PURL'S from The Journal of Family Practice

PURLs(Priority Updates from the Research Literature), are brief articles that distill the literature to those few articles that are:

1. relevant
2. practice-changing
3. able to be implemented immediately.

PURLs are from studies selected and evaluated using Family Physicians Inquiries Network(FPIN)’s PURL Surveillance System methodology, and published in Journal of Family Practice.

The most recent topics include:

Migraine treatment “tweak” could reduce office visits
AudiocastStop headaches before they start
PURLs Methodology Release date: 7/1/2009Full text

Initiating antidepressant therapy? Try these 2 drugs first
Release date: 7/1/2009Full text

Suspect an eating disorder? Suggest CBT
AudiocastEating disorder clues you can’t afford to miss
Methodology Release date: 5/1/2009Full text

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Medical Book Fair Coming to the Library July 2nd Last Day

MEDICAL BOOK FAIR
In the Medical Library, 5th Floor
Last Day!
July 2nd, 11-5 pm(thurs)
Dolbey's Medical Bookstore is coming to the library for a book fair! They are bringing a variety of books, and can do special orders.

Let me know if there's anything you'd like them to bring, and I'll pass the request on.

There will be giveaways and refreshments, and information about library services.

Come check it out!

Clinical Trial Results & Acronyms

Finding information about results of a clinical trial in the news can be a challenge, but this site, started by Dr. C. Michael Gibson, compiles results in easy to view slide shows, as well as tracking where the results are published.

Clinical Trial Results is an organization of clinical trial researchers whose goal is to objectively and rapidly disseminate clinical trial results to physicians & other health care professionals so that they in turn can educate their colleagues and patients with the ultimate goal of accelerating the delivery of newer treatments.

The site also includes a handy guide to the often cryptic Clinical Trial Acronyms.

Medical Book Sale Friday 6/26, 8-2

Dolbey's bookstore will be in tomorrow, Friday June 26, 2009, at 8:00 am(note new time), until 2:00 pm. Come check out the pocket guides, or makes special requests for when they come back next week. Snacks too!

PubMed Quick Tip #3: Clinical Queries

Click on the Clinical Queries link on the left side of the screen when you are in PubMed in order to access search filters for Evidence Based Medicine. If you want to know the published evidence for a particular therapy, or diagnostic method, these filters will help narrow down the search.

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PubMed Quick Tip #2: Imagine the Perfect Article

One of my favorite limits is the "title" tag. If you imagine what title a great article would have, those keywords can help you hone in on relevant hits. This is particularly helpful when thousands of hits come up in an unlimited search. Some useful terms include "current concepts," "update," "practical"(or in combination with "approach," "strategies," or "management").

Click the limits tab on the PubMed homepage.

Scroll to the bottom of the limits page and under "Tag Terms" choose "title."

Type your search terms into the search box at the top of the page.

All the articles that come up will have those words in the title.

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PubMed Quick Tip #1: Free Full Text

Under the limits tab, is a checkbox for "Links to Free Full Text." If you have this checked, all topics you search will provide free articles. Or type in your topic AND free full text[sb] in the search box if you want to search directly from there.

PubMed Medline is like a menu--you look at the descriptions, decide what you want, but the actual food is in the kitchen. About 90% percent of the abstracts do not have the full article available online for free, but a small subset of articles are ready to print.

These come from(1) PubMed Central, the U.S. National Institutes of Health(NIH) repository of full text articles from studies that received NIH funding and 2) Publishers who decide to grant free access to particular articles(for whatever reason they choose).

This is a quick way to find an article, but remember that you are only looking at about 10% of the total articles in PubMed on your topic. Researchers are investigating what kind of effect this has on accuracy of results.

If you search all articles, on the results page, the free ones are indicated with green lettering, so you can pick them out.

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