A list of selected reference materials in clinical chemistry.
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This is a compilation of reference materials suggested for scientists considering a laboratory reference collection in clinical chemistry, or for librarians seeking to develop or add to an up-t-o-date library collection. Nine areas are represented: general clinical chemistry; analytical methods, procedures, and techniques; calculations and statistics; the clinical laboratory; drugs and metabolism; enzymology; instrumentation, interpretation of data; and ready reference. (+info)
Selected list of books and journals for the small medical library.
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This revised list of 472 books and 138 journals is intended as a selection guide for small or medium-sized hospital libraries or for the small medical library serving a specified clientele. It can also be used as a core list by small hospital library consortia. Books and journals are categorized by subject, with the books being followed by an author index and the journals by an alphabetical title listing. Items suggested for initial purchase by smaller libraries are indicated by an asterisk. To purchase the entire collection of books and to pay for annual subscriptions to all the journals would require an expenditure of about $18,200. The cost of only the asterisked items recommended for first purchase totals approximately $4,500. (+info)
Geriatrics emphasis in physical therapy. A historical survey.
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The number of elderly individuals and the health care needs of elderly persons are rapidly growing. Are physical therapists interested and involved in meeting the needs of this geriatric group? One measure of physical therapists' interest is the quantity of geriatrics-related articles that appear in our profession's journal. The purpose of this study was to conduct a historical review of the number of geriatrics-related articles published in Physical Therapy. All articles indexed under "geriatrics" between January 1921 and June 1987 were identified and categorized in five-year time intervals to assess trends over time. Geriatrics-indexed articles generally appeared infrequently in the Journal, averaging one article every two years. All Physical Therapy articles published between January 1980 and June 1987 were read to determine whether they exhibited a geriatrics orientation. An average of six geriatrically oriented articles appeared in the Journal annually (about 5% of all articles annually). An increased number of geriatrics articles appeared in the Journal between 1980 and 1987. An imbalance clearly exists when an age group that comprises 25% of our patient population receives attention in only 5% of the Journal articles. As a profession, we must examine our attitudes toward and perceptions about elderly persons if we are to address their needs responsibly. (+info)
Determination of continuing medical education needs of clinicians from a literature search study, Part I. The study.
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Continuing medical education is an area of current concern to health sciences librarians. A comprehensive study of literature searches requested by physicians and by fourth-year medical students serving their five-week preceptorship with a rural physician was conducted: (1) to determine if there is any pattern to the requests received so that areas of study for continuing medical education can be ascertained; and (2) to determine whether there is any appreciable difference in nature and complexity between those searches requested by clinicians and those requested by medical student preceptees. Literature search requests were examined in terms of individual MeSH subjects, subcategories, and categories for each subject covered in every search. This analysis has demonstrated that assessing the clinical problems of practicing physicians may be one method of determining needed continuing medical education topics. (+info)
Determination of continuing medical education needs of clinicians from a literature search study. Part II. Questionnaire results.
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Part II of this study of the needs of clinicians for continuing medical education (CME) examines the results of a questionnaire sent of Oklahoma physicians to determine if they would request formal CME courses in the same subject areas in which they had previously requested in formation from librarians. The degree of correlation between literature search requests and responses to the questionnaire confirms that the analysis of library information requests may be one approach to determining CME needs. (+info)
Mapping from GenBank to MEDLINE.
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GenBank has been based largely on literature that provides nucleic acid sequences. To find additional literature that is relevant to a given sequence, a search of MEDLINE can prove helpful. This paper documents some of the similarities between GenBank and MEDLINE that facilitate retrieval of documents from MEDLINE. In particular, techniques and examples are presented which take GenBank information and lead to MEDLINE information that supplements the GenBank information. (+info)
Continuing physician education: the Ross Conference approach.
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The Ross Conferences on pediatric research are a series designed to assist in the correlation of findings from recent research on subjects pertaining to pediatrics with clinical practice and to stimulate further research by the exchange of information. Reports of the proceedings are published and distributed worldwide to pediatricians and other physicians in order to disseminate information at the leading edge of pediatric medicine. (+info)
Foundations of medical librarianship.
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The development of medical librarianship during the last forty years is examined as reflected in the changes of its resources, technology, education, and knowledge base. A shift from historical to scientific inquiry constitutes the direction of medical librarianship. Its nexus is the gathering of information and the transfer of knowledge. The social and human resources for this ongoing change and the basis for a quest for excellence is seen in the pool of talent represented by hospital librarians and the aspirations of the women's movement for equality. (+info)