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| InfoPOEM
Charlottesville VA. |
POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters™;
medical reference software
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clinical domains |
InfoPOEMs, POEMs, InfoRetriever, DailyPOEMs, Evidence Based Medicine, Information Mastery, Cochrane Database, portable database, Medline, clinical database, medical reference, clinical decision support, clinical evidence, WWW, Pocket PC, Palm OS
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 USA.
POEMS are also published in the UK, Canada, Lithuania,
New Zealand, Brazil, South African.
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POEMs, Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters™, are validated abstracts and
commentaries on original medical research studies.
"POEMs have to meet three criteria:
- "They address a question that we face as clinicians."
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- "They measure outcomes that we and our patients care about: symptoms, morbidity, quality of life, and mortality."
- "They have the potential to change the way we practice."
POEMs are compiled from continuous review, grading, and critical appraisal of over 1,200 studies published monthly in
over 100 journals. About 1 in 40 studies qualifies as a POEM, and 35-40 POEM synopses are created per month.
The validity and relevance criteria applied in the development of POEMs
originate from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford).
InfoRetriever is a medical reference tool incorporating a search engine. It is designed to
retrieve the best available evidence to answer questions from clinicians. It can be used over a variety of platforms:
WWW, desktop or handheld computer.
InfoPOEMs, a database of POEMs, keeps clinicians aware of the most important emerging evidence
and supports rapid access to the best available evidence via InfoRetriever™.
DailyPOEMs© disseminates synopses of new research results via via daily e-mail alerts.
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| references |
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Grandage KK, Slawson DC, Shaughnessy AF.
When less is more: a practical approach to searching for evidence-based answers.
J Med Libr Assoc. 2002 Jul;90(3):298-304.
[PubMed]
[PubMedCentral]
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"... Clinicians seek information to stay current with new relevant medical developments and to find answers to patient-specific questions. The volume of available information makes clinicians' tasks of rapidly identifying high-quality studies daunting. New tools evaluate the rigor and relevance of information and summarize it in the form of synthesized clinical answers. These sources have the opposite focus of many other information tools in that they strive to provide less information rather than more. With the development of these sources of validated and refined information, a new search approach is needed to locate clinical information in which speed is the benchmark. The existing medical literature, including these new refinement tools, can be conceptualized as a pyramid, with the most useful information, based on validity and relevance, placed at the apex. Use of this hierarchy allows searchers to drill down through progressive layers until they find their answers. Librarians can play a significant role in evaluating the ever-increasing variety of these synthesized resources, placing them into the searching hierarchy, and training clinicians to search from the top down.
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Ebell MH, Slawson D, Shaughnessy A, Barry H.
Update on InfoRetriever software.
J Med Libr Assoc. 2002 Jul;90(3):343.
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[No abstract
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Ebell MH, Barry HC.
InfoRetriever: rapid access to evidence-based information on a hand-held computer.
MD Comput. 1998 Sep-Oct;15(5):289, 292-7.
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[No abstract
available]
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1990s |
| contact |
InfoPOEM, Inc.
141 Ednam Dr.
Charlottesville
VA 22903
USA
Tel 877-MED-POEM (US)
434-971-1816 (Non-US)
E: info@infopoems.com
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| acknowledgements |
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| page history |
Entry on OpenClinical: 2002
Design template v0.3: 16 April 2005.
Last main update: 26 June 2005. |
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