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From: "Oliver Obst" <obsto@uni-muenster.de>
To: medibib-l
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 12:24:34 +0000
Subject: Medlib Digest 17.-27.11.
Hallo,
die Amerikaner feiern nun Thanksgiving: Herzlichen Gleuckwunsch!
Irgendwie war wenig los in der letzten Zeit ...
Gruesse,
Oliver Obst
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1 Patron use of Medline
2 Antwort
3 WWW-Directory for Libraries
4 NLM open
5 Health administration resources
6 Health promotion / Canada
7 Psychologische Tests auf dem Netz
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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 14:21:12 -0500
From: Lisa McCormick <lisamcc@TSO.CIN.IX.NET>
Subject: Good News, Bad News - Patron use of online searchi
Hi, Colleagues,
Forgive me, it has been one of those days. I just left our MEDLINE
workstation where someone had done there own 'search' on diagnosis
and tretment of non-hodgkin's lymphoma, and out of 5 years of
MEDLINE, came up with 8 citations! This person did not ask for
assistance because he has familiarity with searching and doesn't need
help. Anyway... Soapbox time over.
I was scanning an article from October 1995 in a journal that MIS
sent us. Healthcare Informatics 12(10):36-38. The title: Looking it
up in Real Time by John Zapp, M.D. The GOOD NEWS: Klein et. al.'s
article on the effect of online literature searching is cited in the
text of the article. A little later in the article (the bad news) a
diabetes program coordinator wanted to find articles for a patient on
Metformin and decided to use the 950 Medline database this article is
talking about, and typed in Metformin and came up with two articles.
He conclusion: "Apparently Metformin is new to the United Stats..."
I just wouldn't want my physician, physician assistant, nurse
practitioner, or pharmacist making clinical decisions based upon a
similar searching of Medline. Also, on the same track, in the November
15, 1995 issue of JAMA on page 1508-09, Linda M. G. Katz, MLS from
Hahnemann University Schl of Med brought erroneous searching strategy
to the attention of the JAMA editor. Apparently a reviewer did a
search and retrieved very few citations on 'geriatric psychiatry' and
concluded, from his search, that a new journal on this topic was not
needed. Katz and Katz interpreted MeSH for the editor and the
reviewer. The editor showed the letter to the reviewer who
"declined to reply".
You get my point.
Frustrated in Cincinnati (and they think WE'RE behind the times),
Lisa McCormick
My Opinion Not my Employer's (The Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati)
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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 19:03:28 EST
From: Vislava Tylman <vtylman@MEDNET.MED.MIAMI.EDU>
Subject: Re: Good News, Bad News - Patron use of online searchi
You are not the only one (frustrated). We have stories like that
almost every day. Not all of them are "scary", but I will never
forget our "MD-expert in Medline" who was complaining about "our
MEDLINE". He made a presentation about AIDS and headache, and based
on his MEDLINE search he stated that there was no literature on the
topic. Somebody disagreed, somebody prooved that it was. My question
was "how did you search for the topic?, did you use explode? did you
try text word searching? His answer was "what is explode? how do you
search for TW?" He had enough time to look with me at the OVID screen
(with TextWord option highlighted), but not enough time to listen
about "exploding". We offer help and classes, we have a printed
manual, but most of our users feel that they can search without any
help, doesn't matter what is the topic and the purpose of the search.
Good for us, our students have to take a two-hour MEDLINE tutorial,
they at least learn the basics. Cheers, Vislava
vtylman@mednet.med.miami.edu
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Dear Colleagues,
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5555555555555555 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 07:18:29 EST From: "KAREN M. ZUNDEL, DIRECTOR HEALTH SE" <mckmedlib@SHRSYS.HSLC.ORG> Subject: Re: Healthcare Administration Resources on the net
An Oct. 16, 1995 MEDLIB message announced a Web site with more than 2 dozen links to health administration resources. Point your browser to: http://plainfield.bypass.com/~slarose/
The announcement was made by Steve Larose, editor Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Karen M. Zundel
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-- Eric Snyder - Ottawa, Canada | Internet Business Services Targeted Communication Mgt | Corporate Internet Strategy egs@TCM.com | WWW Home Page design & development http://www.tcm.com | Internet training for business & govt77777777777777 Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 12:53:22 EST From: Lucy Rowland <LROWLAND@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> Subject: Re: ? Psychological tests on the Internet
Try these 3 Web sites. I know that one of them has the Keirsy Psychological Assessment Test.
gopher://www.cc.utexas.edu:80/hGET%20/psychgrad/psychgrad.html
http://matia.stanford.edu/cogsci/misc.html
http://www.coil.com/~grohol/web.htm
All have pretty extensive lists of links
Lucy M. Rowland, MS, MLS Head, Science Collections and Branch Services University of Georgia Libraries Athens, GA 30602-7412 706-542-6643 FAX: 706-542-7907