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Using the Biomedical Library & It’s Resources:Becoming Efficient Information
Managers
BMD 201
Fall 2010
Beverly Rossini
• Information Services Librarian
• Contact Information:Phone: (251) 460-6893Fax: (251) 460-7638Email: [email protected]
University of South Alabama:
Biomedical Library Sites
• Baugh Biomedical Library – Campus Site Primarily supports the academic health
sciences (College of Medicine, Colleges of Nursing & Allied Health)
University of South Alabama:Biomedical Library Sites
• Third floor of the University Medical Center site and now called the Health Information Resource Center Primarily supports the clinical medicine
specialties-collection concentrates on patient care and treatment
University of South Alabama:Biomedical Library Sites
• Children’s and Women’s Hospital site Primarily supports obstetrics, gynecology, and
pediatrics – which is reflected by the library’s collection.
Objectives
• Students can describe challenges inherent in using biomedical literature.
• Students are aware of the USA Biomedical Library’s resources and services.
Objectives
• Students can acquire, evaluate, utilize, and manage the information contained in the biomedical literature held at the USA Biomedical Library.
Biomedical Literature: the Challenges
• VOLUME
• VARIETY
• VARIOUS POINTS OF ACCESS
• RELIABILITY
VOLUME
Set of journals pertinent to primary care physicians in 2002 found 7,287 articles are published monthly in this set of journals.
A physician trained in epidemiology would take an estimated 627.5 hours per month to evaluate articles pertinent to his practice.1
VOLUME
• Nurses, who need to provide decision makers with relatively concise ‘‘bottom-line’’ estimates of effectiveness, report approximately 1,000 systematic review and meta-analyses studies that focus on topics important to infection control professionals are published annually.2
VOLUME
• In biomedical research, the amount of experimental data and published scientific information is “overwhelming and ever increasing, which may inhibit rather than stimulate scientific progress.”3
VARIETY
• Primary information• Secondary information
The Medical Literature
• Primary – original researchExperimental (an intervention is made or variables are
manipulated)• Randomized Control Trials• Controlled trials
Observational (no intervention or variables are manipulated)
• Cohort studies• Case-control studies• Case reports
• Secondary – reviews of original research Meta-analysis Systematic reviews Practice guidelines Reviews Decision analysis Consensus reports Editorial, commentary
The Medical Literature
VARIOUS POINTS OF ACCESS• Personal Libraries:
books & journals• Colleagues• Personal experience• Libraries• Electronic
Information sources (databases)
• Internet
BARRIERS
RELIABILITY
Information on the Internet about head injury pertaining to intensive care: less quantity and more quality is needed.(2006) PMID: 16749874
Rating health information on the Internet: navigating to knowledge or to Babel? (1998) PMID: 9486757
RELIABILITY
Accessibility, nature and quality of health information on the Internet: a survey on osteoarthritis. (2005) PMID: 15572390
What is Evidence Based Practice (EBP)
Short definition: “the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values.”4
Overwhelmed?• So many options –
so much information ... and misinformation.
• The library provides numerous tools to help you navigate this flood of information.
BOOKS?
JOURNALS?
INTERNET?
Biomedical literature is“overwhelming and ever increasing, which may inhibit
rather than stimulate scientific progress.”
Information Management• Focuses on using
valid informationthat which is relevantthat which is accessible
Do researchers ever use books?• SOUTHCat
Various Points of access: Databases
Do you need…
• Practice Guideline/Evidence• Professional literature (journal articles)• Consumer/Patient Info• A fact or data set• To contact a colleague• News item, image, or ???
More than 35
databases, so check
scope noteshttp://biomedicallibrary.southalabama.edu.
Scopus
Controlled language vs Keyword
MESH = Medical Subject Headings
Found in PubMEd database
PubMed
• PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 19 million citations from 4,800 biomedical journals for biomedical articles back to 1948.
• PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
Advantages of PubMed
• Free • Links to publisher’s sites for full-text journals• Or, can order full-text journal articles• Clinical Queries/Systematic Reviews section
limits retrieval to evidence-based citations
More Advantages of PubMed• Can easily limit your search to:
– Age groups– Human or Animal studies– Language– Review articles– Subsets, such as Core Clinical Journals or CAM
• Clipboard allows you to save citations from one search or several searches that you may want to print, save, email, or order
• My NCBI allows you to save search strategies in order to generate updates - including automatic e-mail updates
Various Points of access: Databases
Use MeSH
• flu
Questions?
• Assignment• Go to Biomedical Library’s web pagehttp://biomedicallibrary.southalabama.edu/library/• Center portal: Library Instruction/Library Courses
BMD 201
Submit through assignment portal.
Baugh Biomedical Library: What We Can Do For You
Provide AccessTo search tools.To materials.To information sources both in the library and
from outside.
Teach Effective Searching SkillsLiving in an electronic/information age.Skills important not only for school, but for
your entire careers.Part of lifelong learning-essential to your
profession.
Bibliography1Alper BS, , Hand JA, and Elliott SG. "How much effort is needed to keep up
with the literature relevant for primary care?." Journal Medical o the Library Association. 92.4 (2004): 429-437.
2 Bent S, Shojania KG, Saint S. “The use of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in infection control and hospital epidemiology.” Am J Infect Control. 2004 Jun;32(4):246-54.
3 Weeber M, Kors JA, Mons B. Online tools to support literature-based discovery in the life sciences.” Briefings in Bioinformatics. 2005 September; 6 (3): 277.
4 Sackett, DL. Evidence-based medicine: how to practice and teach EBM. New York: Churchill-Livingston, 2000.