Posters - presentation guidelines
Poster
Presentations - Abstracts and Author Biographies
1.
Improving the quality of clinical trials reported in the medical literature – guidance from library/information professionals?
Olwen Beaven
- Abstract
2. Using the BMJ Learning website to deliver health information literacy education to UK healthcare professionals
Olwen Beaven
- Abstract
3. Competency culture: an innovative string of pearls for delivering health information to nurses
Lisa Demczuk , Christine Shaw-Daigle, Analyn Cohen Baker, Melissa Raynard
- Abstract
4. Promoting evidence-based public health decision making
Maureen Dobbins
- Abstract
5. Extreme library makeover: CHEER at Bracken Health Sciences Library, Queen's University
Paola Durando, Gillian Griffith, Sandra Halliday, Suzanne Maranda, Amanda Ross-White, Anne Smithers, Matthew Thomas, Brett Waytuck, Sarah Wickett
- Abstract
6. Searching the pharmacology literature: an electronic tutorial to meet curricular objectives
Lorie Kloda
- Abstract
7. CONNECT: building a Canadian HIV/AIDS information gateway
Véronique Moal, Tom Richardson
- Abstract
8.
A partnership in teaching evidence-based medicine (EBM) to medicine residents
Andrea Ryce, Sherry Dodson
- Abstract
9. Using limits in databases containing both indexed and un-indexed records: ensuring the retrieval of all potentially relevant information
Kaitryn Campbell, Janet Joyce, Shaila Mensinkai, Andra Morrison, Becky Skidmore
- Abstract
10.
A critical appraisal tool for library and information research
Lindsay Glynn
- Abstract
11. Beyond current awareness: enhancing the delivery of health information with the use of RSS
feeds
Andrea Freeman, Dean Giustini
- Abstract
12. Integrative Physicians’ Needs for a Cancer Information Retrieval System at North American Cancer Care Facilities
Debbie Monkman, Bethany Becker
- Abstract
13. Podcasting: the future of staying current in medicine?
Jeremiah Saunders, Dean Giustini
- Abstract
14. Sharing the cost : Australian and Canadian initiatives
Vivian Stieda, Marijana Bacic
- Abstract
15.
Consumer Health Information Providers Interest Group: (CHIPIG)
Michelle M. Arbuckle, Kimberley Meighan
- Abstract
1. Improving the quality of clinical trials reported in the medical literature – guidance from library/information professionals?
Olwen Beaven, BMJ Knowledge, BMJ Publishing Group Limited, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London. WC1H 9JR. U.K. Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 6083,
obeaven@bmjgroup.com
Introduction
There is a movement to improve the value of clinical trials, by ensuring that systematic reviews are done prior to any research, to demonstrate the need for the trial and then again on completion, to incorporate the new trial results.
It has been suggested, that journals should only publish clinical trials that undertake this procedure, but is it realistic for journals to insist on this level of work? Would any trialists be able to deliver this, or would the time and costs be too prohibitive?
We wanted to try to devise a more practical solution, which would seek to improve the quality of clinical trials and how they are reported, but also be feasible and realistically achievable.
Methods
We are currently assessing the general quality of RCTs published in the BMJ, with regard to the quality of reporting of any literature reviews or other searches that are undertaken. We will then look at how this might be improved, considering both reporting and minimum requirements for literature searching. We will then try to devise guidelines for authors that would address the issue in more depth, than currently available from the
BMJ.
Results
As this is a project in progress, we have no confirmed data to date. However, we expect to have at least preliminary, if not final, results available by May 2006. We hope to have some detailed guidance for authors which we can present to the BMJ, for their consideration, to help address this quality issue.
Presenter/Author
Olwen Beaven is an Information Specialist working for the BMJ Publishing Group in London, UK. She has been involved in the UK evidence-based healthcare field for a number of years, having previously worked for the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and the Cochrane Cystic Fibrosis and Genetic Disorders Group.
2. Using the BMJ Learning website to deliver health information literacy education to UK healthcare professionals
Olwen
Beaven, BMJ Knowledge, BMJ Publishing Group Limited, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London. WC1H 9JR. U.K. Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 6083,
obeaven@bmjgroup.com
Introduction
BMJ Learning is a new product from the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. It is designed as a support tool for UK healthcare professionals (primarily doctors, at present) to help them with their learning requirements. It is a web based product, which provides a variety of intensive learning modules which users complete online, which cover therapeutic issues and patient care, but also other areas, such as staff, or practice management. We wanted to see if this kind of online resource could be used to deliver general training relating to health information. We were interested in discerning the ease of creating learning modules and to assess if they could provide useful knowledge to a diverse audience, with varying access to IT, libraries and information resources.
