Open AccessDocumentary Practices of Hospital Librarians in Evidence-based Medicine: the Example of Health Technology Assessment in Swedish Healthcare
Author(s) -
Sara Ahlryd,
Fredrik Hanell
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
proceedings from the document academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2473-215X
DOI - 10.35492/docam/8/2/12
Subject(s) - negotiation , construct (python library) , health care , work (physics) , process (computing) , health technology , knowledge management , psychology , nursing , sociology , medicine , computer science , political science , engineering , social science , mechanical engineering , law , programming language , operating system
Today’s healthcare rely on a basis of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and in modern healthcare there are demands for rational decision-making about new methods, technology and treatments. HTA (Health Technology Assessment) supports decision-making in healthcare and in this study we turn to documentary practices of hospital librarians in HTA, as well as how documentary practices shape and are shaped by the work and roles of hospital librarians. Five central documentary practices were identified as initial searching, negotiating a search strategy, the main searching, making a selection, and documenting the search process. These practices construct the work and roles of hospital librarians through different documents, for example formal guidelines for systematic reviews and various tools used for searching, selecting and documenting the search process.