Embedded Clinical Librarianship: Bringing Medical Reference Services Bedside. Issue 2 (3rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gibbons, Patti; Werner, Debra A.
• Is Part Of: Public services quarterly. Volume 15:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 169
• Page End: 175
• Publication Date: 2019-04-03
• Subjects: liaison -- outreach -- reference services; Public services (Libraries) -- United States -- Periodicals; 025.5
• DOI: 10.1080/15228959.2019.1583153
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1522-8959

Abstract

Abstract : This article was written by Patti Gibbons and Debra A. Werner. Patti is the Head of Collection Management at the University of Chicago Library's Special Collections Research Center and holds a MLIS from the University of Illinois and a MA from the University of Washington. Debra is the Librarian for Science Instruction & Outreach and Biomedical Reference Librarian at the University of Chicago Library and the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine's Director of Library Research in Medical Education and she holds a MLIS from Dominican University. This article covers an experimental project at the University of Chicago where the library's medical librarian teamed up with the hospital's clinical team during patient rounds to provide real-time reference services. The project's effectiveness was studied by a medical student who found that the embedded librarian's services improved the clinical team's evidence-based medical decision-making abilities without increasing the length of bedside rounds.