MLA 2013 Presentations
Submitted by Jenny Pierce, MS
Public Services Librarian
UMDNJ-Health Science Library
Are you attending One Health, the MLA ’13 Conference in Boston, MA this May? Did you know that there are chapter members presenting their work and research during the conference? As part of the chapter’s support for scholarship and continuing education here is a list of sessions and posters. Stop by and say hi!”
Papers
Session Name: 14: Evidence-Based Health Policy
Sunday, May 05, 2013, 5:23 PM – 5:39 PM
4: Best Practice for “Best Practices”
Presenter:
Kefeng (Maylene) Qiu – Evidence-Based Healthcare and Clinical Liaison Librarian, University of Pennsylvania
Presenter:
Ginny Brown – Library Intern, University of Pennsylvania
Presenter:
Kyan Chuong – Biomedical Library Intern, University of Pennsylvania
Presenter:
Ryan Geoffrey Cohen – Reference Librarian, National Library of Medicine
Presenter:
Bethany Myers – Instructional Technologies Intern, University of Pennsylvania
Presenter:
Anne K. Seymour – Associate Director, University of Pennsylvania
Presenter:
Craig A. Umscheid – Assistant Professor, Medicine and Director, University of Pennsylvania Health System
Objectives
University of Pennsylvania librarians work as team members at the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) Center for Evidence-based Practice (CEP), which is dedicated to translating the best medical evidence into clinical practice locally. CEP receives requests from clinical and administrative leaders regularly to help UPHS identify “best practices” for questions regarding clinical practices. The objective of this paper is to describe the development of an efficient approach to identify “best practices” published in the medical literature.
Methods
Literature searches in Ovid MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and related organizations’ websites were executed to help define “best practices”. Retrieved articles were screened and keywords from selected documents were analyzed to identify how the concept of “best practices” was defined and used in the literature. Based on this analysis, a recommended definition of “best practice” was adopted for search filter development.
To efficiently develop an effective MEDLINE search filter for “best practices”, we limited the scope of the analysis to one discipline. Because of CEP’s work in infectious diseases, guidelines in the category of “Bacterial Infections and Mycoses” from the National Guideline Clearinghouse were selected for analysis. From the PubMed records for these guidelines, librarians identified several key data elements, including high-frequency terms and journals with the most frequent guideline citations, to facilitate development of the filter. A gold standard was then developed to measure the performance of the filter in terms of its sensitivity, specificity, precision, and the number needed to read. The gold standard was developed using a MEDLINE search of infectious diseases articles published between January 2008 and December 2009 and hand searching of high impact infectious diseases journals published during the same time period.
Results
The development of our gold standard dataset and the comparison of our filter versus the gold standard are still in progress. Currently, we’ve screened more than 13,000 journal articles to develop our gold standard, with more than 20,000 additional journal articles still to be screened. Our final results including the “best practice” search filter and its performance characteristics will be presented at the Conference in May.
Conclusions
The conclusions will be presented at the Conference.
Session Name: 26: Collaborations for Health
Monday, May 06, 2013, 11:15 AM – 11:35 AM
3: Building and Sustaining Global Health Partnerships, One Country at a Time
Presenter:
Anne K. Seymour – Associate Director, University of Pennsylvania
Presenter:
Dineo Ketshogileng – Senior Librarian, Faculty of the Health Sciences, University of Botswana
Presenter:
Carlos Rodriguez – Head, Patron Services, University of Pennsylvania
Presenter:
Barbara Bernoff Cavanaugh – Associate Director, Health Sciences Libraries, and Director, University of Pennsylvania
Objectives
Describe the global engagement activities of the Biomedical Library at the University of Pennsylvania and its collaborations with internal university and external institutional partners. Present on key research and education projects as well as best practices for successful global health partnerships.
Methods
Describe global health initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania and expanding involvement of the Biomedical Library. Present highlights of library projects in collaboration with global partners in two developing countries (Botswana and Guatemala) addressing the information needs for evidence-based patient care, medical education and research in the under-served and under-resourced environments. Strategies for funding and developing innovative and sustainable programs will be discussed. The successes and lessons learned in building partnerships between diverse organizations will be reported. Future plans resulting from these partnerships will be presented.
