Quality in Primary Care Open Access

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Abstract

Web alert: current awareness updates

Richard BA Beard

In the constant quest to integrate the best possible information into everyday practice within healthcare, time is one of the greatest foes. Certainly critically appraising resources can be one of the most timeconsuming elements of the information-seeking process in supporting evidence-based practice, but simply ???½ nding the time to interrogate electronic resources can in itself be challenging. There are varying ways to combat this problem and one of these is to get regular updates from web resources where information pertinent to professional need is likely to appear. Many resources now o¡er this email update facility and the functionality of these systems ranges from a simple monthly bulletin to a user de???½ ned search report from multiple evidence-based resources. This article reports on a number of websitescurrently o¡ering such a facility across a range of information needs