The use of bibliographic information resources and Web 2.0 by neuropaediatricians

作者：Gonzalez de Dios Javier; Camino Leon Rafael; Ramos Lizana Julio

来源：Revista de Neurologia, 2011, 52(12): 713-719.

• Information services
• Internet
• Journal articles
• Neuropediatrics
• PubMed
• Web 2.0

Aim. To determine the state of knowledge and use of the main sources of bibliographic information and Web 2.0 resources in a sample of pediatricians linked professionally to child neurology.
Subjects and methods. Anonymous opinion survey to 44 pediatricians (36 neuropediatric staffs and 8 residents) with two sections: sources of bibliographic information: (25 questions) and Web 2.0 resources (14 questions).
Results. The most consulted journals are Revista de Neurologic] and Anales de Pediatric]. All use PubMed database and less frequently Indice Medico Espanol (40%) and Embase (27%); less than 20% use of other international and national databases. 81% of respondents used the Cochrane Library, and less frequently other sources of evidence-based medicine: Tripdatabase (39%), National Guideline Clearinghouse (37%), Excelencia Clinica (12%) and Sumsearch (3%). 45% regularly receive some e-TOC (electronic table of contents) of biomedical journals, but only 7% reported having used the RSS (really system syndication). The places to start searching for information are PubMed (55%) and Google (23%). The four resources most used of Web 2.0 are YouTube (73%), Facebook (43%), Picasa (27%) and blogs (25%). We don't found differences in response between the group of minus or equal to 34 and major or equal to 35 years.
Conclusions. Knowledge of the patterns of use of information databases and Web 2.0 resources can identify the limitations and opportunities for improvement in the field of pediatric neurology training and information.

• 出版日期2011-6-16