MEDLINE search retrieval issues: A longitudinal query analysis of five vendor platforms.

This study compared the results of data collected from a longitudinal query analysis of the MEDLINE database hosted on multiple platforms that include PubMed, EBSCOHost, Ovid, ProQuest, and Web of Science. The goal was to identify variations among the search results on the platforms after controlling for search query syntax. We devised twenty-nine cases of search queries comprised of five semantically equivalent queries per case to search against the five MEDLINE database platforms.

Clinical presentation of patients with prior coronary artery bypass grafting and suspected acute myocardial infarction.

Aims: Diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) can be challenging in patients with prior coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).

Methods And Results: Final diagnoses were adjudicated by two independent cardiologists using the universal definition of AMI among patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with suspected AMI. Diagnostic accuracy of 34 chest pain characteristics (CPCs) and four electrocardiogram (ECG) signatures stratified according to the presence or absence of prior CABG were prospectively quantified.

Search results outliers among MEDLINE platforms.

Objective: Hypothetically, content in MEDLINE records is consistent across multiple platforms. Though platforms have different interfaces and requirements for query syntax, results should be similar when the syntax is controlled for across the platforms. The authors investigated how search result counts varied when searching records among five MEDLINE platforms.

Characteristics of personal health information management groups: findings from an online survey using Amazon's mTurk.

Objective: The study characterized three groups with different levels of familiarity with personal health information management (PHIM) in terms of their demographics, health knowledge, technological competency, and information sources and barriers. In addition, the authors examined differences among PHIM groups in subjective self-ratings and objective test scores for health literacy.

Methods: A total of 202 survey participants were recruited using Amazon's Mechanical Turk (mTurk) service, a crowdsourcing Internet service.

Examining care navigation: librarian participation in a team-based approach?

Objective: This study investigated responsibilities, skill sets, degrees, and certifications required of health care navigators in order to identify areas of potential overlap with health sciences librarianship.

Method: The authors conducted a content analysis of health care navigator position announcements and developed and assigned forty-eight category terms to represent the sample's responsibilities and skill sets.

Results: Coordination of patient care and a bachelor's degree were the most common responsibility and degree requirements, respectively.

Enhancing the care navigation model: potential roles for health sciences librarians.

This study analyzed the overlap between roles and activities that health care navigators perform and competencies identified by the Medical Library Association’s (MLA’s) educational policy statement.Roles and activities that health care navigators perform were gleaned from published literature. Once common roles and activities that health care navigators perform were identified, MLA competencies were mapped against those roles and activities to identify areas of overlap.

Outreach impact study: the case of the Greater Midwest Region.

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to assess the impact that funding from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Greater Midwest Region (GMR), has on member institutions' ability to conduct outreach on behalf of NN/LM.

Methods: The study employed both content analysis and survey methodologies. The final reports from select GMR-funded outreach projects (n = 20) were analyzed based on a set of evaluation criteria.

The effect of patients' race on provider treatment choices in coronary care: a literature review for model development.

This selective literature review provides insight into the depth and breadth of the problem of unequal medical treatment of Blacks compared with Whites, with particular focus on coronary heart disease. Poor health outcomes among Blacks, when compared with Whites, are well documented, and these disparities are linked to lower quality of and less aggressive medical treatment. It is not clear why these disparities in treatment occur.

"Partnering with Seniors for Better Health": computer use and Internet health information retrieval among older adults in a low socioeconomic community.

Purpose: This health communication project measured the psychosocial influences of computer anxiety, computer confidence, and computer self-efficacy in older adults at six meal congregate sites. The adults completed a five-week education intervention, based on Bandura's self-efficacy model, designed to assist older adults in retrieving and evaluating health information resources on the Internet.

Methods: One hundred thirty-seven participants, ages sixty-five and older, were randomized in a controlled, two-group, pre-post, repeated measures design.

Working in an eICU unit: life in the box.

This ethnographic study of the VISICU eICU (VSISCU, Inc., Baltimore, MD) work environment in a large midwestern health care system describes everyday life working in a telemedicine intensive care. Data were gathered through 60 hours of observation and formal interviews of eICU clinician team members.

Camp for all connection: a community health information outreach project.

Purpose: The purpose of the Camp For All Connection project is to facilitate access to electronic health information resources at the Camp For All facility.

Setting/participants/resources: Camp For All is a barrier-free camp working in partnership with organizations to enrich the lives of children and adults with chronic illnesses and disabilities and their families by providing camping and retreat experiences. The camp facility is located on 206 acres in Burton, Texas.

Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences: an interview with Jo Anne Boorkman, Jeffrey T. Huber and Fred W. Roper. Interview by Elizabeth Connor.

Few works serve as solid a framework for the field of health sciences librarianship or provide as many insights and detailed knowledge as Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences. Now in its fourth edition, the book's editors and contributors represent an impressive range of experience, expertise, and subject knowledge appreciated by practicing librarians in a variety of settings and by students of health sciences librarianship. Jo Anne Boorkman, Jeffrey T.

Woman to Woman: Community Health Information Project.

The Woman to Woman: Community Health Information Project facilitates information access at selected community-based women's health agencies in Houston, Texas. The community partners were selected based on objectives outlined in Healthy People 2010. A variety of institutions and disciplines contributed to the planning and implementation of the project.

Complementary and alternative medicine as represented in the HIV/AIDS body of knowledge: a bibliometric analysis.

Although the HIV/AIDS epidemic began more than twenty years ago, there still is no cure for the disease and no vaccine to prevent infection. As with the general population, individuals with HIV/AIDS have sought care using a variety of traditional and nontraditional approaches. The popularity of complementary and alternative interventions among the HIV/AIDS community continues.

Facilitating access to consumer health information: a collaborative approach employing applied research.

Responsibility for the provision of consumer health information typically lies within the public library domain or the health sciences library arena. In many communities, both types of libraries provide support for consumer health information services, often with varying levels of expertise. Public library employees may or may not be trained in the use of health and biomedical information resources.