Pubmed’s new evidence based searching utility

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On pop up windows during drug order entry displaying the latest evidence-based medicine articles from pubmed.

Statement of the problem: there is a lack clinician’s access to contextual information at the point of drug order entry in most CPOEs.

Background information: In the mid-1990s, PubMed introduced it’s search engine. This search engine is a web-based information portal for all types of medically-related journals, which now includes a category for evidence based medicine (EBM). PubMed later introduced limits and automatic web service interfacing to view returns via a web page from a program written in java. Thus, it is possible to build a program that would return the latest evidence based medicine articles limited to those published in the last year to the clinician automatically during drug-order entry on Windows and Unix based CPOE clients. This may be useful in cases where a clinician has incomplete knowledge of a drug’s important recent studies and access to the articles is only provided through a button on the CPOE entry screen.

A description of any alternatives: Alternatives are limiting drug decision support to guidelines.

Major conclusions: With Pubmed’s new evidence based searching utility, one may ask, is it worthwhile to put up a link to PubMed articles for the most recent year during drug order entry? This would be a teaching aid as well, given that only the most recent EBM article would be returned. This would be useful in case of perhaps, when the entering clinical is a pharmacist.--Crawford 18:59, 5 November 2007 (CST)