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Byline: Tracey Caldwell

What's up, doc?

Doctors and other health professionals want mobile access to clinical information for one simple but overwhelming reason: so they can avoid making fatal mistakes on the wards. As a result, some medical librarians have already joined clinicians on their ward rounds, and most are now playing an active part in developing evidence-based medicine resources.

Ann Brice, specialist libraries development manager at the National Electronic Library for Health, says: "Evidence-based medicine (or evidence-based healthcare, as we prefer to call it) has a very high profile among UK health librarians. Librarians were ...

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