Mulford Library Blog

By Janice Flahiff

Spring Images is a growing collection of scientific images from Springer publications. It covers scientific, technical and medical fields, with clinical images from images.MD. One may search captions, keywords, context and more, even jumping from the image to the source article. Users can create personalized image “sets,” and can easily export images for use in their own presentations or lectures.

Springer Exemplar lets you search for and then see how a particular term or phrase is used in peer-reviewed material published by Springer.  Obviously the search is limited to only Springer content.   However Springer is a large publisher and the interface is easy to use.   Subject, Country and Journal category filters that appear with search results. There’s also a year of publication visualiser in graph format.  This is potentially useful in searching for unique keywords and specific years or subjects. It could also serve as an additional search to more focused Pubmed searches involving MeSH terms (Medical Subject Headings).

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By Janice

MedlinePlus recently released a new version of the A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia that includes approximately 400 new Patient Instruction pages, covering pre-operative information and instructions, discharge instructions, self-care instructions, and questions to ask your doctor.
The Patient Instruction pages are available in both English and Spanish, and you will be able to find them in the MedlinePlus search engine (at the home page)  and A-Z index pages for the Encyclopedia. Additionally, you will see links to related Patient Instructions in the side-bar of many encyclopedia articles.

The Micromedex Health Care Series (available only on the UT-HSC campus) contains a wide range of evidence based information  including drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine.

A sampling of information accessible through the tabs:
Drugs
*Review extensive drug information (including generics) with references
*Specific database search provides summaries, consults, evaulations (comparisons with similar drugs)
* Compare drug summaries in a side by side format
*Therapeutic classes
*Black Box Warnings

Toxicology
*Toxic Substance list
–searchable by product/substance, imprint code, active ingredientm and product ID
– option to look up AAPCC codes
*Drug Identification interface including imprint code, shape, color, and pattern
*Specific Database Search includes select material from POISINDEX® Managements
*Specific Topic Search includes search refinements as clincial effects, range of toxicity, laboratory monitoring, and treatment

Interactions
*By entering any number of drugs, up to 128 concurrent clinical conflicts can be reviewed on the spot

Patient Ed
*Includes the Care Note sytem where one may personalize a patient handout

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The US Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ) strives to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.  It focuses on clinical information, consumer/patient information, and provides information in the forms as data & surveys,
and research findings.

The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
Key components of NGC include:
—–Structured abstracts (summaries) about the guideline and its
development
—–Links to full-text guidelines, where available [If no full text is
available, please search by journal title in
the UTcatalog, single citation matcher in PubMed, or Ask-A-Health-Science Librarian]
—–A Guideline Comparison utility that gives users the ability to
generate side-by-side comparisons for any combination of two
or more guidelines
—–Unique guideline comparisons called Guideline Syntheses compare guidelines covering similar topics, highlighting areas of similarity and difference. NGC Guideline Syntheses often provide a comparison of guidelines developed in different countries, providing insight into commonalities and differences in international health practices.

Other more specialized sources of practice guidelines include

–Practice Guidelines in AccessMedicine (click on Guidelines) [restricted to UT-HSC affiliates
–American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Practice Standards
–Health Services/Technology Assessment Text - assesses the clinical utility of medical interventions.

For more information or further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assistance.

MD Consult now presents results of symptom searches arranged within these clinically relevant categories: Overview, Etiology, Diagnosis (including DDX), and Treatment/Management.
Enter a symptom in the search box and Search all sections.
Symptom search results also include additional resources through the tab Top Results from All Sections.

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The Mulford Library provides access to numerous full text electronic books and many online knowledgebases. Off-campus access of most resources is restricted to faculty, residents, staff, and students affiliated with the Medical Center or Health Science Campus colleges.

Here is a sampling
• AccessMedicine - clinical and medical textbooks and more
• eMedicine/Medscape - peer reviewed articles on over 6,500 diseases and medical topics, richly illustrated with some 28,000 multimedia files
•MD Consult -full text access to selected medical texts, drug information, patient handouts, and more
• Nursing Consult [not available off campus] -includes books, practice guidelines, clinical updates, and more
• OhioLINK e-book center - online books in all academic areas
•R2 Digital Library Books -select medical, nursing, and allied health books
•UpToDate [not available off Campus] -clinical information resource containing over 7,400 topical articles in 13 medical specialties written by over 3,800 experts in their respective fields

More links at Full Text Resources.

Please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assisstance with your research and reference needs.

Resources for patients and the general public

Novel H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) (US Centers for Disease Control)
includes background and general information, and current situation (with maps)
Links to detailed information for specific groups include

•Resources for Child Care Programs, Schools, Colleges, and Universities, Parents and Caregivers, Pregnant Women, and Business & Employees (including Travel Information)

• H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) (US National Library of Medicine)
Links to overviews, diagnosis/symptom information, treatment, related research,news, and more

Resources for healthcare professionals
•Novel H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) (Novel H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) (US Centers for Disease Control)includes Resources for clinicians and Resources for laboratories
• H1N1 Influenza (Swine Flu) (eMedicine article, free, registration required)
• MDConsult – search for H1N1 in all sections, results will include agency updates, practice guidelines, diagnosis, treatment, and more
• UpToDate – search for H1N1 for clinically relevant material
•Influenza Evidence-Based Information Portal (Ebscohost)For Clinicians section has free excerpts from Dynamed.
• H1N1 (Influenza) Searchable Information Center - links to reports and publications worldwide

News
• News in Public Health
• Medline Plus Swine Flu News
• PLoS Currents: Influenza (A moderated collection for rapid and open sharing of useful new scientific data, analyses, and ideas)

The UT Flu Preparedness page provides general information and resources as well as UT specific plans.

For additional information and resources, please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assistance.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health now has links to nursing procedure videos. Click on the Browse Tab and select Video Training Programs. Seventy-five (75) videos are currently available, ranging from 2002 to the present.

A sampling of titles —
*Bloodborne Pathogens Safety (2007)
*Patient Safety, Your First Concern (2008)
*Wound Care, Nursing Interventions (2007)
*Enteral Feeding Tubes (2006)
*Preventing Medication Errors (2002)

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eMedicine bills itself as a continually updated clinical reference.
The evidence-based content, updated regularly by more than 8,000 attributed physician or health care provider authors and editors, provides the latest practice guidelines in 38 clinical areas. The eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base contains articles on over 6,500 diseases and medical topics, and is richly illustrated with some 28,000 multimedia files.
Information about their peer review process and editorial board may be found here.

eMedicine articles are grouped by specialites - medicine, surgery, and pediatrics. Most articles include a definition, epidemiology, etiology, clinical features, DDX, as well as prognosis and predictive factors. References are included.

This is a great complement to other Full Text Resources provided by the Mulford Library as UpToDate, AccessMedicine, and MDConsult.

Free, but registration is required.

Please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assistance with your research and information needs.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA) provides access to substance abuse and mental health research data . It strives to promote the sharing of these data among researchers, academics, policymakers, service providers, and others. The goal is to increase the use of the data to most accurately understand and assess substance abuse and mental health problems and the impact of related treatment systems.

SAMHDA holdings consist mainly of data derived from surveys and administrative records. These data were originally collected for specific research or administrative purposes. However, the data have research potential that outlives the original purposes for which they were collected.

Data may be found through the search box at the main page, and links within the search box as the browse function and the codebooks list (study description and organized variable lists). Data may be analyzed online. Quick Tables allow you to produce analytic tables by choosing from among pre-selected high-interest variables in drop-down menus.

The main page includes links to tutorials and FAQs, as well as links to other data resources.

Please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assistance with your research and informational needs.