Methods
We are in the process of evaluating the general library/information training needs of healthcare professionals in the UK and of creating a number of learning modules on various topics, suitable for the BMJ Learning website. We will then assess the learning modules in-house and (if passed for publication) when they are on the BMJ Learning website itself.
Results
As this is a project in progress, we have no confirmed data to date. However, we expect to have at least preliminary, if not final, results available by May 2006. We hope to be able to provide an insight into the value of online educational portals for information professionals, in improving health information literacy amongst healthcare professionals.
Presenter/Author
Olwen Beaven is an Information Specialist working for the BMJ Publishing Group in London, UK. She has been involved in the UK evidence-based healthcare field for a number of years, having previously worked for the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and the Cochrane Cystic Fibrosis and Genetic Disorders Group.
3. Competency culture: an innovative string of pearls for delivering health information to nurses
Lisa Demczuk, Grace Hospital Library, University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries, Lisa_Demczuk@Umanitoba.ca, Tel: (204) 837-0127
Christine Shaw-Daigle, Victoria General Hospital Library, University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries, Christine_Shaw-Daigle@Umanitoba.ca, Tel: (204) 477-3284
Analyn Cohen Baker, Seven Oaks General Hospital Library University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries, Analyn_Baker@Umanitoba.ca, Tel: (204) 632-3107
Melissa Raynard, Concordia Hospital Library, University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries,
raynardm@ms.umanitoba.ca, Tel: (204) 661-7440
Objective
To support Manitoba nurses in their new professional requirement to maintain competency.
Setting
The College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba (CRNM) requires that licensed, practicing nurses in the province document their continuing competency on an annual basis. In response to this requirement, the community hospital libraries, affiliated with the University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries, developed several onsite and virtual library programs and services.
Audience
The target group for these new initiatives is nurses working within the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority and Winnipeg community hospitals.
Program
The University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries (UMHSL) developed online resource guides, information packages and a newsletter to support the continuing competency goals of the CRNM and Manitoba nurses.
Webliographies are topic specific, online resource guides including links to books, journal articles, ejournals and websites. They are updated annually and are accessible via the UMHSL website.
Competency Collection: Information Pathfinders are customized information packages designed for nurses interested in a particular health care issue. Print packages of information are readily available on units throughout the health care facilities.
Info-RN, is an electronic newsletter which highlights nursing resources and library services; it is published and distributed three times per year.
Conclusion
The UMHSL identified the unique information needs of nurses in the community hospitals. To address this need, the UMHSL developed creative and innovative ways to deliver evidence-based information directly to nurses at the unit level.
Presenters/Authors
Lisa Demczuk is the hospital librarian for the Grace Hospital Library, University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries. Lisa provides reference, training and literature search searches to the clinical staff of the Grace Hospital, students, consumers and the WRHA staff of St. James/Assiniboia and Assiniboine-South.
Christine Shaw-Daigle is the hospital librarian for the Victoria General Hospital Library, University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries. Christine manages the VGH library offering services to staff, students, consumers and the WRHA staff of south Winnipeg. She is the current editor of Info-RN, an online newsletter for Manitoba nurses and the President of the Manitoba Association of Health Information Providers.
Analyn Cohen Baker is the hospital librarian for the Seven Oaks General Hospital Library, University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries. Analyn works directly with the SOGH clinical staff providing reference, training and literature search services. She also provides library support to the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority staff in Seven Oaks/Inkster community offices. Analyn is well suited to this position as she successfully combined her nursing knowledge – she is former RN - with her library expertise.
Melissa Raynard is the hospital librarian for the Concordia Hospital Library, University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries. Melissa provides reference, training and literature search services to the staff of the Concordia Hospital as well as Winnipeg Regional Health Authority staff in the Transcona and River East community areas.
4. Promoting evidence-based public health decision making
Maureen Dobbins, RN,PhD, Associate Professor, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5,
dobbinsm@mcmaster.ca, Tel: (905)
525-9140, x22481, Fax: 905-524-2199
Objective
Research has determined that factors such as key stakeholders; organizational culture; individual decision-making style; the research evidence itself and the importance of the decision to the goals of the organization, significantly influence the use of research evidence. Activities are underway in Canada to assist public health decision makers to become aware of, accept and incorporate research evidence into policy and program decisions.
Methods
A program of research among public health decision makers has been ongoing since 1995. The studies have sought to a) identify barriers to research utilization among decision makers; b) identify factors that facilitate the use of research evidence for program decision making; c) understand decision makers' information needs and preferences; and d) evaluate the effectiveness of knowledge transfer strategies.
