Library Announcements
Revision to the Library e-Journal Page
- A new alphabetic index makes finding titles faster.
- A new list of subjects makes finding the right subject easier.
- Use it to access e-journals with a wireless pda.
EndNote Workshop
EndNote is a software program
for organizing and accessing your personal collection of references
to journal articles, books, websites, etc. It is especially
useful when it is time to use the references in papers or articles,
because it works with MSWord to allow quick creation of footnotes
and bibliographies in any style that you are likely to need. See a sneak preview
of the upcoming workshop in this EndNote presentation.
Featured PDA Resource -- Calculating Patient Risk
Two tools in InfoRetriever® on the PDA that can help you make decisions
about a patient’s risk for cerebrovascular and cardiovascular events based on their age,
risk factors and current lipid level and blood pressure are presented here.
When you start InfoRetriever, select under 1. Type of Search: Clinical Rules and Calculators (Figure 1).
Figure 1.
Expand CV: HTN, lipids, screening.
Screening: cardiac risk profile (Framingham Data)
Based on the landmark Framingham long term cohort study, this calculator will tell you the risk of CHD (coronary heart disease),
MI, CHD death, Stroke, CVD (cerebrovascular disease) and CVD death
(Figures 2-4).
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Now the question arises, “How aggressive should I get based on these percentages?”
This is when you close that calculator and from the Clinical Rules and Calculators screen pick:
Screening: NCEP ATP III lipid guidance
Figure 6.
Figure 5.
The ATP III lipid guidelines were derived from the Framingham and other studies.
Based on this patient’s age, lipid and B/P, plus risk factors you are provided
with their 10 year risk of cardiac disease,
and NCEP recommendations for therapy. (Figures 5-6)
Both of these tools are worth adding to Pearls for easy access.
Before you decide what to purchase for your own personal bookshelf,
please check this out to see what is available at your laptop anywhere and anytime
via wireless access to the Medical Library.
The full text of several core medical reference and textbooks, including
the one that you will find on every physician’s bookshelf – Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine,
is available to the FSU CoM online at
AccessMedicine.
Harrison’s is updated regularly with plans by the publisher (McGraw-Hill) to do the same for the
other books.
Figure 1. Lange Books.
Access Lange includes
ready reference material in these areas (Figure 1).
Figure 2. Access Medicine Home Page.
This is the home page where you can cross search all of the Access Medicine books at one time
(Figure 2).
The search demonstrated here is for “dementia”
with the following two screen captures listing hits in different Access Medicine books.
Figure 3. Harrison's Search Results.
Search results from Harrison’s Online
(Figure 3).
Figure 4. Results from Other Books.
More search results from
some of the other Access Medicine reference books (Figure 4).
Figure 5. Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment-top level.
The Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment book, which is also part of the Access Medicine collection,
provides a great interface – very easy to navigate.
Figure 6. Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment-Cardiology.
Figure 7. Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment-Mitral Regurgitation.
Figures 5-7 demonstrate the top level and links from “cardiology” through
to a specific subcategory “Mitral regurgitation.”
