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Medical Information Overload - How to Get Organized? - AOAMI

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The Facts<br />

� Volume of medical literature is expanding<br />

at a rate of greater than 7% per year,<br />

doubling approximately every 10-15<br />

years 1<br />

� 20,000 journals and 17,000 new books<br />

published annually<br />

� Physicians are seeing more patient an<br />

hour now<br />

� Time for keeping up-<strong>to</strong>-date is short<br />

1. Price DS: The development and structure of the biomedical literature. In: Warren KS (Edi<strong>to</strong>r): Coping with the biomedical<br />

literature: A Primer for the Scientist and Clinicians. Praeger, 1981.

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