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Middle Atlantic Region Featured Projects 2006
Back to National Medical Librarians Month pageUse of Evidence-Based Medicine in Morning Report
HSLS librarians are collaborating with physicians on the General Internal Medicine Service at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). They are attending daily Morning Report sessions, which include an attending physician, chief resident, and 2nd and 3rd year medical residents. These sessions are an important educational component of the internal medicine resident training program. Librarians are participating in a study to determine the methods used by residents to obtain answers to clinical questions, to improve the search skills of residents through the discussion of evidence during their four week rotation in morning report and to evaluate two different information sources, MEDLINE and Up-To-Date, in finding the most applicable answer to the clinical question.
Name of the institution: Health Sciences Library System (HSLS), University of Pittsburgh
Librarians involved:
Nancy Tannery, MLS
Charles Wessel, MLS
Ahlam Saleh, MD, MLS
Marketing SFX® with GET IT at the Weill Cornell Medical Library
The acquisition and implementation of Ex Libris™ SFX®, an OpenURL technology based system, provided an opportunity for Weill Cornell Medical Library (WCML) to develop and implement a creative, far-reaching promotional strategy. After implementation, testing, revisions and Library staff training, the Library director appointed an SFX Launch Committee which proposed an aggressive marketing campaign for the promotion and use of SFX® via the library’s customized icon, "GET IT." The campaign included teasers and buildups and culminated into a full day event, “GET IT and Go Day," focused on educating users in the utilization and benefits of SFX® technology. Several strategically timed approaches were used to reach and retain the attention of a variety of audiences: email, listserv and Web announcements, staff wore promotional buttons, announcement via screen savers on Library public workstations, information posters, and a GET IT mascot placed at the front of the Library.
On Nov 17, 2005, GET IT and Go Day, the Library offered demonstration tutorials with raffle prizes, giveaways, a reception with two cakes emblazoned with the GET IT logo, as well as a continuously looped Power Point presentation, informal demonstrations and individual searches conducted by Library staff from a workstation on the Library’s main floor. Marketing GET IT in novel and interesting ways to attract as many users as possible maximizes the Library’s investment in technology that supports teaching, research, and patient care activities.
Name of the institution: Weill Cornell Medical Library, Weill Medical College of Cornell
Name of project director:
Diana Delgado, Chair SFX Launch Committee
Key staff:
Loretta Merlo and Kevin Pain of SFX Launch Committee;
Kristine Alpi, helen-ann brown, Sherisse Brown, Anny Khoubesserian, Octavio Morales, Danita Norville-DeFreitas, Antonio Ramos, Carolyn Reid, Angela Reyes, Jennifer Rodriguez, Vergie Savage-Branch & Michael Wood
CLIP: Consumer Library Information Prescription
The Consumer Library Information Prescription (CLIP) program was an outreach initiative designed to enable hospitalized patients and the public to obtain reliable, up-to-date and authoritative consumer health information. An18-month grant from the National Library of Medicine and the NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region enabled the AH libraries to establish partnerships that provided high-quality health-related information to patients and consumers in the communities they serve CLIP allows patients, family members, and health care professionals to request medical information via a prescription (a hard copy ‘order’), through the library website, or by phoning the CLIP coordinator. The CLIP coordinator, a medical librarian, then “fills” the prescription and transmits the information to the requestor via email, fax, US mail, or by direct delivery to the patient’s bedside. Implementation of this project included outreach programs designed to teach the public about CLIP and how to search for trustworthy health information online, utilizing NLM consumer health databases such as MedlinePlus.gov, PubMed.gov and ClinicalTrials.gov. These programs were held at the AH hospitals, area public libraries, seniors’ groups, support groups, health fairs and patient education sessions. After completion of the grant, the program was continued and is now funded by Atlantic Health.
Name of Library: Atlantic Health (AH) Libraries
Librarians Involved:
Patricia Regenberg MLS, AHIP and Jeffrey Levine PhD, Co-Principal Investigators;
Martha Saj MLIS, CLIP Coordinator;
Victoria Sciuk MLS, AHIP, Web Librarian;
Mary K. Joyce MLS, AHIP and Juliette Ratner MLS, AHIP.
A Stroke in Time: Senior Citizen Access to Trusted Stroke Information
Two health care systems and a physician-based community organization in Northeastern Pennsylvania established a collaborative partnership to increase access to quality stroke information using Internet resources and blended educational instruction for a community of senior persons in a predominately rural area. The project included building an educational program to meet information needs, enhance health literacy, and improve senior persons' ability to partner with caregivers in improving stroke outcome in the community. A librarian-health care professional team presented the program at twenty-four senior centers and public libraries. The project incorporated the development of a web site (http://www.pahealthinfo.org) to house an online version of the educational program and resources. According to the evaluation survey, participants felt they would be able to identify ways to prevent a stroke, recognize a stroke, be able to identify steps to take when a stroke occurs, identify steps to recovery, and be able to find trusted stroke information on the Internet.
Name of Institution:
Geisinger Health System; Moses Taylor Hospital; Pennsylvania Rural Stroke Initiative
Name of Project Director:
Valerie A. Gross AHIP, Geisinger Health System
Key Staff:
Britain G. Roth AHIP, Geisinger Health System;
Linda Famiglio M.D., Pennsylvania Rural Stroke Initiative;
JoAnn Babish AHIP, Moses Taylor Hospital;
Vicki Frisino, Moses Taylor Hospital
Making a PROMIS and keeping it: Providing comprehensive literature search services to an NIH Roadmap Initiative
This project is an ongoing collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System and investigators from the Pittsburgh site of PROMIS (Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System), a five-year, multi-site research project funded through the NIH Roadmap Initiative. The specific aim of PROMIS is to develop new methods of assessing self-reported outcomes in patients with a range of chronic diseases. A key step for the PROMIS site located at our school of medicine was completion of comprehensive literature searches by librarians to identify currently available questionnaires used for assessing patient reports of emotional distress (e.g., depression, anxiety, anger). Librarians developed a formal protocol for conducting comprehensive literature searches. As a first step, librarians collected lists of subject headings for each domain of emotional distress, and for the concepts of measurement and self-report. PROMIS investigators reviewed lists of terms and voted to retain or reject each term. Librarians used this input during their final selection of search terms. Searches of three major databases (MEDLINE, PsycINFO, HaPI) yielded 6169 citations. From these citations, investigators identified 387 primary citations containing relevant assessment instruments. The appointment of one librarian as a co-investigator and biweekly teleconferences provided for regular communication with investigators throughout the search process. Both were major factors in this successful, ongoing collaboration between librarians and investigators.
Supported by the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, Grant U01 AR052155. More information about PROMIS is available at http://www.nihpromis.org.
Name of Institution:
University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System
Name of Project Directors:
Mary L. Klem, PhD, MLIS;
Ester M. Saghafi, MEd, MLS;
Rebecca A. Abromitis, MLS; in collaboration with the Pittsburgh PROMIS Research Site.
Last reviewed: 17 September 2007
Last updated: 02 October 2006
First published: 01 October 2006
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