Results
The findings highlight the importance of factors of the organization, environment, individual and the innovation (research evidence), to the use of research evidence in decision making. Culture and decision making style were found to be particularly important, along with perceived skill to critically appraise research evidence and social environments supportive of research evidence. Decision makers clearly articulated their information needs with respect to content, format and method of delivery.
Discussion
The findings have been instrumental in the development of a national public health knowledge transfer strategy. The investigators contend that consultation with potential users of research evidence is crucial to ensure the conduct of relevant and timely research as well as the development of an effective knowledge transfer strategy.
Presenter/Author
Maureen Dobbins is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at McMaster University and is a Career Scientist with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. She also has an appointment as a Public Health Associate with the City of Hamilton, Social and Public Health Services and is a member of the Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing. Her research interests include knowledge transfer and uptake, evidence-based decision making, organizational culture, outcomes research, health economics, and health services delivery.
5. Extreme library makeover: CHEER at Bracken Health Sciences Library, Queen's University
Paola Durando, Bracken Health Sciences Library, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON,
paola.durando@queensu.ca, Tel:
(613) 533-6000 x74733
Fax: 613-533-6892
Gillian Griffith, Bracken Health Sciences Library, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Email:
gillian.griffith@queensu.ca, Tel:
(613) 533-6000 x74526, Fax: 613-533-6892
Sandra Halliday, Bracken Health Sciences Library, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Email:
halliday@post.queensu.ca, Tel:
(613) 533-6000 x77568, Fax: 613-533-6892
Suzanne Maranda, Bracken Health Sciences Library, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Email:
marandas@post.queensu.ca, Tel:
(613) 533-6000 x74522, Fax: 613-533-6892
Amanda Ross-White, Bracken Health Sciences Library, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Email:
amanda.ross-white@queensu.ca,
Tel: (613) 533-6000 x78136, Fax: 613-533-6892
Anne Smithers, Bracken Health Sciences Library, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON,
Email: smithers@post.queensu.ca, Tel:
(613) 533-6000 x74530, Fax: 613-533-6892
Matthew Thomas, Bracken Health Sciences Library, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON,
Email: thomasma@post.queensu.ca, Tel:
(613) 533-6000 x75284, Fax: 613-533-6892
Brett Waytuck, Bracken Health Sciences Library, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Email:
brett.waytuck@queensu.ca, Tel:
(613) 533-6000 x77694, Fax: 613-533-6892
Sarah Wickett, Bracken Health Sciences Library, Queen’s University, Kingson, ON, Email:
sarah.wickett@queensu.ca, Tel:
(613) 533-6000 x77078, Fax: 613-533-6892
Opened in 1978, the Bracken Health Sciences Library facility was straining in recent years to effectively support emerging technologies and an increasing emphasis on collaborative learning. Planning began in Spring 2003 for $1.8 M renovation of the Library’s main level.
A participatory planning model was adopted for the building program, which became known as CHEER (Centre for Health Electronic Education Resources). Once the Core Planning Committee was struck, several staff teams were formed: Technology, Instruction and Reference, Client Spaces, Access Services, and Transition. These teams articulated building program outcomes, which were interpreted by architects Griffiths Rankin Cook and design firm Gansen Lindsay. The construction phase lasted six months, during which all print collections, staff areas and user services excepting Access Services were relocated to temporary locations on the library’s lower level.
UNVEILED in September 2005, the new learning environment offers flexible spaces, comfort, accessibility, sophistication and open sightlines. A variety of technical solutions include: a 24-seat laptop-equipped electronic laboratory with a smartboard and plasma screens; thin client express kiosks; circulating laptops, wireless access throughout; and group study rooms that are booked using an online self-serve system. The e-lab is used by librarians to teach information literacy and by faculty members to integrate multimedia resources into their curricula. A state of the art videoconferencing facility supports the Faculty of Health Sciences’ distributed learning model.
CHEER will assume a pivotal role in the realization of the health informatics strategic direction of the Faculty of Health Sciences.
Presenters/Authors
Paola Durando is a Public Services Librarian and Leader of the Queen’s University Library Electronic Gateway Functional Team. She served on the Client Spaces and Instruction & Reference teams for Bracken’s renovation program. “The new interactive learning space has transformed how we support and teach students and faculty.”
Gillian Griffith is a Clinical Outreach Services Librarian whose time is shared between academic public services and providing customized library services to Bracken’s community health care partners in Southeastern Ontario. She served on the Instruction and Reference team for the CHEER renovations. “The state-of-the-art facility will support our distance learning initiatives.”
Sandra Halliday is a Public Services Librarian and Leader of the Queen’s University Access Services Functional Team. She served on the Circulation Space and Instruction & Reference teams during Bracken’s renovation. “The ‘library as place’ is an important theme and CHEER has contributed to the increased use of Bracken Library.”
