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A Mixed-Methods Analysis Of A Library-Based Hand-Held Intervention With Rural Clinicians, Richard L. Wallace, Nakia J. Woodward, Travis Clamon
A Mixed-Methods Analysis Of A Library-Based Hand-Held Intervention With Rural Clinicians, Richard L. Wallace, Nakia J. Woodward, Travis Clamon
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Background: The East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine Library has participated for several years in projects to provide rural clinicians with health information resources.
Objectives: To determine whether a strategy of hand‐held devices with a best‐evidence point‐of‐care disease tool and a drug database paired with access to a medical library for full‐text articles and training to use the tools would be an affordable way to meet the information needs of rural underserved clinicians.
Methods: This study is a mixed‐methods methodology. The first project was evaluated using a randomised controlled trial (RCT) methodology. The second was evaluated qualitatively using …