Impact of facilitating physician access to relevant medical literature on outcomes of hospitalised internal medicine patients: a randomised controlled trial.

Introduction: There is limited high-quality evidence regarding the usefulness of bibliographic assistance in improving clinically important outcomes in hospitalised patients. This study was designed to evaluate the impact of providing attending physicians with bibliographic information to assist them in answering medical questions that arise during daily clinical practice.

Methods: All patients admitted to the Internal Medicine ward of Hospital Aleman in Buenos Aires between March and August 2010 were randomly assigned to one of two groups: intervention or control.