Library Director Suzanne Maranda worked with architects, designers and staff teams from concept design through to final construction details. “I am proud of the staff members’ participation, and the outcome is exactly what I was hoping for: staff and users happy with the new look and feel of the library.”
Amanda Ross-White is a Clinical Outreach Services Librarian at Bracken Health Sciences Library. She served on the Instruction and Reference team for the CHEER renovations. “With the renovations, we have space to consult with users one-on-one, to hold small and medium sized classes, and to interact in a new way.”
Anne Smithers is the Head of Technical & Document Services. She served on both the Planning and Client Spaces teams during Bracken’s renovation. “The response to CHEER from our students and faculty has been gratifying, and we are excited about the new opportunities for user services.”
Matthew Thomas is a Public Services Librarian supporting Bracken’s new IM reference service, maintaining web resources, assisting with the Online Room Booking System, and is serving on the Virtual Reference Working Group. “The CHEER space, technology and services are doing a lot to help the library and help our customers.”
Brett Waytuck is Head, Public Services and Education, and co-ordinates Bracken’s curriculum integrated information literacy programme. He served on both the CHEER Information & Reference and Transition Teams. “CHEER represents our commitment to individual, team and virtual services – in house, across campus and region-wide.”
Sarah Wickett is Health Informatics Librarian. Sarah ensures assistance with courseware and equipment used in CHEER. She also works to promote CHEER as an important learning facility in the Faculty of Health Sciences. “I can’t wait to see the evolution of new and innovative uses for CHEER in the future!”
6. Searching the pharmacology literature: an electronic tutorial to meet curricular objectives
Lorie Kloda, MLIS, Instructional Technology Librarian, Life Sciences Library, McGill University, 3655 Promenade Sir-William-Osler, Montreal, QC H3G 1Y6,
lorie.kloda@mcgill.ca, (514) 398-4475 ext. 09528
Program Objective
The goal of the online tutorial Searching the Pharmacology Literature is to provide the student with the information and resources necessary to support self-directed learning.
Setting
McGill University’s undergraduate medical program is currently undergoing changes in the curriculum. This year, the library offered to partner with a medical illustrator and web designer to replace a lecture with an online tutorial.
Participants
Over 180 medical and dental students enrolled in the program were invited to use the tutorial to learn, review concepts, and support their assignment.
Program
The tutorial is available via the medical school’s electronic curriculum and freely on the web:
http://mmiweb.mmi.mcgill.ca/dev/LorieKLODA/HealthLib-Instruction.htm. The tutorial was launched in the fall term during the pharmacology course. The content is designed to assist the student in locating, retrieving, evaluating, and using information to complete a written assignment and for future research and practice.
Results
A feedback questionnaire provides information for the instructional designers about the content and design of the online tutorial. Results from multiple choice questions used on the student’s midterm examination in this and previous years will be compared to assess students’ understanding and synthesis of the objectives.
Conclusion
The tutorial may be an effective method of delivering content that meets some of the information literacy objectives for medical education. Improvements and the addition of more interactive components to the tutorial are being considered. The tutorial can easily be customized to be used with different user groups (e.g. nursing students, residents) both at McGill and at other institutions.
Presenter/Author
Lorie Kloda is a librarian at the McGill Life Sciences Library where she coordinates information literacy instruction in the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry. Lorie is also involved in projects promoting health literacy for consumers. Her other interests include the teaching of evidence-based healthcare and research on academic integrity.
7. CONNECT: building a Canadian HIV/AIDS information gateway
Véronique Moal, MLIS, PARC Library, AIDS Vancouver, 1107 Seymour St., Vancouver BC V6B 5S8,
veroniquem@aidsvancouver.org,
Tel: (604) 893-2248, Fax: 604-893-2257
Tom Richardson, MLIS, Library Services Coordinator / Coordonnateur, Services de bibliothèque, Canadian HIV/AIDS Information Centre, 400-1565 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 8R1,
trichardson@cpha.ca
Many voluntary sector organizations in Canada have excellent, specialized collections that are often overlooked or underutilized by the health library community and the broader public. The CONNECT web site is designed to boost the profile and use of several valuable collections. It draws together the collections of 5 major HIV/AIDS organizations in Canada:
• AIDS Vancouver
• AIDS Committee of Toronto
• Canadian HIV/AIDS Information Centre
• Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
• Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
Together, we have an interesting collection of monographs, periodicals, government documents, grey literature, graphic materials, and multimedia dating back to the beginning of the epidemic in Canada. The poster will highlight the history of the CONNECT project, features of the web site and database, key activities and lessons learned, and plans for the future. The poster should be of interest to those concerned about the community and federal response to HIV/AIDS in Canada, and those who wish to learn more about the experience of building a union catalogue, web site, and jointly delivered services.
