- 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