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The McMaster Health Information Research Unit: Over a Quarter-Century of Health Informatics Supporting Evidence-Based Medicine

Abstract

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) emerged from McMaster University in the 1980-1990s, which emphasizes the integration of the best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values. The Health Information Research Unit (HiRU) was created at McMaster University in 1985 to support EBM. Early on, digital health informatics took the form of teaching clinicians how to search MEDLINE with modems and phone lines. Searching and retrieval of …

Authors

Lokker C; McKibbon KA; Afzal M; Navarro T; Linkins L-A; Haynes RB; Iorio A

Journal

Journal of Medical Internet Research, Vol. 26, ,

Publisher

JMIR Publications

DOI

10.2196/58764

ISSN

1438-8871