 , Edited by: Hirst , D. K. and Clements , R. V. 53 – 68 . Melbourne : Churchill Livingstone .
- Mead , J. 1998 . “ Clinical effectiveness: another perspective to evidence based healthcare ” . In Evidence-based healthcare: a practical guide for therapists , Edited by: Bury , T. and Mead , J. 26 Melbourne : Butterworth Heinemann .
- Garfield , E. 1985 . The impact of health information delivery on the quality of patient care: whither medical information science? . Health Libraries Review , 2 : 159 – 69 .
- Beckman , M. 1987 . The importance of measuring library effectiveness . Bibliotheca Medica Canadiana , 8 : 180 – 9 .
- Fisher , W. and Reel , L. 1992 . Total Quality Management (TQM) in a hospital library: identifying the service benchmarks . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 80 : 169 – 178 .
- Banwell , L. 2000 . “ Evaluating information services ” . In Managing knowledge in health services , Edited by: Booth , A. and Walton , G. 173 – 181 . London : Library Association .
- Hardy , M. C. , Yeoh , J. W. and Crawford , S. 1985 . Evaluating the impact of library services on the quality and cost of medical care . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 73 : 43 – 46 .
- King , D. N. 1987 . The contribution of hospital library services to patient care . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 75 : 291 – 301 .
- Marshall , J. G. 1992 . The impact of the hospital library on clinical decision making: the Rochester study . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 80 : 196 – 178 .
- Urquhart , C. J. and Hepworth , J. B. 1995 . The value to clinical decision making of information supplied by NHS library and information services: British Library Research and Development Report 6205 , London : British Library Research and Development Department .
- Davies , R. , Urquhart , C. J. , Smith , J. , Massiter , C. and Hepworth , J. B. 1996 . Establishing the value of information to nursing continuing education: report of the EVINCE project. British Library Research and Innovation Report 44, 1996 , London : British Library Research and Development Department .
- Casado Urigen , M. , Garcia Martin , M. A. , La Torre , P. M. and Montes del Olmo , I. Importance of hospital library facilities to clinical decision making by medical staff . Proceedings of the 4th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries EAHIL . Oslo : EAHIL .
- Scolaro , T. Assessing the impact of information provided by the library . Synergy in Sydney 1995: Proceedings of the sixth Asian Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians Conference . pp. 95 – 109 . Canberra : Australian Library and Information Association . Keyword Editorial Services, editors.
- Ali , I. 2000 . Library provided information and clinical decision making: a study of two hospitals in Canberra . Australian Academic & Research Libraries , 31 : 30 – 45 .
- Burton , J. E. 1995 . The impact of medical libraries and literature on patient care in New Zealand . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 83 : 425 – 430 .
- Blythe , J. and Royle , J. A. 1993 . Assessing nurses' information needs in the work environment . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 81 : 433 – 435 .
- Shelstad , K. R. and Clevenger , F. W. 1996 . Information retrieval patterns and needs among practising general surgeons: a statewide experience . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 84 : 490 – 497 .
- Cullen , R. 1997 . The medical specialist: information gateway or gatekeeper for the family physician . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 85 : 348 – 355 .
- Dee , C. and Blazek , R. 1993 . Information needs of the rural physician: a descriptive study . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 81 : 259 – 264 .
- Bowden , V. M. , Kromer , M. E. and Tobia , R. C. 1994 . Assessment of physicians' information needs in five Texas counties . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 82 : 189 – 196 .
- Cheng , G. Y.T. and Lam , L. M.C. 1996 . Information seeking behavior of health professionals in Hong Kong: a survey of thirty-seven hospitals . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 84 : 32 – 40 .
- Sprague , M. W. and De Muro , L. 1996 . Urban physicians: information access . Medical Reference Services Quarterly , 15 ( 3 ) : 23 – 40 .
- Dorsch , J. L. and Pifalo , V. 1997 . Information needs of rural health professionals: a retrospective use study . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 85 : 341 – 347 .
- Cullen , R. 2000 . The Internet as a source of information for clinical decision-making in family practice [WWW document]. URL <http://www.icml.org/tueday/user/cullen.htm> <http://www.icml.org/tueday/user/cullen.htm>
- Dorsch , J. L. and Landwirth , T. K. 1994 . Document needs in a rural Grateful Med outreach project . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 82 : 357 – 362 .
