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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 Slide 2 This is Pam White, your Library Liaison Pam White Slide 3 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. Slide 4 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. Slide 5 EBP Your Clinical Expertise Patients Values & Preferences Best Available Scientific Evidence Slide 6 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 Slide 7 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 Slide 8 Slide 9 Slide 10 Slide 11 Slide 12 Slide 13 My NCBI-Email Table of Contents of Journals Slide 14 HighWire Press Email Table of Contents Slide 15 Slide 16 http://bmjupdates.mcmaster.ca/index.asp Slide 17 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 Slide 18 What is an RSS Reader? Small software program that collects and displays RSS feeds. We recommend: Onfolio Google Reader Refworks Slide 19 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.) Slide 20 Slide 21 Slide 22 Slide 23 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 Slide 24 Slide 25 Slide 26 Slide 27 Recommended RSS Readers RefWorks Useful if you use RefWorks already Web-based You can import data into your RefWorks database Slide 28 Slide 29 Slide 30 Slide 31 List of medical Journals offering RSS feeds http://ebling.library.wisc.edu/bjd/journals/rss/index.cfm Slide 32 What is Social Bookmarking? Web based bookmarks, instead of computer-based Can help you manage and organize information Easy to share with others Slide 33 Recommended Tool - Connotea Geared towards the scientist Created and operated by Nature Publishing Easy to share your library with others Slide 34 Slide 35 Slide 36 Slide 37 Slide 38 Slide 39 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 Slide 40 Keeping Current MY NCBI Ovid Auto Alerts Daily Poems bmjupdates RSS Readers: Google reader, RefWorks, Onfolio Social Bookmarking: Connotea Slide 41 I am not Pam White Marilyn Rosen