Medical Information Overload - How to Get Organized? - AOAMI
Medical Information Overload - How to Get Organized? - AOAMI
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.