MEDLIB-L selection December 25-29, 2000If you subscribe to MEDLIB-L delete
now. Most messages were requests, with few answers, but I have included
them contrary to my common practice, in case any of you are able to answer
them and feeling the Christmas spirit still...
With a Happy New Millennium to all!
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MEDLIB-L selection December 25-29, 2000
Contents:
1. Evidence Based, Best Evidence, ACP Journal: Confusion & clarifica
tion?(?) [may need rectifying - can somebody check?]
2. Re: Looking for Outreach Plans [info about useful document]
3. IC & fire safety during construction [Request for info - no answers]
4. Consumer anatomy site [Request for info - no answers]
5. ? Tx bites by Leptostraca Nebaliidae [Request for info - no answers]
6. Search question--continue same meds [request for help with one answer]
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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 11:10:15 -0600
From: "Kleinmuntz, Dalia" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Evidence Based, Best Evidence, ACP Journal: Confusion & clarifica
tion?(?)
Dear Colleagues:
THis is being broadcasted "just in case" some of you were puzzling over
same. I hope this solves our up-to-now lack of clarification.
1. Evidence Based Medicine (a hot topic, too) is still being published in
GB, but not available in the US. (Availability ceased with 2000)
2. ACP Journal Club , 2000- picked up the Evidence based info and
incorporated it.
3. Best Evidence is an online product from the ACP, version 4 came out in
March 2000, version 5 due March 2001. It includes the ACP.
4. Evidence-Based MedicineReviews: Online databa via OVID, includes ACP,
Best Evidence & Cochrane.
Hope some of you find the above of interest.
Happy 2001 -
Dalia Kleinmuntz, AHIP [log in to unmask]
Director, Webster Library, Evanston Hospital
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
847-570-2664 847-570-2926 FAX
Opinions expressed are my own and do not reflect those of ENH.
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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 14:45:30 -0800
From: Catherine Burroughs <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Looking for Outreach Plans
For a resource about planning outreach you may be interested in a free
publication called Measuring the Difference: Guide to Planning and
Evaluating Health Information Outreach. The guide has lots of tips and
examples regarding program development and evaluation, especially
outreach targeting health providers or the public who are
unaffiliated or underserved. It also features theories about ways to
motivate/facilitate changes in information seeking behaviors.
To receive free copies, send an email request for "evaluation guide" to
[log in to unmask] Include your name, mailing address, and number of
copies needed. Or, a PDF version is available at
http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/evaluation/guide/
The guide is new, produced as part of a collaborative study about
outreach evaluation by the Pacific Northwest Regional Medical
Library and the National Library of Medicine. White papers from other
fields were commissioned for the project (see
http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/pnr/eval/reviews.html).
Cathy Burroughs, M.L.S.
Planning and Evaluation Specialist
Regional Medical Library, HSLIC PH 206-543-9261
University of Washington FAX 206/543-2469
Box 357155
Seattle, Washington 98195-7155
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Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 14:48:20 +0300
From: "Blucker, Daniel M" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: IC & fire safety during construction
We are looking for information, guidelines, or policies regarding
infection control and fire safety as they apply specifically to
construction projects in and around a clinic and/or hospital.
This concern includes protecting construction workers from nosocomial
infections, as well as controlling the spread of infections or threat of
fires in a clinic and/or hospital during any kind of construction,
remodeling, etc.
Thank you.
Daniel Blucker
Health Sciences Library
Saudi Aramco Medical Services
Saudi Aramco Medical Services
Box 76, Room 0-140
Dhahran 31311, Saudi Arabia
(966-3) 877-3109; fax 877-3411
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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:40:04 -0500
From: Gary Maggi <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: consumer anatomy site
in checking my links this week, I noted the AMA anatomy site was gone. It
had provided clear, simple drawings of parts of the body, and was
particularly useful at our mall consumer sites.
I was unable to ascertain it's current status. Anyone know; any
suggestions for a substitute (Versalis is way to graphic)
TIA
Gary Maggi RN CEN MLS
Clinical RN III, SJHHC ED
Special Projects Coordinator
Knowledge Based Information Services
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:51:44 +1000
From: "Hadley, Alice" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: ? Tx bites by Leptostraca Nebaliidae
The larger question is do you have a great resource for information on
treatment of wounds as a result of human interaction with marine
creatures?
The immediate question is: Do you have any information on the medical
treatment of bites by sea fleas/Nebalia? Or suggestions as to someone I
could contact? I've been asked to find treatment information for a
patient with infected bites. I have not been able to find anything
specific and so assume that they are not venomous and that treatment
should be similar to that of other minor skin infections/bug bites
I have looked at the books Halstead's _Poisonous & venomous marine
animals_ &
_Dangerous marine animals_, Thomas & Scott's _All stings
considered_, _Dangerous plants, snakes, arthropods and marine life_, and
(my only success) the _McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of science and
technology_. As well as searched Micromedex and MEDLINE. Using Google I
was able to find a few WWWeb pages, but so far they are simple biology
identification pages.
TIA (that's Thanks in Advance, NOT Transient Ischemic Attack),
Alice E. Hadley, MLS, AHIP
Medical Library 344-9250
pager 635-3170 fax 344-9290
US Naval Hospital, Guam
<[log in to unmask]>
<http://www.slis.ua.edu/cdlp/outreach/usnhguam>
The more you know the better you heal.
President, Federal Library Section, MLA
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 11:27:16 -0600
From: Garcia Jenny <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Search question--continue same meds
I have run out of ideas on this search request: Sometimes when a patient
is transferred from one unit to another, i.e. from the ICU to the medical
unit, the doctor will write a medication order that says,"Continue same
meds" or "Continue previous meds." Sometimes this results in the patient
receiving medication after it is no longer needed. Is there anything
written about this subject? The patron has also seen a reference to
something in the ISMP Medication Safety Alert but neither one of us can
find anything on it in their web site.
I have tried every combination of mesh headings and textwords that came to
mind, resulting in only a couple of citations that are marginally useful.
Does anyone have any fresh ideas for me?
Thanks,
Jenny
Jenny Garcia, MLS, AHIP
Medical Library
North Suburban Medical Center
9191 Grant St
Thornton CO 80229
phone: (303) 450-3568
Fax: (303) 450-4504
[log in to unmask]
http://www.northsuburban.com
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:29:58 -0500
From: Steven S. Krompf <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Search question--continue same meds
Jenny,
Go to the ISMP (www.ismp.org) website and look under 'lead stories'. The
fourth story down is: "Orders to 'continue previous meds' continue a
longstanding problem."
Have a Happy New Year!
Steve Krompf
Librarian
Greater SE Community Hospital
Wash, DC
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