Increasing the quantity and quality of searching for current best evidence to answer clinical questions: protocol and intervention design of the MacPLUS FS Factorial Randomized Controlled Trials

Agoritsas, Thomas; Iserman, Emma; Hobson, Nicholas; Cohen, Natasha; Cohen, Adam; Roshanov, Pavel S; Perez, Miguel; Cotoi, Chris; Parrish, Rick; Pullenayegum, Eleanor; Wilczynski, Nancy L; Iorio, Alfonso; Haynes, R Brian

doi:10.1186/s13012-014-0125-9

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Increasing the quantity and quality of searching for current best evidence to answer clinical questions: protocol and intervention design of the MacPLUS FS Factorial Randomized Controlled Trials

ContributorsAgoritsas, Thomas

; Iserman, Emma; Hobson, Nicholas; Cohen, Natasha; Cohen, Adam; Roshanov, Pavel S; Perez, Miguel; Cotoi, Chris; Parrish, Rick; Pullenayegum, Eleanor; Wilczynski, Nancy L; Iorio, Alfonso; Haynes, R Brian

Published inImplementation science, vol. 9, 125

Publication date2014

Abstract

Finding current best evidence for clinical decisions remains challenging. With 3,000 new studies published every day, no single evidence-based resource provides all answers or is sufficiently updated. McMaster Premium LiteratUre Service--Federated Search (MacPLUS FS) addresses this issue by looking in multiple high quality resources simultaneously and displaying results in a one-page pyramid with the most clinically useful at the top. Yet, additional logistical and educational barriers need to be addressed to enhance point-of-care evidence retrieval. This trial seeks to test three innovative interventions, among clinicians registered to MacPLUS FS, to increase the quantity and quality of searching for current best evidence to answer clinical questions.

Keywords

Clinical Competence/standards
Diffusion of Innovation
Education, Medical, Graduate/methods
Evidence-Based Medicine/education
Feedback
Humans
Information Storage and Retrieval/standards/statistics & numerical data
Internet
Ontario
Personal Satisfaction
Point-of-Care Systems
Teaching/methods

Affiliation entities

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de réadaptation et gériatrie

Research groups

Epidémiologie clinique (115)

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AGORITSAS, Thomas et al. Increasing the quantity and quality of searching for current best evidence to answer clinical questions: protocol and intervention design of the MacPLUS FS Factorial Randomized Controlled Trials. In: Implementation science, 2014, vol. 9, p. 125. doi: 10.1186/s13012-014-0125-9

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PID : unige:89541
DOI : 10.1186/s13012-014-0125-9
PMID : 25239537

Journal ISSN1748-5908

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