"Clinical librarian programs may lead to information behaviour change."

Study on the benefits of a clinical librarian service in North Wales.

The full text of this paper is available, together with an evidence summary. The objective of the paper was to assess whether the North Wales Clinical Librarian service changed the information behaviour of team clinicians. Researchers worked with doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and clinical librarians based in North Wales to identify:

which services were used
effects of training on search behaviour
the benefits for clinical governance
whether confidence levels increased

Although not conclusive, the study did find that working with a clinical librarian did improve searching behaviour of clinicians.

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Source: National Library for Health Document of the Week