Abstract

Medical profession is in a transition as it has never been since its foundation thousands of years ago. We are experiencing a world where paternalistic medicine is being given up by most practitioners as hundreds of articles are published daily on scientific journals and patients can acquire the most contemporary scientific information through internet instantaneously. Hence this concept renders a shift from Experience Based Medicine towards Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). EBM requires a team effort in which clinicians, medical informatics specialists and medical librarians need to work together thus providing patients - the most reliable and contemporary scientific evidence - with best informed choices for their diagnosis and treatment process. EBM is a team effort in which clinicians, medical informatics specialists and medical librarians should work together to provide the patients-using the best evidence from contemporary and reliable scientific evidence – with best informed choices in their diagnosis and treatment process. This study is intended to discuss Evidence Based Medicine and its relation with to the profession of medical librarianship.

Keywords: Evidence based medicine, Informatics, Medical librarianship, Medical informatics

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How to cite

Sincan, M. (2003). Evidence Based Medicine and Medical Librarianship. Information World, 4(1), 64-72. https://doi.org/10.15612/BD.2003.511