Presenters/Authors
Véronique Moal has been the librarian at AIDS Vancouver since July 2005. Previously, she managed special libraries in Haiti (Pan American Health Organization) and Montreal (Energy Board of Quebec). She also worked on the design of the Metamap in conjunction with James Turner at the School of Librarianship and Information Science of the University of Montreal.
Tom Richardson is Library Services Coordinator at the Canadian HIV/AIDS Information Centre and Canadian Hepatitis C Information Centre, programs of the Canadian Public Health Association. He has been in this position since 2003, and previously worked in adolescent health, in addition to running his own web consulting business.
8. A partnership in teaching evidence-based medicine (EBM) to medicine residents
Andrea Ryce MLIS, Resource Sharing/Network Coordinator, NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region, University of Washington, Box 357155, Seattle, WA 98195-7155,
rycea@u.washington.edu, Tel: (206)
221-3489, Fax: 206-543-2469
Sherry Dodson MLS, Clinical Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, University of Washington, Box 357155, Seattle, WA 98195,
sdodson@u.washington.edu, Tel:
(206) 543-7493, Fax: 206-543-8066
Introduction
The course introduces evidence-based medicine (EBM) principles and effective searching methods to first-year medicine residents. Through a combination of lectures and interactive methods, the residents learn to apply EBM to clinical encounters, as well as learn how to teach EBM to their medical students. A course website allows the residency program to share and update the critically appraised topics (CATs) with embedded searches.
Methods
The residents attend one rotation of an eight-week EBM course for a total of twenty-four hours instruction led by faculty, chief residents, and librarians. Based on patient care questions in their clinics, the residents submit clinical questions on themes of therapy, prognosis, diagnosis, or harm for further exploration in class. Library databases and resources are searched for relevant articles, are then shared with the group, along with a discussion of search strategies and suitable indexing terms to use. The final product is a CAT on a clinical subject of practical use in clinical rotations. After completion of the course, each resident completes a post-test to assess learning outcomes.
Results
In the first 4 months of this program, residents who stated they were comfortable using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to search PubMed increased from 20% to 93%. Qualitative comments from participants indicated that the focus on both literature searches and critical appraisal was beneficial and favorable toward limiting time investment outside of the class. Participants were enthused to use resources of which they were not previously aware and found the presence of health sciences librarians highly useful.
Presenters/Authors
Andrea Ryce is the Resource Sharing/Network Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest Regional Medical Library, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, located at the University of Washington. Previous to this position, she completed a two-year post-graduate fellowship with the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Sherry Dodson is the clinical medical librarian at the University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries. She has attended Morning Report with UW Medical Center residents for the last 15 years, as well as working with UWMC nurses, clinics, and patient educators.
9. Using limits in databases containing both indexed and un-indexed records: ensuring the retrieval of all potentially relevant information
Kaitryn Campbell, BAH, BEd, MLIS, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in
Health (CADTH), 865 Carling Ave., Suite 600, Ottawa, ON K1S 5S8, kaitrync@cadth.ca, Tel: (613) 226-2553 ext. 284, Fax:613-226-5392
Janet Joyce, MLS, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), janetj@cadth.ca, Tel: (613) 226-2553 ext. 229
Shaila Mensinkai, MA, BEd, MLIS, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in
Health (CADTH), shailam@cadth.ca, Tel: (613) 226-2553 ext. 254
Andra Morrison, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), andram@cadth.ca,
Tel: (613) 226-2553 ext. 271
Becky Skidmore, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), beckys@cadth.ca,
Tel: (613) 226-2553 ext. 228
Objective
Locating the most up-to-date information is of vital importance to Information Specialists at
CADTH. In order to ensure retrieval of current but frequently un-indexed records when searching bibliographic databases, keywords are used in conjunction with controlled vocabulary. However, using commonly applied limits in databases containing both indexed and un-indexed records will inadvertently eliminate the un-indexed records from search results. We highlight the implications of employing the human limit in the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed and DIALOG’s MEDLINE® and describe the process we developed to ensure that no potentially relevant information is lost.
Methods
We analyzed and compiled the record status markers in un-indexed records from both database providers. Using the field-specific terms associated with in-process records, we developed filters that would allow us to isolate these records when searching either PubMed or MEDLINE®. The resulting records were then ORed with records to which limits had been applied.
Results
The application of the ‘in-process filter’ resulted in the retrieval of additional relevant records which would not otherwise have been retrieved. Further use of these filters in other searching has resulted in the retrieval of many potentially relevant un-indexed records.
