• Developed by a Canadian team from McGill University (Roland Grad and Pierre Pluye)
• It measures the cognitive impact of knowledge resources on health professionals
• The tool has been well validated and tested
• It comprises a 7 item scale developed from an extensive literature review. The scale includes: 
  • No impact 
  • Reassurance (I was more confident) 
  • Confirmation (I was doing the right thing) 
  • Practice improvement (clinical decision making was enhanced) 
  • Recall (I recalled something I’d forgotten) 
  • Learning (I learned something new or updated my knowledge) 
  • Other 
• The tool has been used by the team to test information gained via: 
  • hand held devices,  
  • evidence summaries  
  • alerts by email and  
  • more recently on information for patients. 

See 5 articles by Pluye, P and Grad, R in the References and bibliography