EvergreenHealth and UpToDate reach agreement

Good news! EvergreenHealth and UpToDate have reached an agreement for continuing our institutional subscription. We were able to negotiate the price to an agreeable amount, so UpToDate has reinstated our access.  

Research Corner: December's Top 20 Topics

1: “Treatment Effectiveness for Symptoms of Patulous Eustachian Tube: A Systematic Review.” (J Public Health Mgmt Pract) 

2: “Bowel Injury in Gynecologic Laparoscopy: A Systematic Review.” (Obst Gyn) 

3: “Systematic Reviews of Anesthesiologic Interventions Reported as Statistically Significant: Problems with Power, Preci-sion, and Type 1 Error Protection.” (Anesth Analg) 

4: “An Updated Meta-Analysis Comparing Artificial Cervical Disc Arthroplasty (CDA) Versus Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF) for the Treatment of Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease (CDDD).” (Spine) 

Library News

Two TRIALS you will want to see... 

As technology continues to change at breakneck speed, there are exciting improvements and new tools being introduced to the marketplace. To keep pace with these constant changes and in hopes of improving our library services, we have the opportunity to look at two new tools. One is a point-of-care tool that provides content that is a synthesis of current evidence-based medicine and objective analysis; the other, a tool that collates every resource in a library collection and offers a user-friendly portal to search and procure items such as full-text arti-cles, drug summaries, book chapters and patient education. 

Research Corner: September's Top 20 Topics

1: “Quality Indicators for Primary Health Care: A Systematic Literature Review.” (J Public Health Mgmt Pract) 

2: “The Association Between Mild Cognitive Impairment and Self-care in Adults With Chronic Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.” (J Cardiovasc Nurs) 

3: “Risk of Gastric, Colorectal Cancer After Tamoxifen Use for Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis.” (J Clin Gastr) 

4: “Does External Rotation Bracing for Anterior Shoulder Dislocation Result in Reduction of the Labrum? (Am J Sports Med) 

5: “Self-reported Pain in Adolescents With Leukemia or a Brain Tumor: A Systematic Review.” (Cancer Nurs) 

IN THE NEWS  NEW 'Library Links™ design Take a look at our updated intranet site: As we continue to improve our services, this is on step in the process to make our resources easier for you to find and use. Clinical Access and Access Medicine trials This summer, we will be previewing two products from McGraw Hill. Clinical Access is a clinical decision support tool, which provides answers to your clinical questions at the point of care. Access Medicine, an online clinical resource, offers access to a variety of content from leading medical journals, as well as multimedia content. Check them out today! Clinical Key - Sign up for remote access Clinical Key, which replaced MD Consult, is available remotely. While at the hospital (or logged into the network), simply go to www.clinicalkey.com and select "Register." After filling out a short form and selecting your login information, you are ready to go!

LIBRARY TIP

UpToDate Anywhere & Mobile App 

Questions on how to start using UpToDate Anywhere? Here are some steps to help get you there: 

• For the initial registration, be sure you are using a hospital-networked computer. 
• Go to https://www.uptodate.com/login.do, the library site or physicians’ portal. 
• Click the Register/Login button in the upper right hand corner of the main screen. 

Research Corner: July’s Top 20 Hot Topics

If you are interested in any of these titles, please contact me for the full-text version of the articles. 

1: “The Importance of Meta-Analysis & Systematic Reviews in Determining Appropriate Practice Changes.” (J Emerg Nurs) 

2: “Older Adult Inpatient Falls in Acute Care Hospitals: Intrinsic, Extrinsic, and Environmental Factors.” (J Gerontol Nurs) 

3: “Implementing the Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression in Mental Health Units.” (Clin Nurse Spec) 

4: “Gum chewing and gastrointestinal function following caesarean delivery: a systematic review & meta-analysis.” (J Clin Nurs) 

5: “The Impact of Relationship Quality on Health-Related Outcomes in Heart Failure Patients and Informal Family Caregivers: An Integrative Review.” (J Cardiovasc Nurs)

EvergreenHealth Virtual Library

The Virtual Library is open to all members of the medical and hospital staff around the clock. Currently, the library can be found on the main Everlink page via “Library Links”:

Research Tools 

• Ovid: full-text e-journals 
• ClinicalKey (formerly: MD Consult) 
• Nursing Reference Center 
• Natural Standard 
• EBSCO eBooks 
• Micromedex 
• New England Journal of Medicine 
• Journal of the American Medical Association 
• PubMed 
• UpToDate 

Research Assistance 

Medical Librarian Michelle Goodwin, MLIS, is available as a resource to med-ical, nursing and other hospital staff with their health information needs. Library requests can be submitted via email (see address below); please in-clude the following information: