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Table 6 Baseline frequency of access to EBM resources (% of all accesses), among `regular-searchers’ and `super-searchers’*

From: Increasing the quantity and quality of searching for current best evidence to answer clinical questions: protocol and intervention design of the MacPLUS FS Factorial Randomized Controlled Trials

  

Postgraduates

Faculty

Total

(n = 53)

(n = 28)

(n = 81)

  

739 searches

286 searches

1,025 searches

Summaries

485 (49.0%)

255 (63.8%)

740 (53.2%)

 

DynaMed

174 (17.6%)

39 (9.8%)

213 (15.3%)

 

UpToDate

120 (12.1%)

128 (32.0%)

248 (17.8%)

 

Best Practice

147 (14.8%)

71 (17.8%)

218 (15.7%)

 

ACP PIER

44 (4.4%)

17 (4.3%)

61 (4.4%)

Pre-appraised research

156 (15.8%)

68 (17.0%)

224 (16.1%)

 

Synopses of systematic reviews

23 (2.3%)

17 (4.3%)

40 (2.9%)

 

Systematic reviews

66 (6.7%)

21 (5.3%)

87 (6.3%)

 

Synopses of studies

10 (1.0%)

4 (1.0%)

14 (1.0%)

 

Studies

57 (5.8%)

26 (6.5%)

83 (6.0%)

Non-pre-appraised research

349 (35.3%)

77 (19.3%)

426 (30.6%)

 

Filtered studies

257 (26.0%)

60 (15.0%)

317 (22.8%)

 

Unfiltered studies

92 (9.3%)

17 (4.3%)

109 (7.8%)

Total number of accesses

990 (100%)

400 (100%)

1,390 (100%)

  1. *i.e., clinicians who conducted more than one search per month on average.