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G/WEDS/COM1 WHERE’S THE EVIDENCE?
R. Duffin, E. Bayliss, M. Everard.Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, UK

Introduction: The busy health professional requires quick and easy access to high quality information. Increasingly clinicians are using online resources. But where to start when using the internet? The Child Health Specialist Library is a free, NHS-funded service providing access to evidence based information which will become a core resource supporting the National Care Record Service. It has over 3000 professionally indexed items including national guidelines, evidenced base resources and an increasing number of electronic journals.

Methods: The ease by which key information was accessed using the NLH was compared with a similar search using Google.

Results: A Google search for "Asthma" produced 1.2 million results with "sponsored links" being prominent. Refining the search using the "Health Professionals" option and only pages from the UK generated 1020. The BTS/SIGN guidelines were found on page 2 below BUPA, the BBC, . . . [Full text of this article]