1 2021 NLM NCBI PubMed Clinical Queries

NLM NCBI PubMed Clinical Queries Survey
OMB Control Number: 0925-0648
Expiration Date: 05/31/2021
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Q1 Which role most closely describes you? (Please choose the best option.) *

o Student
o Researcher
o Educator/trainer
o Librarian or information professional
o Healthcare Professional
o Patient, family, caregiver, or friend of patient
o Other (please specify below) ________________________________________________

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Q2 What was your primary reason for visiting PubMed today? (Please choose the best option.) *

o Find biomedical literature
o Find information about medical conditions or medical devices
o Find information on clinical studies or clinical trials
o Find biomedical data
o Find historical information about medicine or health
o Find literature and/or data on COVID-19 specifically
o Other (please specify below) ________________________________________________
Q3 Which of the following specialized PubMed Clinical Queries did you use today? *

o COVID-19
o Clinical Study
o Both
o I did not use the PubMed Clinical Queries
o I don’t know / Not sure

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Q4 If you did not use PubMed Clinical Queries for a search, why not? (Select all that apply.) *

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They didn't seem like a useful resource for me
I prefer to structure my own searches/queries
I wasn’t sure how to use the Clinical Queries page
I didn't know PubMed has Clinical Queries available as a resource

Other (please specify below)
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Q5 Were you able to find the information you were seeking using the PubMed Clinical Queries? *

o Yes
o Partially
o No

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Q6 How easy was it to understand how to conduct a search on the PubMed Clinical Queries page? *

o Very easy
o Somewhat easy
o Neither easy nor difficult
o Somewhat difficult
o Very difficult

Q7 Please describe what about conducting a search was confusing or difficult to understand.
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Q8 How easy was it to understand your search results on the PubMed Clinical Queries page? *

o Very easy
o Somewhat easy
o Neither easy nor difficult
o Somewhat difficult
o Very difficult

Q9 Please describe what about the search results was confusing or difficult to understand.
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Q10 Why did you use the COVID-19 Clinical Query search rather than the main PubMed search
for your research? (Select all that apply.)

o I wanted to refine my search with the built-in Clinical Queries search filters
o A colleague, librarian, physician or someone else suggested it
o I wanted to see if/how the results differed between the Clinical Queries and the main search
o I didn’t realize there was a difference between the Clinical Queries and the main search
o Other (please specify below) ________________________________________________
Q11 Do you have any comments on how we can improve PubMed Clinical Queries?
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Q12 On a scale from 0-10, how likely are you to recommend PubMed Clinical Queries to a
friend, family member, or colleague? (0 being Not at all Likely | 10 being Extremely likely) *

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Q13 Have you the used NCBI's LitCOVID resource?
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/)

o Yes
o No

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Q14 Are there other resources you have used for your COVID-19 research, and what did you like
about them?
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