Discussion
Combining our ‘in-process filters’ with relevant search terms, prior to imposing limits, ensures that all pertinent
PubMed/MEDLINE® records are retrieved. Such records are of pivotal importance to
CADTH’s researchers in order to ensure that technology assessments are comprehensive, and are of significance to many other library users in the health sciences community.
Presenters/Authors
Kaitryn Campbell is an Information Specialist for the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) directorate at
CADTH. She graduated from the University of Western Ontario’s MLIS programme in 2001. Prior to
CADTH, Kaitryn taught English in Japan and Canada, and was employed as a Medical Librarian at The Ottawa Hospital.
Janet Joyce is Director of Information Services for CADTH, an independent, not-for-profit government-funded agency consisting of three directorates (Health Technology Assessment, Common Drug Review, and the Canadian Optimal Medication Prescribing and Utilization Service). Janet has served as CCHFA-CHLA/ABSC liaison and as a member of the Task Force on Standards for Library & Information Services in Canadian Healthcare Facilities.
Shaila Mensinkai is an Information Specialist at CADTH. An experienced librarian, Shaila has held many executive positions in provincial and national associations. She has written and spoken on a variety of health library topics throughout her career.
Andra Morrison is an Information Specialist at CADTH. She became an accredited librarian in 1994 and has since worked in a variety of IS related fields including health, engineering, education, media and finance.
Becky Skidmore is an Information Specialist at CADTH where her primary focus is database development and research support. She currently chairs the Information Resources Subgroup of HTA International. Becky has worked in various traditional and non-traditional areas, including five years as a CIDA consultant for a forestry project in Asia.
10.
A critical appraisal tool for library and information research
Lindsay Glynn, Health Sciences Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland , St. John's, NL Canada A1B 3V6,
lglynn@mun.ca, (709)
777-6026
Introduction
One of the most essential components of EBL, critical appraisal, has not been fully established within the library literature. This paper outlines and describes a thorough critical appraisal tool and process that can be applied to library and information research in an evidence based setting.
Project Outline
Five previously validated critical appraisal models from medicine, nursing, education, and librarianship were retrieved. These models provided a sound basis upon which to create an EBL tool in combination with the author’s existing knowledge, experience and education. The tool was distributed to colleagues for critique and comment, then presented at a Research Fair at Memorial University of Newfoundland where attendees from various centers and institutions, who had not previously seen the tool, applied the model to a research study. Final revisions were made following the presentation. The final version includes a critical appraisal checklist and calculations for validity. The checklist questions have been grouped under the four main categories of a research study: population, data collection, study design, and results.
Conclusion
This tool is intended to provide a thorough, generic list of questions that one would ask when attempting to determine the validity, applicability and appropriateness of a study. . Becoming familiar with this critical appraisal tool and its applications will allow library and information professionals to develop the skills necessary to read and write papers. As critical appraisal becomes more mainstream, it has the potential to fundamentally change how we approach research in our profession.
Presenter/Author
Lindsay Glynn is Instruction Coordinator at the Health Sciences Library at Memorial University where she has successfully integrated information literacy and evaluation assignments into the curriculum in Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing. She is co-founder and Associate Editor of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice and is currently completing a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Epidemiology.
11.
Beyond current awareness: enhancing the delivery of health information with the use of RSS
feeds
Andrea Freeman, MLIS candidate, 308-955 Thurlow St., Vancouver, B.C. V6E 1W5, andreamfreeman@gmail.com,
(604) 802-3231
Dean Giustini, UBC Biomedical Branch Librarian, Vancouver Hospital – Heather Pavilion, 700 W. 10th Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 1L5,
dean.giustini@ubc.ca, (604) 875-4505
Background
Staying current with shifts in evidence-based practice (EBP) is a constant challenge for busy health professionals. However, current awareness services that use RSS feeds and blog technologies to supplement traditional SDI tools can help professionals keep up on trends. These dynamic tools "push" content to patrons as frequently as possible from a number of important journals (ie. Nature), websites (ie. Health Canada) and databases (ie. PubMed).
Objective
This poster explores the use of RSS technologies to deliver timely, evidence-based literature to health professionals.
Methods
A selection of useful RSS feeds in health - ie. Access Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine and Canadian news outlets - are discussed. Several tools that use RSS feeds and send results to PDAs, cell Tels and other handhelds are reviewed.
Results
The teaching and promotion of RSS technologies by health librarians seems increasingly critical for certain tech-savvy users. While delivering current medical information and updates, RSS also enhances health librarians' profiles within organizations.
Conclusion
The use of RSS feeds move health libraries beyond the confines of static reference activity to the targeted delivery of dynamic content for evidence-based practitioners.
