Sentinel Reader

Role of a Sentinel Reader NB: Sentinel readers must be in independent (unsupervised) clinical practice at least part time.

As a Sentinel Reader, you will be sent by e-mail notice that you have articles to rate in the system. These articles will match your practice discipline. You can control the maximum number of articles sent each month (from 1 to infinity!).

As a Sentinel Reader you will look over the articles online and rate them on two scales:

• one for relevance to your clinical practice
• one for newsworthiness (i.e., is this "news", or something you already know?)

We'll collate your ratings with at least 2 other colleagues and use your ratings to:

• build an evidence-based information system
• choose the most pertinent articles for ACP Journal Club, Evidence-Based Medicine, and other evidence-based information services such as bmjupdates+ (for the BMJ Publishing Group), PIER (for the American College of Physicians), and Medscape (for WebMD) (see How ratings are used)
• show you how other clinicians in your discipline rated the same articles (Rating History)
• send you CME credits yearly that are automatically recorded for each article you rate (or, for areas outside of North America, a letter of recognition)
• show you the highest rated articles in your discipline (Stellar Articles)

• We are most interested in your thoughts about clinical application: Can the results of the study or review be used now? If so, in what clinical circumstances?
  
• If you choose to comment on the research methods of a study, please be very sure that your comments are accurate and methodologically sound
• Raters' comments that appear libelous, blasphemous, or thoughtless in the opinion of the MORE staff will not be used!
• The names of raters, or any information that might identify individual raters, will not be included in the materal that is forwarded to publishers or end-users.

We look forward to our collaboration!