Health Libraries Australia

Ruth Sladek from SA reporting on her NICS funded research

17th July 3-5:00pm

Thursday 17th July 2003 3-5:00pm at the University of Western Australia's Medical and Dental Library, in the Seminar Room, first floor. $7 charge to cover some light refreshments at the end of the day. Ruth is giving her time and expertise for free.

RSVP please to: Cheryl Hamill (please remove '.nospam' from address), ph 08 9431 2563, fax 08 9431 2522

Please also indicate if you would like to stay on after 5:00pm and head out for a drink and then a meal with Ruth - venue yet to be decided but somewhere in the vicinity - a networking opportunity.

Ruth Sladek from South Australia will be in Perth for the Safety and Quality in Action Conference in July and has kindly agreed to stay an extra day and present a report on her research funded by the National Institute of Clinical Studies. Her study is titled: Increasing Access to Evidence in an Acute Hospital Setting through a Clinical Evidence Researcher Service. To steal from a posting to another list:

"More on the study - Clinical Medical Librarianship (CML) services involve placing medical librarians at the point of decision making within acute care institutions, for example, attending ward rounds and clinical care meetings. Their services vary, from simply searching and providing bibliographies, through to selecting and providing relevant full text articles, training, and preparing 'digests' of distilled information. The CER study investigated the value of an "informationist" in the Daw Park Repatriation General Hospital, SA. This is the first evaluation of such a program in Australia."

Program

Overview of CML 10 min

Outline of the NICS study: Background, Phase I and Phase II results 30min

Questions asked and case study of a clinical question and the approach used to answer it 30min

Potential issues for librarians (interactive) 15 mins

Questions 15 mins
Refreshments 30min

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