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Systematic reviews of patient preferences: The librarian's role

Monday, November 4, 2013

Thomas Mead, MLS (Library Science) , Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
A medical Reference Librarian can be of enormous help in a Systematic Review project, which is research where literature is carefully gathered and analyzed. I will describe my role at the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science. I will discuss my responsibilities, procedures, scheduling, constraints, etc. I will also describe some advanced techniques in literature searching, downloading references, reference-and-PDF management, documentation of procedures, and my part of the "Methods" section of the subsequent paper. I support several such projects being authored by the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science. Researchers there are engaged in projects determining and measuring Patient Preferences.

Learning Areas:
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
Describe the medical reference librarian's role in supporting systematic reviews.

Keywords: Patient Perspective, Research

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have assisted with many Systematic Review projects in my work as a librarian in the Biomedical Libraries, at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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