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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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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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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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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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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Consumer health databases
• Go Local on Medlineplus.gov• Find an acupuncturist in Forsyth County, NC
Q
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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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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
2008
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