“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.

EBPEBP

Your Your Clinical ExpertiseClinical Expertise

Patient’s Patient’s Values & Values &

PreferencesPreferences

Best Available Best Available Scientific Scientific EvidenceEvidence

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 colonoscopyfor identifying polyps in a 50 year old womanwith no symptoms of colon cancer?

P: Patient, Population, and/or Problem50 year old woman

I: Intervention or ExposureComputed tomographic colonography

C: Comparison Intervention or ExposureColonoscopy

O: Desired OutcomeIdentifying polyps

My NCBI-Email Table of Contents of Journals

HighWire Press – Email Table of

Contents

http://bmjupdates.mcmaster.ca/index.asp

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