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. 1999 Oct;87(4):404–407.

Librarians, clinicians, evidence-based medicine, and the division of labor.

E A Holtum 1
PMCID: PMC226615  PMID: 10550025

Abstract

Have librarians promoted end user searching to the detriment of the profession and promoted clinical inefficiency from causally trained health practitioners? Issues related to the complexity of bibliographic retrieval in the networked environment are explored within the context of evidence-based medicine and the division of labor.

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