Wanke L A, Hewison N S
Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), Portland 97201.
Am J Hosp Pharm. 1988 Dec;45(12):2507-10.
The usefulness of MEDLINE searches conducted by a drug information pharmacist who had received online training was compared with the usefulness of searches conducted by medical librarians. Searches for literature pertinent to select drug information requests received at a university drug consultation service during a three-month period were conducted independently by the pharmacist and one of three reference librarians. The three librarians had received extensive online search training and were experienced in conducting MEDLINE searches; the pharmacist was trained by a fourth experienced librarian-searcher using National Library of Medicine (NLM) training materials. For each drug information request, the pharmacist and the librarian searched two MEDLINE files on the NLM service. The printouts generated by the two searchers were evaluated by two drug information pharmacists in terms of how useful each list of citations would be in enabling the drug information pharmacists to answer the related question. The majority of printouts in 48 sets of searches were judged to be useful. Of the 96 possible "best search" votes (two votes for each of the 48 sets of printouts), the pharmacist's searches received 34 votes, the librarians' searches received 28 votes, and there were 34 tie votes. The numbers of useful primary and alternate citations were found to be the best predictors of whether a given printout would receive the "best search" rating. MEDLINE searches performed by a drug information pharmacist with online training, in response to drug information requests, were judged by drug information pharmacists to be as useful as searches performed by librarians.
将接受过在线培训的药物信息药剂师进行的MEDLINE检索的有用性，与医学图书馆员进行的检索的有用性进行了比较。在三个月的时间里，药剂师和三位参考图书馆员之一独立对一所大学药物咨询服务处收到的与选定药物信息请求相关的文献进行检索。这三位图书馆员接受过广泛的在线检索培训，并且在进行MEDLINE检索方面经验丰富；药剂师由第四位经验丰富的图书馆检索员使用美国国立医学图书馆（NLM）的培训材料进行培训。对于每一项药物信息请求，药剂师和图书馆员在NLM服务上检索两个MEDLINE文件。两位药物信息药剂师根据每份引文列表在帮助药物信息药剂师回答相关问题方面的有用程度，对两位检索者生成的打印输出进行评估。在48组检索中，大多数打印输出被判定为有用。在96个可能的“最佳检索”投票中（48组打印输出每组两个投票），药剂师的检索获得34票，图书馆员的检索获得28票，还有34票平局。发现有用的主要和替代引文数量是给定打印输出是否会获得“最佳检索”评级的最佳预测指标。药物信息药剂师在接受在线培训后，针对药物信息请求进行的MEDLINE检索，被药物信息药剂师判定与图书馆员进行的检索一样有用。
