PubMed Essentials, Mastering the World’s Health Research Database
PubMed Essentials, Mastering the World’s Health Research Database

Author: Bengt Edhlund

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-06-24

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1312289457

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A user's guide to smarter searching of medical information, 'PubMed Essentials' is the complete and concise guide on how to navigate your way through and perfect your use of PubMed. This book explains in detail the general features, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), different search strategies, logical filters and how to communicate PubMed records between colleagues. My NCBI is descibed as a powerful alert service with your choice of logical filters and how you build and store your own collection of records in PubMed. Since then this service has developed and its functionality and reliability have improved. Today, PubMed is the most popular database out of this system of NCBI databases. PubMed is the essential tool for health researchers worldwide, handling millions of queries per day.

MEDLINE
MEDLINE

Author: Brian S. Katcher

Publisher: Ashbury Press

Published: 2006-02-01

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 0967344514

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"....a well-written, quick read perfect for medical librarianship students, physicians, and researchers or anyone interested in improving their MEDLINE searching abilities." -- Journal of the Medical Library Association This concise and clearly written book will make your PubMed searches more productive. This completely revised second edition of Brian Katcher's MEDLINE: a guide to effective searching in PubMed and other interfaces promotes the cultivation of an informed and thoughtful approach to searching in PubMed/MEDLINE and other interfaces to MEDLINE. MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's on-line bibliographic database, is the premiere index to the world's biomedical literature. It is the primary component of PubMed. MEDLINE is exquisitely organized: each journal article is manually indexed under an average of a dozen Medical Subject Headings (MeSH Terms), one or more publication types, and more. An understanding of this organization is essential to effective searching. Any health professional, health sciences student, or researcher will benefit from reading this book. It explains the basics of formulating searches, shows how to put the main indexing elements in MEDLINE to best use, illustrates the importance of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), provides guidance for framing questions, and backs everything up with practical examples. MEDLINE: a guide to effective searching in PubMed and other interfaces is an essential resource for those concerned with evidence-based medicine and those engaged in biomedical research. Medical librarians and teachers of medical informatics will find this book to be useful in promoting the careful use of PubMed/MEDLINE. Sometimes simply reading a linear narrative--even on a screen--is a good way to learn. In addition, PubMed offers excellent on-line tutorials.

Finding What Works in Health Care
Finding What Works in Health Care

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2011-07-20

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0309164257

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Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize the findings of similar but separate studies, and can help clarify what is known and not known about the potential benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and other healthcare services. Systematic reviews can be helpful for clinicians who want to integrate research findings into their daily practices, for patients to make well-informed choices about their own care, for professional medical societies and other organizations that develop clinical practice guidelines. Too often systematic reviews are of uncertain or poor quality. There are no universally accepted standards for developing systematic reviews leading to variability in how conflicts of interest and biases are handled, how evidence is appraised, and the overall scientific rigor of the process. In Finding What Works in Health Care the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends 21 standards for developing high-quality systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research. The standards address the entire systematic review process from the initial steps of formulating the topic and building the review team to producing a detailed final report that synthesizes what the evidence shows and where knowledge gaps remain. Finding What Works in Health Care also proposes a framework for improving the quality of the science underpinning systematic reviews. This book will serve as a vital resource for both sponsors and producers of systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research.

Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes
Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes

Author: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQ

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1587634333

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This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.

Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule
Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2009-03-24

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0309124999

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In the realm of health care, privacy protections are needed to preserve patients' dignity and prevent possible harms. Ten years ago, to address these concerns as well as set guidelines for ethical health research, Congress called for a set of federal standards now known as the HIPAA Privacy Rule. In its 2009 report, Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy, Improving Health Through Research, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Health Research and the Privacy of Health Information concludes that the HIPAA Privacy Rule does not protect privacy as well as it should, and that it impedes important health research.

Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains
Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains

Author: Leonid Kalinichenko

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-04-20

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 3319571354

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains, DAMDID/RCDL 2016, held in Ershovo, Moscow, Russia, in October 2016. The 16 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk and two keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on semantic modeling in data intensive domains; knowledge and learning management; text mining; data infrastructures in astrophysics; data analysis; research infrastructures; position paper.

A Practical Guide to PubMed
A Practical Guide to PubMed

Author: F. van Etten

Publisher: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum

Published: 2009-10-29

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9789031378111

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The guide that helps you to search quickly and efficiently in PubMed! A Practical Guide to PubMed is a guide that provides a clear overview of the many possibilities that PubMed has to offer. PubMed (www.pubmed.gov) provides free access to MEDLINE and is the most widely used medical search engine. In this completely revised edition of A Practical Guide to PubMed concise and clear chapters cover the following topics:• How do I formulate a good search questions?• What search options does PubMed offer and which search strategy provides me with the best results?• How can I broaden or narrow down search results?Faridi van Etten is employed at the medical library of the Academisch Medisch Centrum (Academic Medical Center) and regularly teaches courses on this topic. Rikie Deurenberg works as an information specialist at the Kwaliteitsinstituut voor de Gezondheidszorg (Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement) CBO.A Practical Guide to PubMed is a book that is indispensable to specialists, family doctors, company and insurance physicians, physical therapists and other paramedics, nursing staff and anyone who is in training for these professions.

Pubmed Essentials
Pubmed Essentials

Author: Bengt Edhlund

Publisher:

Published: 2006-04

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781411688407

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Rev. ed. of: Basic principles of PubMed: a user's guide to smarter searching of medical information. 2005.

Health Professions Education
Health Professions Education

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2003-07-01

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 030913319X

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The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002, where 150 participants across disciplines and occupations developed ideas about how to integrate a core set of competencies into health professions education. These core competencies include patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. This book recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement, including those related to oversight processes, the training environment, research, public reporting, and leadership. Educators, administrators, and health professionals can use this book to help achieve an approach to education that better prepares clinicians to meet both the needs of patients and the requirements of a changing health care system.

Health Informatics: Practical Guide for Healthcare and Information Technology Professionals (Sixth Edition)
Health Informatics: Practical Guide for Healthcare and Information Technology Professionals (Sixth Edition)

Author: Robert E. Hoyt

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 1304791106

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Health Informatics (HI) focuses on the application of Information Technology (IT) to the field of medicine to improve individual and population healthcare delivery, education and research. This extensively updated fifth edition reflects the current knowledge in Health Informatics and provides learning objectives, key points, case studies and references.