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Background: The Saskatchewan Site Representatives submitted a proposal to the Health Quality Council (HQC) focusing on "promoting the awareness, appreciation, distribution and use of Cochrane systematic reviews?" by providing access, with accompanying training, to healthcare practitioners and health consumers in the province of Saskatchewan. This is a pilot project that not only provides access to the information but incorporates training both on-site and using teleconferencing technologies to citizens, healthcare practitioners and librarians within the province.
Objectives: There are three primary objectives: A. Provide province-wide access to The Cochrane Library for health regions, libraries, and citizens; B. Provide instruction to healthcare practitioners, librarians, and citizens on the use and value of The Cochrane Library; and, C. Track use of The Cochrane Library including how and when health care practitioners, librarians, and consumers use the resource.
Methods: A different set of methods is associated with each of the objectives. The oral presentation will focus on the promotion and education strategies we used to meet our objectives. These included such promotional strategies as press releases and a Cochrane Library information booth at professional meetings. Educational strategies included hands-on training sessions, incorporating teleconferencing and WebEx, and creating user-specific training materials.
Results: - Developed a province-wide license with Wiley InterScience that provides access to The Cochrane Library at the citizen level. - Established mechanisms that provide electronic access to all citizens in Saskatchewan. - Identified strategies that worked and did not work to promote use of The Cochrane Library by both healthcare practitioners and citizens. - Instruction program developed to train the citizens of Saskatchewan.
Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank everyone who has volunteered their time and organizational resources to make this project successful. In particular the authors would like to thank the participants in the Multitype Database Licensing Program, the Saskatchewan Health Resource Centre, the health librarians in the province, and the Health Quality Council who provided the funding.
Objectives: There are three primary objectives: A. Provide province-wide access to The Cochrane Library for health regions, libraries, and citizens; B. Provide instruction to healthcare practitioners, librarians, and citizens on the use and value of The Cochrane Library; and, C. Track use of The Cochrane Library including how and when health care practitioners, librarians, and consumers use the resource.
Methods: A different set of methods is associated with each of the objectives. The oral presentation will focus on the promotion and education strategies we used to meet our objectives. These included such promotional strategies as press releases and a Cochrane Library information booth at professional meetings. Educational strategies included hands-on training sessions, incorporating teleconferencing and WebEx, and creating user-specific training materials.
Results: - Developed a province-wide license with Wiley InterScience that provides access to The Cochrane Library at the citizen level. - Established mechanisms that provide electronic access to all citizens in Saskatchewan. - Identified strategies that worked and did not work to promote use of The Cochrane Library by both healthcare practitioners and citizens. - Instruction program developed to train the citizens of Saskatchewan.
Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank everyone who has volunteered their time and organizational resources to make this project successful. In particular the authors would like to thank the participants in the Multitype Database Licensing Program, the Saskatchewan Health Resource Centre, the health librarians in the province, and the Health Quality Council who provided the funding.