Taubman Health Sciences Library Blog- Blog Retired
- Global Innovation – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 20, 2014)
- Local Innovation & #MCubed – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 13, 2014)
- Open Access Journal on Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology
- National Medical Librarians Month 2014
- Suicide Prevention & Trauma on Social Media – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 6, 2014)
- Radiation Oncology Journal Club (#RadOnc) – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 29, 2014)
- From the National Library of Medicine: Roosevelt at NIH
- Patients on the Right TEDMED Questions – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 22, 2014)
- TEDMED on Patient Engagement – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 15, 2014)
Category Archives: research
Primary care telemonitoring to support diabetes management
From the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ): According to a new study supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), adding telemonitoring to the routine care diabetes patients receive did not significantly change outcomes. “Effect of … Continue reading
Most health outcomes following surgery are worse for low-income patients
From the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ): A new AHRQ study of 12 measures of outcomes following surgical procedures found that outcomes for patients from both high- and low-income geographic areas improved between 2000 and 2009. In fact, … Continue reading
PubMed’s end of year processing & your searches
The University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System has posted a good explanation of what “end-of-year processing” means for PubMed and for searching–& what you should do about it: Why is Searching PubMed in Late Autumn Different than Any Other … Continue reading
Meaningful use updates in USHIK
From the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ): Meaningful Use Portal is the “one-stop shop” for Meaningful Use Stage 1 and Stage 2 Clinical Quality Measures, their computation logic, their data elements, & the vocabularies and codes the data elements may … Continue reading
New public health MeSH terms for 2014
Each year, PubMed adds, changes, & deletes terms in the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) database, which contains all the terms used to index articles in Medline. I’m always excited (yes, really!) to see what new terms are available for public health, since … Continue reading
Applying comparative effectiveness research to individuals
From the Health Affairs Blog: A comparative effectiveness research (CER) study shows that surgery is better than medical treatment for a particular cardiac condition. My patient is 78 years old and has complicated diabetes. – does the study apply? Another … Continue reading
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