Librarians play an increasingly important role in healthcare institutions by searching relevant literature for clinicians. While clinicians can research themselves using online databases, many lack the skills, time or access to consistently find the best evidence. When librarians assisted with searches, they were able to solve 84% of clinicians' requests by accessing medical databases and selecting the most appropriate literature. While online information is abundant, clinicians require training on effective search strategies and using the best evidence in practice to provide successful patient treatment.

5. How to find the best evidence for patients’ t Clinicians need additional training on skills for using and searching of medical databases (presentations of new medical databases and workshops) New achievements in medicine demand new approaches in diagnostics and treatments. Only the best evidence on treatments, appropriate literature, along with good contact and dialogue with patient can give a successful treatment. treatment

6. Clinicians were in obligation to participate on congresses with paper or poster presentation They needed to retrieve new information

8. 91 clinicians’ requests to information specialist for searching databases Seventy six of them (84%), failed in in searching literature for various reasons They reported "no access to medical databases“ for different reasons

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15. By searching evidence based medicine (EBM) databases, information specialist solved 84% requests Problem with not finding articles was caused by unable to access to database and copyright of authors

18. Seventeen clinicians reported they had lack of time for literature search because of clinical practice One of the reasons is surely also lack of interest about new technologies The easiest way to retrieve literature is to consult librarian