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Research on Readmissions following PCI
Database: Ovid MEDLINE(R) <1950 to May Week 1 2007>
Search Strategy:
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1 percutaneous coronary intervention.mp. (3799)
2 exp *Patient Readmission/ (1414)
3 1 and 2 (0)
4 exp Angioplasty, Transluminal, Percutaneous Coronary/ (19570)
5 2 and 4 (5)
6 (re-admi$ or readmi$).mp. (10094)
7 1 and 6 (38)
8 from 7 keep 3-6 (4)
9 exp Atherectomy, Coronary/ (1239)
10 exp Angioplasty, Laser/ (867)
11 exp Angioplasty/ (34619)
12 exp *Angioplasty/ and 2 (2)
13 6 and 11 (131)
14 11 and (re-admi$ or readmi$).ti. (10)
15 exp Patient Readmission/ (4335)
16 exp *Angioplasty/ and 15 (21)
17 from 16 keep 1-21 (21)
Greetings-
The Wufoo Web site was down this morning for about 30 minutes. It now seems to be up again, but, just in case, I have printed off manual forms you can use to record your Reference Desk Transactions. They are on a clipboard which I have put on a shelf underneath the Ref-A workstation.
Cheers,
Martha
Hi all,
There have been a few discussions lately in reference and communications meetings about the ability to make your UCard picture show up with your contact information in your online directory entry. See Andre's entry as an example.
This is another nice way to put a face with your name, especially if you're a liaison. But say, for example, that your UCard ID photo is hideous. Really, you're not vain, but it's the worst piece of photo identification you have. Only slightly better than your Sam's Club ID (just a rhetorical scenario, of course). Another way you can integrate some added value into your directory entry it to add a link to your liaison page, which has a picture you have more control over. See my entry as an example.
Here's how to do these things. You might want to do both if your ID picture is acceptable.
*In OneStop, click "Personal Information" (in the list on the right sidebar).
*In the drop-down menu at the top center, choose "Internet Options." You can change a lot of stuff here. Also, if you've never been into your personal information before, you should explore the options in the other menus to see the different things you have control over. For example, if you don't want your home address information available in the directory, you can change that under "Directory Suppression."
*Scroll down toward the bottom. Under "World Wide Web URL," paste the link to your liasion page in the box if you so desire.
*Right below that is "UCard Photo Access." If you'd like to make your UCard photo available, you can do so there.
*Click submit at the bottom of the page. Your changes should be visible in the online directory almost immediately.
Of course, this isn't something you have to do, but it's another nice way to make ourselves more visible. Thanks to Andre for thinking of this. Let me know if you have any questions!
Liz
I just received a phone call from Amy Claussen that the UMN Libraries ejournals functionality is down, along with anything else that resides on the same server. Looks like the FindIt links from indexes are also not working. I have been able to successfully link to some full text articles by looking them up in Google Scholar, so you can suggest that people try this workaround, especially if they are on campus.
Also, try the full text links in PubMed - these may work, especially if folks are on campus and thus will be IP authenticated.
Stay tuned for updates-
Martha
2:15 PM FIXED - hooray!
For those of you who do advanced PubMed searching - has wondering how to float a subheading in PubMed kept you up at night? Have you tossed and turned thinking "there must be a way!", yet resorted to Ovid's .fs. command time after time? Rejoice! You can sleep well tonight because the secret is now revealed! Or maybe you already knew how to do it, and I'm just behind the curve. :)
In the MeSH browser in PubMed, you can look up subheadings as well as MeSH terms. I've done this for years to see the tree structure of a subheading, but it didn't click until just recently that THIS is how you can float a subheading in PubMed.
For example, if you're interested in floating the subheading "diagnosis" in your search, look up "diagnosis" in the MeSH database and select the one that says "diagnosis[subheading]". Then, just send it to the search box like you would a normal subject heading. Search PubMed, and it will pick up all the articles that have this subheading attached, regardless of which MeSH heading the subheading is attached to. You can then combine this floated subheading with the rest of the MeSH headings/keywords in your search.
There you have it! Too bad it took me years to figure this out, since it was right in front of my face this whole time (and, now that I look again, in the PubMed "help" - but I swear it wasn't there the last time I was trying to figure out if this could be done). Let me know if you have any questions!
Liz
Hi all,
I got a question from a user about whether citations from Ovid auto alert emails can be imported into RefWorks. After some experimenting and talking to RefWorks support, the answer is yes! It's pretty easy, too.
