Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that its clinical reference tool, DynaMed, has partnered with McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit to help physicians understand the scope of the medical research being published every day.
Through this partnership, physicians from around the world, combining the McMaster University and DynaMed communities, will rate the most important research articles for specific relevance at the point of care and identify the practice-changing articles across all disciplines.
Given the sheer volume of the new information being published, it is practically impossible for a practicing physician to read every article or to identify which articles contain research that needs to be put into practice. Having a mechanism to synthesise the new medical evidence into a useable format and rate the relevance is becoming more and more essential. The agreement between McMaster University and DynaMed provides physicians with the information they need to know - the best available evidence - when and where they need it most - at the point of care.
McMaster University and DynaMed add context to the medical literature allowing hospitals and healthcare providers to make decisions based on the best available evidence. The Health Information Research Unit at McMaster University has established a process to identify high-quality medical research and has recruited a global network of thousands of physicians spanning all disciplines that evaluates the clinical relevance and newsworthiness of high quality research articles.
DynaMed is a point-of-care clinical reference and decision support resource that identifies the best available evidence. It uses a team of physicians, health professionals from other disciplines and scientists trained in research methodology to critically analyse the content; summarizes research evidence for rapid application; and makes the information available for physicians to find in the moment-to-moment context of patient care.
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