In you are new to Western (UWO), this is one way to learn about medical information resources provided by Western Libraries.

1. LIBRARY RESOURCES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS:
AN INTRODUCTION TO USING WESTERN LIBRARY
RESOURCES AND MOBILE APPS
Nazi Torabi
ntorabi at uwo.ca
Research & Instructional Librarian (Medical Sciences Librarian)
Allyn & Betty Taylor Library
September 12, 2012

2. OVERVIEW
 Library website overview
 Where to start
 Types of research studies
 Level of evidence hierarchy
 Types of information resources
 Medical Literature and databases
 Point-of-Care tools (POC)
 Grey literature
 and more
 Retrieving PDFs
 Campus vs. Off-Campus Access
 Recommended Tools for Mobile Devices

3. WESTERN LIBRARIES ACCESS
m.lib.uwo.ca
AccessMedicine
ACP Pier
Cochrane
Library
Diagnosarus
Dynamed
ePocrates Rx
Essential
AccessMedicine
Evidence Plus
http://www.lib.uwo.ca/
https://m.lib.uwo.ca/

5. FROM PROGRAM GUIDE PAGES OR DATABASES PAGE
Bookmark PubMed from here
Bookmark Google Scholar from here

6. TYPES OF MEDICAL QUESTIONS
Therapy Comparing interventions
Prevention How to reduce risk
Diagnosis
How accurate a diagnostic test
is
Prognosis
Likely outcome, progression or
survival
Etiology/Harm
Caused of this condition
Cost Analysis Economic analysis
Quality of Life Quality of Life

7. TYPES OF RESEARCH STUDIES
Therapy RCT
Systematic Review or Meta Analysis when available
RCT > Cohort Study > Case
Prevention
Control
Diagnosis
Prospective, blind controlled trial
comparison to gold standard
Prognosis
Cohort Study > Case Control >
Case Series/Case Report
Etiology/Harm RCT > Cohort Study > Case
Control
Cost Analysis Economic analysis
Quality of Life Qualitative studies
Adapted form : http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/services.htmld/EBP_docs/clin_question_worksheet.pdf

8. EVIDENCE HIERARCHY
Trip
Database
•Cochran Library
•DARE
•Pubmed
•Essential Evidence Plus
•National Guideline Clearinghouse
•ACP PIER
•etc
•ACP Journal Club
•Pubmed
•EMBASE
•Scopus
•etc
/Research peer-reviewed articles
Diagram from : http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Evidence-based_health_care

9. CLINICAL INFORMATION RESOURCES
• Unfiltered medical information sources
 Article databases (PubMed, AMED
, EMBASE, PsycINFO, SCOPUS)
Pick the right database based on
 Subject coverage
 Update frequency
 Publication type
 Language covered
 Index terms
http://www.lib.uwo.ca/files/taylor/Databases.pdf

10. CLINICAL INFORMATION RESOURCES
• Filtered medical information sources (POC tools)
 DynaMed
 ACP Pier
 Essential Evidence Plus
 UpToDate
 e-CPS
 Drug Information

11. MORE ON DATABASES
 Environmental Health topic
 EMBASE
 Health Canada: Environmental and Workplace Health
 Western Library guide
 Psychology
 PsycINFO
 Other psychology databases
 Health Economy
or via Cochrane
 NHS Economic Evaluation Database (EED)
 Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
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12. GREY LITERATURE
 Guidelines and Policies
 Theses and Dissertation
 Conference processing
 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD)
 Canadian Medical Association CPG Infobase
 Greynet International http://greynet.org/
 OpenGrey
 OpenSIGLE: System for Information on Grey Literature in
Europe
 New York Academy of Medicine's Current Grey Lit Report
http://www.greylit.org/

13. OTHER INFORMATION TOOLS
 Search engines
 Google
 Google Scholar
 Pubget
 Trip databse
 Multimedia resource collection
 Anatomy TV
 SMART imagebase
 AccessMedicine (select Multimedia)
 Henry Stewart Talks
 NEJM Videos in Clinical Medicine
 Springer protocols
 Evaluation
 Faculty of 1000 (F1000)
 Citation track and report
 Journal Citation Report (JCR)
 Google Scholar
 Scopus
 Web of Science

14. •You heard about recent research article entitled: “Clinical and
Biomarker Changes in Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Disease”
•Use Pubget and retrieve this article

15.  Use Trip Database
 Search for Alzheimer’s Disease AND Biomarker
 Limit to highest level of evidence
 Share your Result

16. SUMMARY SO FAR
 Identifying question types
 Identifying studies that best answer your question
 Searching down the levels of evidence
 Picking the right source of information

17. WESTERN LIBRARIES OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS
Option A: Option B:
Log in at www.lib.uwo.ca Use the EZ Proxy button
o Visit
https://www.lib.uwo.ca/offcampus/rem
ote.shtml#button
o Follow the instruction to
install the EZProxy button
for your browser

18. HOW WOULD YOU GET THE PDF?
Frazier CA. (1976). Asthma, ephedrine, and Olympic
eligibility. JAMA. Dec 27;236(26):2942. PMID:
1036551

19.  Once logged in to the proxy server,
 look for the term ‘proxy’ in the URL address of your browser
 look for the “Get it @ Western” button

22. LIBRARY TO GO
 Web-enable vs. Mobile
Apps
m.lib.uwo.ca
 Recommended tools for
mobile devices AccessMedicine
ACP Pier
 http://www.lib.uwo.ca/pr
Cochrane
ograms/clinicaloutreach/g Library
Diagnosarus
uidetohandhelddevices.ht Dynamed
ePocrates Rx
ml
Essential
AccessMedicine
Evidence Plus

23. SOME NOTES
 DynaMed
 Offline access
 Obtain serial number
 Skypscape
 ePocrates
 http://www.epocrates.com/iphonetips?ICID=home_hero_
tipsAndTricks
 Lexi-Comp via hospitals
 Five steps to buying medical apps on the App Store
 http://www.imedicalapps.com/2012/07/buying-medical-
apps-app-store/
 CNET Reviews - Handheld Buying Guide
HandHeld reviews and news

24. QUESTIONS
Need library related assistance?
Please don’t hesitate to contact me:
Nazi Torabi
519-661-2111 x88992
ntorabi at uwo.ca