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Introduction
K. Ann McKibbon was born in Lowbanks, Ontario and is known to health librarians around the world for her expertise in information retrieval, search strategies and filters (ie. hedges). She has been a health librarian for more than thirty years, with over twenty years of research experience in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University. She is currently a member of McMaster's Health Information Research Unit.
In 1971, McKibbon obtained a bachelor of science (B.Sc.) degree (honours chemistry) from the University of Guelph and a Master of library science (MLS) degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1972. In 2005, McKibbon completed her PhD in Medical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh; her dissertation was entitled "Effect of Risk Attitude and Uncertainty Comfort on Primary Care Physicians' Use of Electronic Information Resources".
McKibbon holds a faculty position in the School of Medicine at McMaster University. She has authored numerous articles and monographs, including the PDQ Evidence-Based Principles and Practice (B.C. Decker, Hamilton, 1999), over 50 peer reviewed articles and taught 200+ workshops in information retrieval, evidence based medicine and knowledge translation. McKibbon's current research interests are in medical/health informatics, translational medicine and information retrieval. She is interested in how health professionals use electronic information resources, the results they get and how identified information is used in practice. Most recently, she was involved in setting up a new Masters program in eHealth.
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References
- K. Ann McKibbon. Faculty page. McMaster University. and PubMed Search for K. Ann McKibbon's publications.
- Bayley L. McKibbon A. Evidence-based librarianship: another addition to the EBP family. Evidence Based Health Care Newsletter 2003; 33:5-6
- McKibbon KA, Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB; Hedges Team. Retrieving randomized controlled trials from medline: a comparison of 38 published search filters. Health Info Libr J. 2009 Sep;26(3):187-202.
- McKibbon KA. The Effect of Risk Attitude and Uncertainty Comfort on Primary Care Physicians' Use of Electronic Information Resources. PhD Thesis. 2005. University of Pittsburgh
- McKibbon KA, Bayley L. Health professional education, evidence-based health care, and health sciences librarians. Reference Services Review 2004 32(1):50-53.
- Bayley L, McKibbon A. Evidence-based librarianship: a personal perspective from the medical/nursing realm. Library Hi Tech 2006 24(3): 317- 323.
- McKibbon A, Bayley L. The role of the librarian in evidence-based medicine. Reference Services Review, 2004 32(1):50-53.
- McKibbon KA , Fridsma DB, Crowley RS. How primary care physicians' attitudes toward risk and uncertainty affect their use of electronic information resources. J Med Libr Assoc 2007;95(2):138-46.
- McKibbon KA , Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB. Developing optimal search strategies for retrieving qualitative studies in PsycINFO. Eval Health Prof 2006;29(4):440-54.
- McKibbon KA , Fridsma DB. Effectiveness of clinician-selected electronic information resources for answering primary care physicians' information needs. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2006;13(6):653-9.
- Haynes RB, McKibbon KA, Wilczynski NL, Walter SD, Werre SR; Hedges Team. Optimal search strategies for retrieving scientifically strong studies of treatment from Medline: analytical survey. BMJ 2005;330(7501):1179.
- McKibbon KA , Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB. What do evidence-based secondary journals tell us about the publication of clinically important articles in primary healthcare journals? BMC Med. 2004 Sep 6; 2:33.
- McKibbon KA, Gadd CS. A quantitative analysis of qualitative studies in clinical journals for the 2000 publishing year. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2004 Jul 22; 4:11.
- McKibbon A. Bayley L. Evidence-based librarianship - what is it and why should you care? OLA Access, 2003 10(4): 40-42.
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