Improving Long-Term Care Facility Disaster Preparedness and Response: A Literature Review.

Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) and their residents are especially susceptible to disruptions associated with natural disasters and often have limited experience and resources for disaster planning and response. Previous reports have offered disaster planning and response recommendations. We could not find a comprehensive review of studied interventions or facility attributes that affect disaster outcomes in LTCFs and their residents.

"Information Survival Skills": a medical school elective.

Objective: The authors developed an elective course to assist students in (1) understanding the changing nature of scholarly communication and online publishing, (2) identifying resources and strategies for searching current best evidence, and (3) demonstrating effective communication of information.

Setting: The course took place in a medical school in the Southwest.

Participants: Second- and third-year medical students participated in the course.

Library and informatics skills competencies statements from major health professional associations.

Every major health profession now provides competency statements for preparing new members for their respective professions. These competency statements normally include expectations for training health professions students in library/informatics skills. For purposes of this article, searches were conducted using various sources to produce a comprehensive 32-page Compendium View Article and Find Full Text PDF