BACKGROUND The "Just-in-time Information" (JIT) librarian consultation service was designed to provide rapid information to answer primary care clinical questions during patient hours. This study evaluated whether information provided by librarians to answer clinical questions positively impacted time, decision-making, cost savings and satisfaction. METHODS AND FINDING A randomized controlled...

D11.1-Guidelines for open scaleable applications in telemedicine-2-EXECUTIVE SUMMARY SAMTA (Open Scaleable Architecture for Multimedia Telemedicine Application) is an European Union funded research project focused on the medical field of cardiology in Central and Eastern European countries. However, the project results presented in this document in the form of guidelines and recommendations are...

Libraries appear to be in a period of great change and the major reason for this has been the increasing availability of machine-readable data bases and the information retrieval systems based on these. A number of data bases producers have established networks on national and international level in order to make services from these data bases widely available. The fact that few individual inst...

The Project Automated Librarian (PAL) is a tool that has been created to manage the logistical problems inherent in a medium-sized software development project. The main goals of PAL are to eliminate the problems of simultaneous updates to software modules, while allowing programmers access to the latest possible versions of the software. PAL also seeks to prevent the software from getting into...

This study demonstrated a method to train medical students at Hanoi Medical School in airway management from Omaha, Nebraska, using tele-mentoring techniques. Correct placement of the endotracheal tube was documented by tele-broncoscopy following intubation. This technology may increase medical training capabilities in remote or developing areas of the world. Medical care delivery could be perf...