Dorsch Josephine L, Faughnan John G, Humphreys Betsy L
Professor Emerita, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA.
Veterans Health Administration, USA.
Inf Serv Use. 2022 Jun 10;42(2):151-160. doi: 10.3233/ISU-220147. eCollection 2022.
Donald A.B. Lindberg M.D. arrived as Director, U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) in late 1984 with the intention of implementing a physician-friendly interface to MEDLINE, a prime example of his interest in making NLM information services more directly useful in medical care. By early 1986, NLM's Grateful Med, an inexpensive PC search interface to MEDLINE useful for health professionals, had joined the group of end-user systems for searching MEDLINE that emerged in the 1980s. This chapter recounts Grateful Med's rapid iterative development and the subsequent campaign to bring it to attention of health professionals. It emphasizes Lindberg's role, the challenges faced by those introducing and using the interface in a pre-Internet world, and some longer-term effects of the effort to expand health professionals' use of MEDLINE during the decade from 1986 to 1996.
唐纳德·A·B·林德伯格医学博士于1984年末出任美国国立医学图书馆（NLM）馆长，他打算为医学在线数据库（MEDLINE）打造一个方便医生使用的界面，这充分体现了他希望国立医学图书馆的信息服务能在医疗保健中发挥更直接作用的兴趣。到1986年初，国立医学图书馆的“感恩医学”（Grateful Med）——一款面向健康专业人士的、用于检索MEDLINE的廉价个人电脑搜索界面——已加入了20世纪80年代出现的用于检索MEDLINE的终端用户系统行列。本章讲述了“感恩医学”的快速迭代发展过程以及随后为引起健康专业人士关注而开展的活动。它强调了林德伯格的作用、在互联网出现之前引入和使用该界面的人所面临的挑战，以及1986年至1996年这十年间为扩大健康专业人士对MEDLINE的使用所做努力产生的一些长期影响。
