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Collaborating With Public Librarians To Promote Emergency Preparedness And Safety Awareness, Gediminas Paulaitis, Emily J. Vardell, Jennifer Shipley Nov 2011

Collaborating With Public Librarians To Promote Emergency Preparedness And Safety Awareness, Gediminas Paulaitis, Emily J. Vardell, Jennifer Shipley

Faculty Research, Publications, and Presentations

The Louis Calder Memorial Library received an Express Community Day Award from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) to partner with the Miami-Dade County Public Library librarians to promote emergency preparedness and safety awareness. Named Safety Fair: Keep Your Family Safe - Emergency Preparedness at Home and Away, the events improved the public librarians’ knowledge of NN/LM resources, such as TOXNET, MedlinePlus®, ToxTown®, ToxMystery®, and WISER®, as well as University-created resources. A train-the-trainer program was also implemented for the public librarians.


Aamc Question Of The Year - Presentation, Mary Moore Phd Nov 2011

Aamc Question Of The Year - Presentation, Mary Moore Phd

Faculty Research, Publications, and Presentations

In November 2011 at the AAMC meeting, Dr. Kanter announced there had been over 120 responses to the question. Of those, 15 were selected for publication and an additional 15 appear in the online version of the journal. Seven responses were selected for presentation at the AAMC meeting in Denver. Dr. Moore shares her AAMC QOTY presentation


Pillbox: A Solid Dosage Medication Identification Tool, Emily J. Vardell, David Goolabsingh, Vedana Vaidhyanathan Oct 2011

Pillbox: A Solid Dosage Medication Identification Tool, Emily J. Vardell, David Goolabsingh, Vedana Vaidhyanathan

Faculty Research, Publications, and Presentations

Pillbox is a tool that can be used to rapidly identify solid dosage medications. The database, created and maintained by the National Library of Medicine with the support of the Food and Drug Administration, seeks to enhance patient safety through the identification of solid dosage medication. Users enter physical characteristics of a medication, possible matches are provided, and links to additional resources are offered. A comparison with comparable resources was conducted and future enhancements to Pillbox are discussed.


Managing And Mining Full-Text With Quosa, Mary Moore Phd Aug 2011

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

Faculty Research, Publications, and Presentations

Managing and Mining Full-Text with QUOSA - Mary Moore, PhD
PowerPoint 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.


Keeping Current With Electronic Resources And Libraries, Mary Moore Phd Jan 2011

Keeping Current With Electronic Resources And Libraries, Mary Moore Phd

Faculty Research, Publications, and Presentations

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.


Isabel, A Clinical Decision Support System, Emily J. Vardell, Mary Moore Phd Jan 2011

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

Faculty Research, Publications, and Presentations

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.


An Introduction To Clinical Decision Support Systems, Mary Moore Phd, Kimberly A. Loper Jan 2011

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

Faculty Research, Publications, and Presentations

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, …


Scival Experts: A Collaborative Tool, Emily J. Vardell, Tanya Feddern-Bekcan, Mary Moore Phd Jan 2011

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

Faculty Research, Publications, and Presentations

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.


Libraries And Publishers Respond To Disaster With Groundbreaking Collaboration, Mary Moore Phd, Suzetta Burrows Mls, Maria Collins, Nancy Roderer Jan 2011

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

Faculty Research, Publications, and Presentations

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 …


Trends In Authorship Order In Biomedical Research Publications, Suzetta Burrows Mls, Mary Moore Phd Jan 2011

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

Faculty Research, Publications, and Presentations

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 …


Research Scholarly Activity Program - Effective Presentation Techniques, Mary Moore Phd Jan 2011

Research Scholarly Activity Program - Effective Presentation Techniques, Mary Moore Phd

Faculty Research, Publications, and Presentations

This PowerPoint is from a lecture for the Miller School of Medicine's Resident Scholarly Activity Program for medical residents. The lecture is used to teach residents about effective presentation techniques for case reports, journal clubs, research poster presentations, and professional papers. This set is intended for medical residents who have attended the session and who have requested handouts of the slides. The PowerPoint is not designed to stand alone.