- Young , J. M. 1999 . General practitioners' use of evidence databases . Medical Journal of Australia , 170 : 56 – 58 .
- Cimpl , K. 1985 . Clinical medical librarianship: a review of the literature . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 73 : 21 – 28 .
- Veenstra , R. J. and Gluck , E. H. 1992 . A clinical librarian program in the intensive care unit . Critical Care Medicine , 20 : 1038 – 1042 .
- Haynes , R. B. , Johnston , M. E. , McKibbon , K. A. , Walker , C. J. and Willan , A. R. 1993 . A program to enhance clinical use of MEDLINE: a randomized controlled trial . Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials , May 11 Document No. 56
- Lindberg , D. A.R , Siegel , E. , Rapp , B. A. , Wallingford , K. T. and Wilson , S. R. 1993 . Use of Medline by physicians for clinical problem solving . Journal of the American Medical Association , 269 : 3124 – 3129 .
- Haynes , R. B. , Walker , C. J. , McKibbon , K. A. , Johnston , M. E. and Willan , A. R. 1994 . Performance of 27 Medline systems tested by searches with clinical questions . Journal of the American Medical Information Association , 1 : 285 – 295 .
- Haynes , R. B. , Wilczynski , N. , McKibbon , K. A. , Walker , C. J. and Sinclair , J. C. 1994 . Developing optimal search strategies for strategies for detecting clinically sound studies in Medline . Journal of the American Medical Information Association , 1 : 447 – 58 .
- Johnston , M. E. , Langton , K. B. , Haynes , R. B. and Mathieu , A. 1994 . Effects of computer-based clinical decision support systems on clinician performance and patient outcomes: a critical appraisal of research . Annals of Internal Medicine , 120 : 135 – 142 .
- Hersh , W. R. and Hickam , D. H. 1998 . How well do physicians use electronic information retrieval systems? . JAMA , 280 : 1347 – 1352 .
- Haynes , R. B. , McKibbon , K. A. , Walker , C. J. , Ryan , D. , Fitzgerald , N. and Ramsden , M. F. 1990 . Online access to MEDLINE in clinical settings: a study of use and usefulness . Annals of Internal Medicine , 112 : 78 – 84 .
- Tsafrir , J. and Grinberg , M. 1998 . Who needs evidence-based health care? . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 86 : 40 – 45 .
- Michaud , G. C. , McGowan , J. L. , van der Jagt , R. H. , Dugan , A. K. and Tugwell , P. 1996 . The introduction of evidence-based medicine as a component of daily practice . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 84 : 478 – 481 .
- Sackett , D. L. and Straus , S. E. 1998 . Finding and applying evidence during clinical rounds: the ‘evidence cart.’ . JAMA , 289 : 1336 – 1338 .
- Klein , M. S. , Ross , F. V. , Adams , D. L. and Gilbert , C. M. 1994 . Effect of online literature searching on length of stay and cost of patient care costs . Academic Medicine , 69 : 489 – 495 .
- Urquhart , C. J. and Hepworth , J. B. 1996 . Comparing and using assessments of the value of information to clinical decision-making . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 84 : 482 – 489 .
- Urquhart , C. J. and Hepworth , J. B. 1995 . The value of information services to clinicians: a toolkit for measurement , Aberystwyth : Department of Library and Information Studies University of Wales .
- Urquhart , C. J. , Massiter , C. , Thomas , R. , Sharp , S. and Smith , J. 1999 . Getting information to vocational trainees: report of the GIVTS project , London : British Library and Information Commission Research Report .
- Osiobe , S. A. 1985 . Use of information resources by health professionals: a review of the literature . Social Science and Medicine , 21 : 965 – 73 .
- McGowan , J. J. 1995 . The role of the health sciences librarians in the teaching and retention of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of lifelong learning . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 83 : 184 – 189 .
- Scherrer , C. S. and Dorsch , J L. 1999 . The evolving role of the librarian in evidence-based medicine . Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , 87 : 322 – 8 .
- Yeoman , A. , Urquhart , C. , Cooper , J. and Tyler , A. 2000 . The value and impact of virtual outreach services , London : British Library . Library and Information Commission Research Report No. 111, 2001
- Lancaster , F. W. Evaluating the digital library . Proceedings of the 2nd Northumbria international conference on performance measurement in libraries and information services 1997 . Edited by: Wressell , P. pp. 47 – 57 . Newcastle upon Tyne : Information North .