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- Title
Rave Reviews?
- Authors
Booth, Andrew
- Abstract
It is not uncommon for practitioners to bemoan the absence of good quality research upon which they can base their day-to-day decisions. While the stereotypical research message of systematic reviews is that more research is needed, thereby securing future researcher longevity, this can lead to a very unfair perception of the usefulness of such reviews. In a quest to unearth the evidence base for information practice, to feed into future courses, articles and columns, researchers have recently identified three review-type publications with varying degrees of systematicity, that could rightly claim a place among a busy health information practitioner's essentials. Of course all this assumes that researchers have access to a broadband Internet connection rather than the ubiquitous message in a bottle. Because of the wide-ranging coverage of these three reviews researchers will momentarily depart from their previous practice of starting with a problem-based scenario. Nevertheless they welcome follow-up correspondence from any health information professional who finds him or herself using these reviews to inform their specific library practice.
- Subjects
MEDICAL research; INFORMATION professionals; MEDICAL informatics; MEDICAL libraries; MEDICAL care; COMPUTERS in medicine
- Publication
Health Information & Libraries Journal, 2004, Vol 21, Issue 2, p134
- ISSN
1471-1834
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1471-1842.2004.00485.x