Presenter/Author
Andrea Freeman is currently a graduate student in the MLIS programme at UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies. She works as a student reference librarian at the Biomedical Branch library and as database manager for a research team in paediatric palliative care at the Children and Women’s Health Centre.
Dean Giustini is a reference librarian at the UBC biomedical branch library at Vancouver General Hospital, is involved in the evidence-based themes in medicine, co-teaches the health librarianship course at SLAIS and writes the UBC Google Scholar blog <weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/>. He is co-chair of the CHLA/ABSC 2006 program committee.
12.
Integrative Physicians’ Needs for a Cancer Information Retrieval System at North American Cancer Care Facilities
Debbie Monkman, MLS, BSc, Consultant/Contractor, Centre for Integrated Healing,
#200 - 1330 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6H 4A6, dmonkman@yahoo.com, (604)
734-7125
Bethany Becker, MJ, BA, Consultant/Contractor, Centre for Integrated Healing,
#200 - 1330 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6H 4A6, bbecker@telus.net, (604)
734-7125
Purpose
Physicians providing integrative care (complementary and conventional medicine) to cancer patients at the Vancouver-based Centre for Integrated Healing (CIH) wanted to know how they could better meet their needs for evidence-based research information to improve patient care.
Setting
CIH, a non-profit organization, provides integrative cancer care to patients and their families, conducts research and offers education.
Method
First, we conducted an environmental scan of approaches to information management at seven leading North American integrative cancer centers. Second, we assessed physician and associated practitioner information needs. Third, we reviewed 15 bibliographic databases’ coverage of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and cancer randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Based on our findings, we presented options for the people, processes and technology required to meet CIH’s needs.
Results
Wide variation in information practices was found at other integrative cancer centers. CIH physicians reported a high need for RCTs, while associated practitioners valued practice-based research and felt they were able to meet their needs. Together, PubMed and Embase provided the best coverage of CAM and cancer RCTs; the CAM subset of PubMed yielded poor results with only 27% of citations considered relevant by a physician.
Discussion
The rich experiential responses from integrative cancer centers illuminate findings from the literature that the CAM knowledge base is still difficult to access due to poor indexing, terminology complexities, and limited or inconclusive RCTs. Our simple, custom solution highlights the necessity for human intervention and the value of the clinical librarian.
Presenters/Authors
Debbie Monkman is a consultant/contractor with 16 years’ experience working in health care library and information services. She has extensive experience in the complementary medicine (CAM) arena as an information professional as well as a CAM consumer and practitioner.
Bethany Becker is a complementary medicine (CAM) information specialist and consultant with 16 years’ experience as a multi-faceted communications professional. She is a skilled researcher with in-depth knowledge of CAM both from professional and experiential perspectives.
13.
Podcasting: the future of staying current in medicine?
Jeremiah Saunders, 3451 West 16th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6R 3B9, Tel: (604)
738-3361, jsaunder25@hotmail.com
Dean Giustini, UBC Biomedical Branch Librarian, Vancouver Hospital – Heather Pavilion, 700 W. 10th Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 1L5,
dean.giustini@ubc.ca, (604) 875-4505
Introduction
Is podcasting just another over-hyped technology or will it develop into a permanent aspect of the Web? Also known as audio-blogging or blog-casting, podcasting is a combination of the words "broadcasting" and "iPod". Health professionals - and librarians - are beginning to educate themselves about podcasting and its applications in medicine.
Purpose
This session will provide an overview regarding: 1) the rise of audio & video (vodcasting) to disseminate information, 2) the basics of computer, technical and software requirements for podcasting; 3) searching and browsing the Web for podcasts; and, 4) how audio and video RSS feeds over the Web can be used to catch dynamic content as it becomes available, around the world.
Discussion
Podcasting has the potential to broadcast lectures, continuing medical education (CME) anywhere, anytime and to assist users in scanning the literature via handhelds. Will medical students and health professionals listen to (rather than read) new research in the future via digital media players (iPods)? How will trends in pod- and vodcasting affect patients and consumers?
Conclusion
Podcasting is a portable, handheld technology accessible by users anytime, anywhere. Its rise in popularity is likely to continue as society moves to flexible, distributed audio- and video-based information sources. Despite instability with downloads, podcasting is an information technology with enormous potential and should be seriously evaluated by health librarians.
Presenters/Authors
Jeremiah Saunders is an MLIS candidate at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), University of British Columbia. He has a BA in political science from Okanagan University College, and is a volunteer with the Canadian Diabetes Association. He has an interest in helping those affected by diabetes.
Dean Giustini is a reference librarian at the UBC biomedical branch library at Vancouver General Hospital, is involved in the evidence-based themes in medicine, co-teaches the health librarianship course at SLAIS and writes the UBC Google Scholar blog <weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/>. He is co-chair of the CHLA/ABSC 2006 program committee.
