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The Utilization Of An Emergency Medicine Specific Library Website In The Clinical Setting, Doron Korinow, Susanne Griffin, Nancy E. Harger, Jeffrey Cukor

Nancy E. Harger

Introduction: The need for efficient access to academic resources in the Emergency Department is crucial to the Emergency physician. Many academic medical libraries have a large volume of information that makes it difficult to find answers in a time-sensitive clinical setting. We designed an Emergency Medicine library guide, tested its efficiency and surveyed users about their preference of an EM library website compared to the general library website.Methods: We created an EM library guide using the Libguide software by Springshare. We then created two tests of similar clinical questions simulating cases in the Emergency Department where researching an answer would …