Session Name: 19: Emerging Roles for Health Librarians and Finding New Information in Novel Places
Tuesday, May 07, 2013, 2:35 PM – 2:55 PM
4: Mobilizing Knowledge Resources: iPad Use for Evidence-Based Care
Presenter:
Lydia Witman – Clinical Librarian, Library Services, Pennsylvania Hospital
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Linda Sinisi – Entity Information Officer, Pennsylvania Hospital
Presenter:
Mary McCann – Director, Informatics, Library and Privacy, Library Services, Pennsylvania Hospital
Objectives
To assess the usefulness of large-screen handheld devices at the bedside, and how the devices might support evidence-based practice and high-quality patient education
Methods
A Technology Improvement Award from the NN/LM was used to purchase iPad devices. Devices were distributed to clinicians including physicians, nurses, and a clinical pharmacist, to use when caring for patients in the hospital setting. After completion of the study period, participants completed a survey to describe their usage such as affect on patient care and specific resources utilized. Specific resources surveyed include DynaMed, LexiComp, and other sources already provided to hospital staff in desktop format. Qualitative analysis of the survey data was then conducted.
Results
Participants’ (N=5) survey responses suggest that devices such as iPads can help support high-quality information delivery and patient care by providing information for either the clinician or the patient.
Conclusions
We were limited by the small number of participants, which decreases the external validity of our results. Infection prevention remains a concern. Technical challenges were the biggest barriers, primarily information security when accessing patients’ personal health information (PHI). Nonetheless, we conclude that devices such as iPads can enhance information delivery in the hospital setting. Additional formal research is needed.
Session Name: 25: Healthcare Information For All – HIFA 2015
Tuesday, May 07, 2013, 3:53 PM – 4:09 PM
4: A Librarian Partnership in Support of Guatemalan Research Training
Presenter:
Carlos Rodriguez – Head, Patron Services, University of Pennsylvania
Presenter:
Anne K. Seymour – Associate Director, University of Pennsylvania
Objectives
This paper will describe the role of librarians at the Biomedical Library, University of Pennsylvania, in collaborating with university faculty and Guatemalan librarians and faculty at two partner institutions (University of San Carlos and University of Francisco Marroquin) to support a training initiative to build research capacity in Guatemala.
Methods
The University of Pennsylvania has a comprehensive training program to build research capacity in Guatemala in partnership with two Guatemalan universities: University of San Carlos and University of Francisco Marroquin. As an extension of a global health outreach and mobile telemedicine program in Guatemala, librarians are supporting the modular training program. A medical librarian with expertise in human subject research and IRB operations will play a role in the August 2012 bioethics module by leading case study discussions with Guatemalan physicians and researchers. The August 2013 module will cover database and clinical trial management with a section on searching and critical appraisal of the medical literature and managing citations taught by both the Penn librarians and their Guatemalan counterparts. First, Guatemalan librarian skills in Medline searching and reference management software will be enhanced through in person and online instruction. In collaboration the librarians will develop a curriculum and teach in August 2013.
Poster Presentations
Session Name: Poster Session 2
Monday May 6, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM.
228: Partner with Physicians to Support Continuing Education in the Clinical Setting: Enable Their Reading Habits!
Poster Presenter:
Lydia Witman – Clinical Librarian, Library Services, Pennsylvania Hospital
Poster Presenter:
John Stern – Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases, Pennsylvania Hospital
Poster Presenter:
Donna Quinn – Intranet Coordinator, Pennsylvania Hospital
Poster Presenter:
Mary McCann – Director, Informatics, Library and Privacy, Library Services, Pennsylvania Hospital
Background & Objectives
Librarians working in clinical settings are challenged by clinicians’ lack of time for non-essential reading. At our hospital, partnership between the Clinical Librarian and a senior physician resulted in an e-newsletter. The newsletter aims to provide medicine residents, faculty, medical school students, and other members of the Penn Medicine community with hand-selected educational reading material from both popular and scholarly sources. The ultimate goal is to encourage good reading habits for lifelong and professional learning.
