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Embedded Clinical Librarianship: Bringing Medical Reference Services Bedside |
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| Authors: | Patti Gibbons Debra A Werner |
| Institution: | 1. Special Collections Research Center, Head of Collection Management at the University of Chicago Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA;2. Librarian for Science Instruction &3. Outreach and Biomedical Reference Librarian, University of Chicago Library and the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine’s Director of Library Research in Medical Education, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Abstract: | This article was written by Patti Gibbons and Debra A. Werner. Patti is the Head of Collection Management at the University of Chicago Library’s Special Collections Research Center and holds a MLIS from the University of Illinois and a MA from the University of Washington. Debra is the Librarian for Science Instruction & Outreach and Biomedical Reference Librarian at the University of Chicago Library and the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine’s Director of Library Research in Medical Education and she holds a MLIS from Dominican University. This article covers an experimental project at the University of Chicago where the library’s medical librarian teamed up with the hospital’s clinical team during patient rounds to provide real-time reference services. The project’s effectiveness was studied by a medical student who found that the embedded librarian’s services improved the clinical team’s evidence-based medical decision-making abilities without increasing the length of bedside rounds. |
| Keywords: | liaison outreach reference services |