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“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. This is Pam White, your Library Liaison. Pam White. Objectives.
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“I Know I Read That Somewhere” Using Library Resources to Find & Manage Information for Research and Clinical Practice Marilyn Rosen, MLSPamela White, RN, MLSHealth Science Libraries & Technologies
This is Pam White, your Library Liaison Pam White
Objectives • Demonstrate features in PubMed@UR 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.
Your Clinical Expertise EBP 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
What is RSS? • Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary • Content can be delivered without cluttering your email 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 (www.onfolio.com) • 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 (www.google.com/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 http://ebling.library.wisc.edu/bjd/journals/rss/index.cfm
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
I am not Pam White Marilyn Rosen