Summary

The UCHLS selectors group charged a task force in 2007 to evaluate selected Point-of-Care (POC) online resources, and make a recommendation on any resources that should be considered for consortial license.

The task force members were:

Bruce Abbott, UCD
Judy Bube, UCI (co-chair)
Craig Haynes, UCSD
Rikke Ogawa, UCLA
Josephine Tan, UCSF
Jeff Williams, UCSD (co-chair)

Methodology

The task force adopted the methodology developed by a team of librarians associated with the Texas Health Science Libraries Consortium, and presented at the 2006 meeting of the South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association (SCC/MLA). A PowerPoint report, and supporting documentation from this group is available at http://ils.mdacc.tmc.edu/papers.html

Recommendations

Based on the evaluations the task force consulted, as well as the earlier work done by the Texas Health Science Libraries Consortium, we believe the following five resources are of sufficient quality, and wide enough applicability to recommend the UCHLS consider the following for consortial purchase, or continue support for existing license:

ACP Pier (currently licensed as part of StatRef)
Clinical Evidence
ClinicalResource@Ovid
DynaMed
FirstConsult

Notes on UpToDate and Zynx Evidence

Point-of-Care Resources Evaluated With Listing of UC Campuses that Currently License:

ACP PIER (UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSD, UCSF)
Clinical Evidence (UCI)
Clinical Knowledge Summaries
Clinical Resource@Ovid
DISEASEDEX General Medicine (UCR, UCSC)
DynaMed (UCI (pending), UCLA)
DXplain
eMedicine (UCD, UCI, UCR)
Evidence Matters
FirstConsult
Harrison's Practice: Answers on Demand
InfoPOEMS/InfoRetriever (UCD, UCI, UCLA)
Isabel
UpToDate (UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCSD, UCSF)
Zynx Evidence (UCLA)

Task Force Raw Resource Rankings:

Zynx Evidence (78.5)
ClinicalResource@Ovid (71.5)
ACP PIER (70.5)
FirstConsult (68)
DynaMed (67.5)
Clinical Evidence (67)
Clinical Knowledge Summaries (57.5)
UpToDate (55.5)
InfoPOEMS/InfoRetriever (53)
DISEASEDEX General Medicine (52)
Evidence Matters (45.5)
eMedicine (43.5)
Harrison's Practice: Answers on Demand (41)
Isabel (37.5)
DXplain (33)


LINKS

UCHLS website