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 (By Margaret Henderson - Originally Posted to TML News & Notes Blog)

PubMed Health, a new resource from the National Library of Medicine, specializes in reviews of clinical effectiveness research, with easy-to-read summaries for consumers as well as full technical reports.

PubMed Health pulls together information from many agencies: summaries from The Cochrane Collaboration and the National Health Service (NHS) National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment Programme, and full text reviews from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Drug Effectiveness Review Project (DERP) at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), England's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines program, and the Department of Veterans Affairs' Evidence-based Synthesis Program.

PubMed Health includes consumer, executive/policymaker, and clinical summaries of systematic reviews as well as the full-text of systematic reviews.  There is also a medical encyclopedia that presents medical and drug information for consumers.  The results page (below) allows you to choose the type of summary you want (1), view your topic in the Medical Encyclopedia (2), and find other systematic reviews with a PubMed Clinical Queries search (3).

Behind Headlines comes from the NHS and covers the research behind recent health news.  For instance, there was a headline that ice cream is 'addictive like drugs' recently and there is an analysis of the actual study showing that did not really state that.

Access Medicine is a multimedia database that we have here at Tompkins-McCaw Library that can be useful to students and health professionals in all of the schools here on the MCV campus.   The database is regularly updated and contains images, interactive self-assessments on an assortment of  topics, case files, and diagnostic tools. The resources contained in this database are ones that users can access while on campus but also remotely from home.  

• Electronic Books:contains more than 60 f titles.  These books not only contain the full text of the book you would find on the shelf, but also many have exclusive online content that is updated regularly.   Some of the titles that are contained in the database are:

Well it is another busy month here at the library and I just wanted to alert you to upcoming events and new resources here in the library that you may find of interest. 

VCU Libraries Exhibits at TML:

TML has recently renovated the gallery space on the first floor and will be displaying works of art by various artists.  These exhibits will change from time to time and I hope that you will come to TML and spend some time viewing them.  The first of these exhibits is:

"Bedpan Elegance: Celebrating the Beauty of an Everyday Object"

Exhibit Website

• Electronic Books

New nurse's survival guide / Genevieve E. Chandler

 Internet Resources RT41 .C34 2010eb 

Nursing delegation, setting priorities, and making patient care assignments

Patricia Kelly, Maureen Marthalar.  

Internet Resources RT89.3 .K45 2011eb

Statistics at square one/ M.J. Campbell, T.D.V. Swinscow

Internet Resources RA407 .C3588 2009eb

• Books on the Shelf
  

Rights-based approaches to public health / Elvira Beracochea, Corey Weinstein, Dabney P. Evans, editors.  

Tompkins-McCaw Library RA394 .R555 2011 Normal Loan 

An entry to this blog that I am going to try to make on a regular basis is one that highlights various databases, with some instruction on how to use them.   The library has several databases that may be useful to those doing research in the field of nursing other than CINAHL and PubMed.   The first resource I have chosen to highlight is Global Health on CAB Direct.  This database is really useful for those looking for information on health issues with an international perspective.This database has citations and abstracts from the international literature of public health. It has a particularly strong emphasis on medical entomology, human nutrition, vector control, and medicinal plants. I have highlighted some facts about the database below and you will also find a short video giving some tips on how to use the database. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you should have any questions using this database.

Global Health on CAB Direct - Coverage: (1910 - present) 

Key Features

Global reach: captures international literature that is not covered by other

databases and so provides users with a truly global perspective

Unique: 60% of the journals contained in Global Health are unique to the

Database

Specially selected: literature is selected by subject specialists. Only relevant

papers are included, and content is directed by an international editorial

advisory board

Comprehensive: the database covers all aspects of public health at both

international and community level, as well as a wealth of material from other biomedical and life science fields

Key Facts

Fully searchable bibliographic database, available on multiple platforms

Contains over 1.2 million scientific records from 1973 to the present day

Over 100,000 records added each year

Information is sourced from more than 5,000 serials, books, book chapters,

reports, conference proceedings, patents, theses, electronic publications, and

other hard-to-find resources. Over 3,000 of these are unique to Global Health

Covers journals from major lists, including:

- BMA National Medical Association

- Evidence-based practice for Public Health (Lamar Soutter Library, Massachusetts)

- Core Public Health Journals Project (US Medical Library Association)

- World Public Health Association

Publications from over 158 countries in 50 languages are abstracted.

97% of records have an English abstract and 14% are from non-English

language sources

Controlled vocabulary indexing to improve retrieval