Advances in website information resources to aid in clinical practice
Plain-language summary
This review surveys internet-based information resources that practicing oncologists can use in everyday clinical work, spanning general medicine, oncology-specific tools, and social media. The authors note that the volume of new cancer literature is overwhelming, with a new cancer-related article added to the MEDLINE database roughly every three minutes, and argue that well-chosen online resources can help clinicians organize that flood of information into usable knowledge. It matters because it points busy oncologists toward reliable 'just-in-time' resources to support better patient care.
Read the full paper (DOI: 10.14694/EdBook_AM.2015.35.e608).
This is a plain-language summary written for discoverability; the authoritative version is the published paper. Part of Travis Osterman's peer-reviewed publications.