근거중심의학에 근거한 의학도서관 정보서비스: Evidence-Based Services 사례를 중심으로

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is emerging as a new paradigm for medical practice. Medical librarians are to understand the concept of EBM, and particularly, improve their skills to efficiently search and evaluate the clinical literature. It is described the definition and the evolution of EBM, and more specific, how to search and evaluate the literature, and finally the example of evidence-based services at the Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt Medical Center. The Eskind Biomedical Library provides high-level data and knowledge organization skills to optimize the clinical, research and educational initiatives. Collaborating with clinicians and researchers, highly trained information specialists embed best practices in the organizing, structuring the institution's knowledge. This article is aimed to seek ways to provide advanced library information services for clinicians and the other healthcare providers in conjunction with evidence-based medicine.