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Clinical Librarian Attendance at General Surgery Quality of Care Rounds (Morbidity and Mortality Conference)

Department of Surgery, University of Toronto

Marina Englesakis, BA(Hons), MLIS

Departments of Library & Information Services, University Health Network

Amy Faulkner, BA(Hons), MISt

Departments of Library & Information Services, University Health Network

Boguslawa Trojan, MA, MLS

Departments of Library & Information Services, University Health Network

Lorne E. Rotstein, MD, FRCSC, FACS

Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Department of Surgery, University Health Network

David R. Urbach, MSc, MD, FRCSC

Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Department of Surgery, University Health Network, Division of Decision Making and Health Care, Toronto General Clinical Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, david.urbach{at}uhn.on.ca

Quality of Care rounds, also known as Mortality and Morbidity conferences, are an important and time-honored forum for quality audit in clinical surgery services. The authors created a modification to their hospital’s Quality of Care rounds by incorporating a clinical librarian, who assisted residents in conducting literature reviews related to clinical topics discussed during the rounds. The objective of this article is to describe the authors’ experience with this intervention. The clinical librarian program has greatly improved the Quality of Care rounds by aiding in literature searches and quality of up-to-date, evidence-based presentations.

Key Words: clinical librarian • quality of care rounds • evidence-based medicine

This version was published on September 1, 2009

Surgical Innovation, Vol. 16, No. 3, 266-269 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1553350609345487


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