Methods
An attending physician who is also a member of the hospital faculty reached out to the library about sending health-related popular press items to the medicine residents on a regular basis. The librarian embraced the idea and suggested pairing popular press items with relevant academic papers or other scholarly sources. An initial recipient list was compiled, with additional recipients added over time. An online “reader poll” was periodically conducted (after 1 month and after 1 year). After initially distributing via e-mail only, Dreamweaver was used to create an archive of past issues, and all subsequent issues were produced as HTML versions for instant archiving. Distribution to the recipient list is by e-mail.
Results
Beginning with approximately 50 recipients, comprised primarily of internal medicine residents, after 1 year recipients numbered approximately 400 and included all students at our affiliated medical school. Feedback from periodic “reader polls” is generally positive. As of December 31, 2012, after approximately 14 months since the first issue, a total of 24 issues were produced. With an average of 4 to 5 sources in each issue, a total of 111 sources were distributed.
Conclusions
Unlike automated reading tools (e.g. RSS feeds or Docphin), our e-newsletter is a high-touch product tailored to our population. It encourages good reading habits for lifelong and professional learning, and serves to connect faculty members with learners throughout Penn Medicine on both the university and the health system sides.
Session Name: Poster Session 3
Tuesday, May 07, 2013, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
191: Use of Mobile Technology to Access Health Information: A Case Study in Botswana, Africa
Poster Presenter:
Dineo Ketshogileng – Senior Librarian, Faculty of the Health Sciences, University of Botswana
Poster Presenter:
Anne K. Seymour – Associate Director, University of Pennsylvania
Objectives
The presentation poster will look at the following: -Can mobile technology be a good alternative to provision of health information in resource-limited settings? -What challenges and benefits are there in providing health information through mobile technology in an African setting?
Methods
Use of mobile technology in healthcare has gained prominence in recent years. The use of this technology has started to be explored in Sub-Saharan Africa. Botswana started its first medical school in 2009 and in the following years expanded by offering postgraduate programs based in the country hospitals. Surveys conducted in 2008 and 2010 revealed that the residency sites did not have library services or reliable internet service. A partner university with grant funding in collaboration with the African university provided residents with smartphones loaded with medical apps to support their research and clinical decision-making. Feedback on the program gathered through surveys will be reported. Data on use of the mobile devices for access to medical information will be gathered. Future plans to scale up the program to medical students and additional residents and add tablet devices will be presented.
103: Starting a Mobile Project at a Multi Campus University
Poster Presenter:
Jenny Pierce – Public Services Librarian, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Objectives
At the request of the university libraries management team, a university-wide mobile initiative was begun in 2010. The timeline from the creation of the university libraries mobile working group to the development of the group’s mission and the first year of the project will be described.
Methods
A mobile subcommittee, made up of the university libraries staff, created a plan to better standardize and integrate mobile devices and resources into library services across all campuses. A Technology Improvement Award from the regional NN/LM library provided funding to purchase mobile devices, accessories, apps and eBooks so that staff could educate themselves to better support the university community. This poster will review the work of the group from its start through the first year. Lessons learned will be shared including some unexpected benefits.
Session Name: Poster Session 4
Tuesday, May 07, 2013, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
35: Pubmed Indexing and the ‘Osteopathic Physician’
Poster Presenter:
Jenny Pierce – Public Services Librarian, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Objective
In 2009 ‘Osteopathic Physician’ was added to the list of MeSH indexing terms This research will attempt to answer the question, does the term Osteopathic Physician describe only articles on osteopathic education or is it used to describe the entirety of the experience of being an osteopath? How does it compare to the previously used term, ‘Osteopathic Medicine?’
Methods
A Pubmed search will be run using the terms ‘Osteopathic Physician’ OR ‘Osteopathic Medicine’ for the years 2009-2012. A second search will be run using ‘Osteopathic Physician’ OR ‘Osteopathic Medicine’ AND the subheading ‘education’ OR Education, Medical, Graduate OR ‘Education, Medical’ 2009-2012.) These two searches will be compared for overlap. The full-text of all articles will be retrieved and reviewed by the author. Articles will be compared by content. All indexing terms for each article will be listed. Commonalities beyond the searched terms will be explored. It is expected that articles that do not overlap will be articles on the experience of being an osteopath.
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