14.
Sharing the cost : Australian and Canadian initiatives
Vivian Stieda, MLS, Health Knowledge Network, 1494 Health Sciences Centre, 3330 Hospital Drive W, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1,
vstieda@ucalgary.ca, Tel: (403)
220-8250, Fax: 403-282-7992
Marijana Bacic, B.A., Grad. Dip. Lib., M. App. Sc. (Library & Information Management), AALIA, Deputy Librarian, Southern Health Libraries, Clayton, Victoria, Australia 3168, Tel: 61 3 9594 2604, Fax: 61 3 9594 6123, marijana.bacic@southernhealth.org.au
Introduction
Since the 1990’s, print-based information resources have become increasingly available electronically, hosted on remote servers; accessible via the Internet. This has placed pressure on libraries to make their print resources available in electronic format. The challenge to health libraries has been to provide electronic access to resources which can be used by clinicians at point of care; irrespective of location and time. The expense associated in subscribing to such databases has required libraries to find creative approaches to purchasing access to these resources. In Canada and Australia a number of initiatives have been established which has lead to a shared approach to the purchase and subsequent access to electronic resources. The purpose of this poster is to identify programmes in place in Canada and Australia.
Method
An initial search of the literature and the internet, and the researchers’ previous knowledge of existing and emerging programmes, assisted in identifying key Australian and Canadian initiatives. A web based survey was developed to permit a systematic approach to the gathering and reporting of data. Detailed results of the survey will be reported in a paper expected to be published in 2006. This survey is a continuation of a study conducted by Bacic (2004) in which she reported on Australian licensing initiatives in place at that time.
Conclusion
The continued establishment of programmes across Canada and Australia suggests a continued need for the sharing of costs and potential viability for a national approach to subscribing to electronic information required by clinicians.
Presenters/Authors
Marijana Bacic is a senior library manager at Southern Health, the largest area health service in Victoria, Australia. Marijana has been responsible for implementing online systems across the five Southern Health libraries. Previously, she has worked in academic, public, school and other special libraries. She has also worked in the private sector for a library supplier and a library systems vendor.
Vivian Stieda is currently the General Manager of the Health Knowledge Network at the University of Calgary. She recently returned from Australia where she conducted a
study of provincial and state-wide health information licensing initiatives with Marijana Bacic. Vivian completed her MLS at the University of British Columbia in 1994.
15. Consumer Health Information Providers Interest Group: (CHIPIG)
Michelle M. Arbuckle, Manager, Patient Education, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G 2M9, Tel.
(416) 946-4501 ext. 5644 , Fax. 416-946-4442, michelle.arbuckle@uhn.on.ca
Kimberley Meighan RN, Manager, Health Information, AboutKidsHealth, Family Resource Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave., Toronto, Ont., M5G 1X8, Tel:
(416) 813-6528, Fax: 416-813-6715
Discussion
In 1998 a group of individuals working in Consumer Health in a variety of settings set out to form a network of consumer health information providers. Their purpose was to explore this area of health information in addition to the rising need for wellness centres both within hospital and community settings.
Over the past several years this group has actively met on a regular basis to share resources, ideas and work towards a common goal of improving our communities through the education and empowerment of consumers. We have done this through benchmarking with other organization, networking through listservs, looking at best practices, sharing evaluations tools and marketing strategies.
In 2000 the group formally structured itself as the Consumer Health Information Providers Interest Group
(CHIPIG).
In 2001, CHIPIG participated in hosting a conference, focusing on pediatric family resource centres, held at The Hospital for Sick Children in collaboration with Hamilton Health Sciences Centre. As part of this three day conference one day was designated solely to consumer health information and the Canadian experience. Significant networking opportunities with experts in the field of consumer health ensued.
Outcomes
In 2004/2005 our group has grown in numbers and have developed a terms of reference with clear goals and direction for our future. In 2005 we became an affiliated interest group of the Canadian Health Library Association (CHLA).
This poster presentation will profile the history of CHIPIG, current terms of reference, goals and objectives, launching of our web site and future directions.
Presenters/Authors
Michelle M. Arbuckle is currently the Manager of Patient Education at the Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network in Toronto, Ontario, her role involves operations of the main Patient & Family Library and 22 satellite Resource Centres as well as overseeing the implementation and operations of several educational informatics projects.
Kimberley Meighan is a registered nurse at the AboutKidsHealth, Family Resource Centre at The Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Ont. She completed the “Nursing Care Leadership/Management Program at McMaster University and is continuing in her studies. She currently manages a busy family resource centre and provides families, patients, staff and the community with health and wellness information.
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