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Isabel, A Clinical Decision Support System, Emily J. Vardell, Mary Moore Phd Feb 2012

Isabel, A Clinical Decision Support System, Emily J. Vardell, Mary Moore Phd

Mary Moore

A Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) is an interactive tool designed to assist clinicians in making decisions, such as determining a diagnosis. The Isabel Database is a CDSS featuring a clinical checklist and topic-specific knowledge components. This column contains an overview of the database, provides searching tips, and places Isabel within the context of the CDSS field.


Managing And Mining Full-Text With Quosa, Mary Moore Phd Feb 2012

Managing And Mining Full-Text With Quosa, Mary Moore Phd

Mary Moore

Managing and Mining Full-Text with QUOSA - Mary Moore, PhDPowerPoint presentation to teach the benefits of QUOSA for research, text mining and downloading and managing multiple full-text articles retrieved from PubMed, OVID, Scopus, and Google.


Using An Automated Knowledge Agent For Reference And Customer Service, Mary Moore Phd Feb 2012

Using An Automated Knowledge Agent For Reference And Customer Service, Mary Moore Phd

Mary Moore

Knowledge agents are software tools that sift through data to retrieve answers to questions. These agents may take many forms, including verbots, chatterbots, and intelligent agents. They have character and personality and reply to natural language inquiries. Agents “learn from their mistakes” and “grow smarter” when their programmers review failed interactions between the customer and the agent and then script correct responses.


Trends In Authorship Order In Biomedical Research Publications, Suzetta Burrows Mls, Mary Moore Phd Feb 2012

Trends In Authorship Order In Biomedical Research Publications, Suzetta Burrows Mls, Mary Moore Phd

Mary Moore

As research teams have grown larger, authorship lists of resulting publications have become longer. Organizations and journals have issued statements about ethical authorship, nature of contribution, and author responsibility, but author order is less frequently addressed. Unless the contribution of a co-author is specified, readers make their own assumptions about author contributions because practices on author order in the byline vary by discipline, journal, editor, publisher, scientific society, institution, country, and the authors themselves. Because contributions are often subject to misinterpretation and publications have become proof of scientific productivity and impact, it is increasingly important that authors themselves specify to …


An Introduction To Clinical Decision Support Systems, Mary Moore Phd, Kimberly A. Loper Feb 2012

An Introduction To Clinical Decision Support Systems, Mary Moore Phd, Kimberly A. Loper

Mary Moore

Library support of clinical decision-making ranges from passive (traditional library collections of books and journals) to highly active (professional services, such as clinical medical librarians, LATCH, and informationists). Support of mobile computing resources and subscriptions to services, such as UpToDate and DynaMed, moves libraries toward interactive resources to aid healthcare providers in their decisions about specific patient questions. Librarians seeking to add robust clinical decision support systems should partner with clinicians and medical educators to weigh usability, ability to integrate with electronic health records and other systems, accuracy, reliability, depth of knowledge base, and improvements to process and patient outcomes, …


Web Usability Testing With A Hispanic Medically Underserved Population, Mary Moore Phd, Randolph G. Bias, Katherine Prentice, Robin Fletcher, Terry Vaughn Feb 2012

Web Usability Testing With A Hispanic Medically Underserved Population, Mary Moore Phd, Randolph G. Bias, Katherine Prentice, Robin Fletcher, Terry Vaughn

Mary Moore

Skilled website developers value usability testing to assure user needs are met. When the target audience differs substantially from the developers, it becomes essential to tailor both design and evaluation methods. In this study, researchers carried out a multifaceted usability evaluation of a website (Healthy Texas) designed for Hispanic audiences with lower computer literacy and lower health literacy.


Keeping Current With Electronic Resources And Libraries, Mary Moore Phd Feb 2012

Keeping Current With Electronic Resources And Libraries, Mary Moore Phd

Mary Moore

Those seeking to understand current trends in serials and collection development often gather at established conferences such as the Charleston Conference and the North American Serials Interest Group. A relative newcomer, Electronic Resources & Libraries, brings together technical services personnel, public services personnel, Web developers, systems librarians, vendors, policy makers, and standards experts, forming lively communities of professionals working together to develop, deliver and evaluate eresources.


Libraries And Publishers Respond To Disaster With Groundbreaking Collaboration, Mary Moore Phd, Suzetta Burrows Mls, Maria Collins, Nancy Roderer Feb 2012

Libraries And Publishers Respond To Disaster With Groundbreaking Collaboration, Mary Moore Phd, Suzetta Burrows Mls, Maria Collins, Nancy Roderer

Mary Moore

The earthquake in Haiti prompted significant response from both health care workers and health sciences libraries. Individual libraries in the U.S. and elsewhere struggled to determine the best ways to support relief workers with health information resources and services. This column describes the Haiti earthquake and the response of health care workers, one organization’s experience in delivering services on the frontlines, the response of one library and its struggles to make information resources available, and the Emergency Access Initiative (EAI), an effective solution to offering information resources in times of disaster developed and implemented by the National Library of Medicine …


Part 1 Making Bibliographic Researchers More Efficient, Vedana Vaidhyanathan, Mary Moore Phd, Kimberly A. Loper, Joann Van Schaik, David Goolabsingh Feb 2012

Part 1 Making Bibliographic Researchers More Efficient, Vedana Vaidhyanathan, Mary Moore Phd, Kimberly A. Loper, Joann Van Schaik, David Goolabsingh

Mary Moore

Researcher-writers need integrated systems to help them increase productivity. These systems should enhance the intellectual aspects of writing such as analysis and synthesis of existing research, while lessening the burden of more routine, but still necessary duties, such as bibliographic editing. Although a robust, fully integrated system for researcher-writer support does not exist, new resources are moving closer to that goal. Third party programs that connect bibliographic search results to the full text PDFs of cited articles can save time and effort and result in discoveries that may not have been obvious using approaches and processes of the past. Questions …


Scival Experts: A Collaborative Tool, Emily J. Vardell, Tanya Feddern-Bekcan, Mary Moore Phd Feb 2012

Scival Experts: A Collaborative Tool, Emily J. Vardell, Tanya Feddern-Bekcan, Mary Moore Phd

Mary Moore

SciVal Experts is a resource for finding experts and fostering collaboration. The tool creates researcher profiles with automatically updated publication and grant information and faculty-inputted curriculum vitae, more fully capturing a researcher’s body of work. SciVal Experts indexes campus-based “experts” by research topic, allowing faculty to find potential research partners and mentors, furthering translational research opportunities and dissemination of knowledge.