Josephine L Dorsch, John G Faughnan, Betsy L Humphreys
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Donald A.B. Lindberg M.D. arrived as Director, U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) in late 1984 with the intention of implementing a physician-friendly interface to MEDLINE, a prime example of his interest in making NLM information services more directly useful in medical care. By early 1986, NLM's Grateful Med, an inexpensive PC search interface to MEDLINE useful for health professionals, had joined the group of end-user systems for searching MEDLINE that emerged in the 1980s. This chapter recounts Grateful Med's rapid iterative development and the subsequent campaign to bring it to attention of health professionals. It emphasizes Lindberg's role, the challenges faced by those introducing and using the interface in a pre-Internet world, and some longer-term effects of the effort to expand health professionals' use of MEDLINE during the decade from 1986 to 1996.
Donald A.B. Lindberg医学博士于1984年底担任美国国家医学图书馆(NLM)主任，意图实现MEDLINE的医生友好界面，这是他对使NLM信息服务更直接地在医疗保健中有用感兴趣的一个主要例子。到1986年初，NLM的Grateful Med，一个对医疗专业人员有用的廉价PC搜索界面，加入了搜索MEDLINE的终端用户系统组，该组出现在20世纪80年代。本章叙述了感恩医疗的快速迭代发展，以及随后引起卫生专业人员注意的活动。它强调了Lindberg的作用，在前互联网世界中引入和使用MEDLINE界面所面临的挑战，以及从1986年到1996年的十年中扩大医疗专业人员使用MEDLINE的努力的一些长期影响。
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Information Services & Use is an information and information technology oriented publication with a wide scope of subject matters. International in terms of both audience and authorship, the journal aims at leaders in information management and applications in an attempt to keep them fully informed of fast-moving developments in fields such as: online systems, offline systems, electronic publishing, library automation, education and training, word processing and telecommunications. These areas are treated not only in general, but also in specific contexts; applications to business and scientific fields are sought so that a balanced view is offered to the reader.
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