The impact of clinical librarian services on patients and health care organisations

Autor:	Michelle Maden, Alison Brettle, Clare Payne
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Cost-Benefit Analysis media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention Health Informatics Library and Information Sciences 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life (healthcare) Health Information Management Nursing Librarians Surveys and Questionnaires Health care Humans Organizational Objectives Medicine Quality (business) 030212 general & internal medicine Risk management media_common Evidence-Based Medicine business.industry 05 social sciences Quality Improvement Library Services Systematic review Scale (social sciences) Patient Care 0509 other social sciences 050904 information & library sciences business Delivery of Health Care Critical Incident Technique
Zdroj:	Health Information & Libraries Journal. 33:100-120
ISSN:	1471-1834
DOI:	10.1111/hir.12136
Popis:	Background - Systematic reviews have found limited evidence of effectiveness and impact of clinical librarians (CLs) due to the poor quality of reporting, scale and design of previous studies. \ud Objectives - To measure specific CL impact on organisational and patient outcomes using a robust approach that helps CLs develop research skills.\ud Methods: Questionnaire and interviews, based on the Critical Incident Technique.\ud Results – CLs contribute to a wide range of outcomes in the short and longer term reflecting organisational priorities and objectives. Based on 340 critical incidents, these include direct contributions to choice of intervention (36%) diagnosis (26%) quality of life (25%), increased patient involvement in decision making (26%) and cost savings and risk management including avoiding tests, referrals, readmissions and reducing length of stay (28%).\ud Discussion – Interventions provided by CL’s are complex and each contributes to multiple outcomes of importance to health care organisations.\ud Conclusion - This study is unique in taking a wide view of potential and specific impacts to which CLs contribute across health care organisations. It is the largest UK evaluation of CL services to date and demonstrates CLs affect direct patient care, improve quality and save money. Future researchers are urged to use the tools presented to collect data on the same outcomes to build a significant and comprehensive international evidence base about the effectiveness and impact of clinical librarian services.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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