“I Know I Read That Somewhere” Using Library Resources to Find & Manage Information for Research and Clinical Practice Marilyn Rosen, MLS Pamela White, RN, MLS Health Science Libraries & Technologies
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Objectives Demonstrate features in that enable you to focus a search to find evidence-based literature. Discover tools to help you stay informed of the latest research that affects your clinical work. Explore other evidence-based resources available through the libraries. Introduce citation management software to help organize research and create bibliographies.
What is EBM? The judicious and systematic use of the best current evidence in making decisions about the care of the individual patient. EBM is meant to integrate clinical expertise with the best available research evidence, and with patient values.
EBP Your Clinical Expertise Patient’s Values & Preferences Best Available Scientific Evidence
Review - Five Steps of EBM Convert information needs into answerable questions Find in the medical literature the best evidence with which to answer them Critically appraise that evidence for its validity and usefulness Apply the results of this appraisal in your practice Evaluate your performance
Clinical Question: Is computed tomographic colonography (Virtual colonoscopy) as good as colonoscopy for identifying polyps in a 50 year old woman with no symptoms of colon cancer? P:Patient, Population, and/or Problem 50 year old woman I:Intervention or Exposure Computed tomographic colonography C:Comparison Intervention or Exposure Colonoscopy O:Desired Outcome Identifying polyps
My NCBI- Table of Contents of Journals
HighWire Press – Table of Contents
What is RSS? Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary Content can be delivered without cluttering your inbox Avoid conventional searching or browsing websites Written in internet coding language XML (Extensible Markup Language) Makes anything on the web “subscribable”. Need an RSS reader to read an RSS feed
What is an RSS Reader? Small software program that collects and displays RSS feeds. We recommend: Onfolio Google Reader Refworks
Recommended RSS Readers Onfolio ( Free Browser based Must be downloaded & installed in Internet Explorer Feeds delivered to single computer Many bells & whistles (reading lists, folders, etc.)
Recommended RSS Readers Google Reader ( Free No installation required Not browser-based; must login to web site to view feeds Web-based; can access your account from any computer
Recommended RSS Readers RefWorks Useful if you use RefWorks already Web-based You can import data into your RefWorks database
List of medical Journals offering RSS feeds
What is Social Bookmarking? Web based bookmarks, instead of computer-based Can help you manage and organize information Easy to share with others
Recommended Tool - Connotea Geared towards the scientist Created and operated by Nature Publishing Easy to share your library with others
PubMed Limit to Publication types ( Clinical Trial, Practice Guidelines, Reviews, Evaluation Studies, Meta-Analysis, Multi-center Study, Validation Studies) Clinical Queries Systematic Reviews Related articles Single Citation Matcher My NCBI
Keeping Current MY NCBI Ovid Auto Alerts Daily Poems bmjupdates RSS Readers: Google reader, RefWorks, Onfolio Social Bookmarking: Connotea
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