Leclercq E, Kremer L C M
Emma Kinderziekenhuis AMC, Cochrane Childhood Cancer Group, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam.
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2008 Jan 26;152(4):221-4.
For clinicians, researchers and policy makers in healthcare, it is important to keep up to date with the newest medical-scientific information. The large amount of new information makes this a difficult task. There are various techniques for keeping up to date, for instance reading systematic reviews, searching the literature at regular intervals oneself, and using the e-mail alerting services of, for example, PubMed. A new possibility is to be alerted to new scientific publications, for example, via a 'really simple syndication' (RSS)-feed. This option is now also made available by PubMed. In addition to PubMed, many other websites can now be searched systematically for new information by a RSS reader. With RSS feeds the user can be alerted to new information much faster than by an e-mail alerting service, so that one can anticipate new developments more rapidly.
对于医疗保健领域的临床医生、研究人员和政策制定者而言，及时了解最新的医学科学信息非常重要。大量的新信息使得这项任务颇具难度。有多种跟进最新信息的方法，例如阅读系统评价、定期自行检索文献以及使用诸如PubMed的电子邮件提醒服务。一种新的可能性是通过“简易信息聚合”（RSS）源接收新科学出版物的提醒。现在PubMed也提供了此选项。除PubMed外，现在许多其他网站也可以通过RSS阅读器系统地搜索新信息。通过RSS源，用户能比通过电子邮件提醒服务更快地收到新信息提醒，从而能够更快地预见到新进展。
