作者
Alvin Marcelo, Alex Gavino, Iris Thiele Isip-Tan, Leilanie Apostol-Nicodemus, Faith Joan Mesa-Gaerlan, Paul Nimrod Firaza, John Francis Faustorilla, Fiona M Callaghan, Paul Fontelo
发表日期
2013/4/1
期刊
BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
卷号
18
期号
2
页码范围
48-53
出版商
Royal Society of Medicine
简介
Background
Many clinicians depend solely on journal abstracts to guide clinical decisions.
Objectives
This study aims to determine if there are differences in the accuracy of responses to simulated cases between resident physicians provided with an abstract only and those with full-text articles. It also attempts to describe their information-seeking behaviour.
Methods
Seventy-seven resident physicians from four specialty departments of a tertiary care hospital completed a paper-based questionnaire with clinical simulation cases, then randomly assigned to two intervention groups—access to abstracts-only and access to both abstracts and full-text. While having access to medical literature, they completed an online version of the same questionnaire.
Findings
The average improvement across departments was not significantly different between the abstracts-only group and the full-text group (p=0.44), but when …
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