Reference resources in the health sciences

Objectives

• Develop an overview of health sciences reference sources

• Practice using reference resources• Engage in a brief tour of the historical

resources collection at DUMCL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kklly88V1g&feature=related

Prizes

Rules

Types of resources

• Bibliographic resources for monographs• Bibliographic resources for periodicals• Primary research database• Secondary research database• Clinical reference and EBM databases• Textbooks• Consumer health• US government documents and technical reports• Conferences and conference proceedings• Terminology resources• Handbooks and manuals• Resources on personal digital assistants• Drug information• Medical and health statistics• Directories, biographical and historical resources• Grant sources• Complementary and alternative medicine

Bibliographic sources for monographs

http://www.doody.com/dct/

Bibliographic sources for periodicals

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=journals

Bibliographic sources for periodicals

From the Journals database in NCBI Entrez, what are the full titles for the following journal abbreviations?

Acta Chir BelgJ Magn ResonSoc Sci Med

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1

Primary research database

/MEDLINE Biomedical subjects

Nursing and allied health

IPA Pharmacy and pharmacologyInternational Pharmaceutical Abstracts

PsycINFO Behavioral science and mental health

Primary research database

1. Through UNC HSL access, conduct a visual search in IPA (International Pharmaceutical Abstracts).

2. Search for articles about “acetylsalicylic acid”.

3. Then filter to retrieve articles about:– Clinical outcomes AND– Toxicity

4. How many results do you get?

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2

Secondary research database

Secondary research database

• Search ClinicalTrials.gov• Currently at University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill, how many clinical trials are recruiting participants for schizophrenia research?

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3

Clinical reference and EBM databases

Clinical reference and EBM databases

• Start UpToDate• Find information on the treatment of early

prostate cancer• Name 2 types of radiation therapies

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4

Textbooks

Electronic book collectionsAccessMedicine

Books@OvidMD ConsultSTAT!Ref

Consumer Health

Consumer health databases

http://medlineplus.gov

http://www.noah-health.org/

Consumer health databases

• Search the MedlinePlus medical encyclopedia• Find a “slide image” of a brain section with

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

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5

Consumer health databases

• Go Local on Medlineplus.gov• Find an acupuncturist in Forsyth County, NC

Q

6

US Government Documents

US Government technical reports

Conferences and conference proceedings

Terminology resources

Handbooks and manuals

• Reference guides• They provide:

– factual data for basic sciences– Information for clinical diagnosis and treatment

• Categories:– Scientific data books and compendia– Disease classification and nomenclature– Laboratory methods and laboratory diagnosis– Clinical diagnosis and treatment

Resources on personal digital assistants

The ABX Guide – Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious DiseasesScreenshots: http://tiny.cc/a1vs2

Drug information, 1

Drug information, 2

Drug information, 3

Drug information

• Use Micromedex (the drug database)• 2 part question:

– Search under INTERACTIONS, can you take Januvia while breastfeeding?

– What is Januvia used for?

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Q

Medical and health statistics, 1

Medical and health statistics, 2

Directories, biographical and historical sources

Grant Sources

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

NCAAM question

• http://nccam.nih.gov/• In the National Center for Complementary and

Alternative Medicine database, identify some mind-body medicine therapies for anxiety.

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Further reading

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