When users set up the auto-alert in Ovid, they should choose "email includes records only" for the report type, and "Ovid" for the result format (which is the default). Then, when they get the email, they can go into RefWorks, select "import" under the "references" menu, and use the "Ovid" import filter/datasource and "mixed databases" for the database. Paste the text of the email into the "import data from the following text" box, and the references will be imported, including the FindIt links. Yay!
I got thrown trying to do this on my own because I figured the result format in Ovid would have to be one of the tagged options. But no, just leave it as the Ovid result format and it works fine.
Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!
Liz
For those who may not have gotten this email from Meghan Lafferty, and for those who did and think it might someday come in handy but want to delete the email, here is a message about issues with Beilstein on Intel Macs (with special reference to the AHC):
Hello science librarians,
I know that if you get any questions about Beilstein, you'll probably send them to me as fast as you can. However, I wanted to let you know about a Beilstein problem that has come up recently.
I have recently been in contact with an IT person from the Academic Health Center (AHC) who was trying to help some users in Pharmacy. They have recently gotten Intel Macs. The only Mac version available for the Beilstein client, CrossFire Commander, requires the computers to operate in Classic mode which is not possible with the Intel Macs. Some people at other institutions have found work-arounds by installing Windows on their Macs and installing the PC version. The AHC does not allow anyone to install Windows on Intel Macs. If they find it, they will reformat the computers.
There is a web-based interface called DiscoveryGate that allows access to Beilstein and Gmelin (and a host of other databases, many pharma-related). It seems that moving to that is our best option right now. Many other schools are being pushed in the same direction (contact me directly if you really want details about why so many have been slow to move to the web client).
If AHC users with Intel Macs contact you about trouble installing CrossFire Commander (the Beilstein client), let them know that it is not an option on those machines currently. I am investigating what we need to do to make that switch so that everyone who needs Beilstein or Gmelin has access. I don't know how long it might take to migrate to DiscoveryGate.
Meghan
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Meghan Lafferty
Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Librarian
Science & Engineering Library
University of Minnesota
108 Walter Library
Minneapolis MN 55455
Tel.: 612-624-9399
E-mail: mlaffert@umn.edu
Hi everyone,
I mentioned this in last week's reference meeting, but wanted to get it posted in a central place. If you want to print out a patent, it's tedious (if not impossible) using Google Patents or the USPTO website. However, the European Patent Office has PDF versions of US and International patents, which print like a charm. You can also quickly find the website by Googling "espace".
The best way is to find patents once you get there is to click "number search" on the left sidebar, plug in the patent number, and voila.
Let me know if you have any questions. Enjoy!
Liz
Greetings,
Chad reminded me that our Reference Blog is open to the public and as such we should avoid any reference to a patron by name. I had considered this prior to posting the original message and was in error by including the name. For future posts please do not use names and if necessary, we will discuss individual patrons during our staff meetings.
Regards,
Jim
Greetings,
I answered the Reference Desk phone at 8:00 this morning and had a rather extended reference encounter with a non-affiliate, and frequent caller who requests information on fairly complex medical issues. She has used our services consistently over the last several years.
After conferring with Del and Liz, I have learned that this particular patron has begun to behave in a manner that is problematic. She has made demands that items be faxed, and has insisted that other staff of done this for her; she has called back at various times hoping to get a staff member who will "give her the answer that she is looking for," when she has not gotten it the first time around; and she can, at times "put words into your mouth," for example "...but you just said X and now you are saying Y." I had this happen during my transaction this morning.
Fortunately, these types of encounters are few and far between, and at present are related to one patron, but this does provide an opportunity to remind each other of some basic guidelines to keep in mind when you are dealing with a patron on the phone:
• Phone reference assistance is limited to 10 minutes
• State which of our resources (print or electronic) you are reading the information from – try to include edition, pages, etc.
• If a patron is asking multiple questions or continues to ask additional questions, you may say that you are only able to answer one more question for that encounter. Del has mentioned that he finds this to be an effective strategy to force that patron to “prioritize” their particular information need(s).
• Our subject expertise is related to our collections and use of finding tools. We do not and should not interpret information that we are providing. Always refer the requestor to a healthcare professional – doctor, nurse, pharmacist, etc. – when you are being asked to interpret or offer medical advice.
• Often a person calling is looking for a “second opinion” because they are not satisfied with answers that they have gotten from a healthcare provider. This is not our job.
• If a patron is being insistent or pushy you may refer them to me (5-4499)
Finally, I would appreciate your telling Del or me about any encounters that you have had with this patron that you regard to have been inappropriate or uncomfortable. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Jim