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@MISC{_engagingmedicallibrarians,
author = {},
title = {EngagingMedical Librarians to Improve the Quality of Review Articles},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Review articles published in JAMA summarize various aspectsofmedicalpracticeandarewrittenbyknownau-thorities.Anexpert’sopinionabouta topichasvalue,but often more can be learned by that expert’s assessment ofall thepertinent literature.Whenreading individual re-search articles, readers couldmiss subtle features of the studies that are more apparent to an expert clinician-researcher. Readers benefit from the expert’s explana-tion of the validity and applicability of individual studies. When authors summarize the literature, a natural tendency is to select articles supporting their views. To minimize this potential for bias, JAMA editors ask au-thors to systematically review the literature and com-ment on as much of it as is practical. Extensive litera-ture searches can be difficult to perform, given the
Keyphrases
review article engagingmedical librarian expert assessment ofall thepertinent literature individual re-search article expert clinician-researcher expert explana-tion extensive litera-ture search natural tendency jama editor subtle feature anexpert sopinionabouta topichasvalue individual study
