Virtual Journal Club

Please note: This website is for discussion purposes only. The information provided at this website is not intended to provide treatment advice, or to diagnose or treat any medical disorder. The creator of this website is not responsible for events that occur as a result of decisions made based on the information presented here.

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How to Use

Welcome to the WUSM Division of Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club. We encourage you to participate by

  • reading the selected articles, and
  • joining in the discussion by adding comments to the entries.

The Journal Club consists of PubMed entries for recent articles selected for their relevance to hospital medicine.  Each entry contains

  • the abstract for the article
  • links to the full-text of the article
  • a link to “Related Articles” (through PubMed)
  • user discussion

Note: you can access the full text of many articles for free through PubMed.   However, most publishers require that you have a subscription to access their articles on-line.  If you connect to the Journal Club from a computer at work, your institution’s subscription policy will apply.  Otherwise, you will require a personal subscription to the journal to read the full text.  Contact your institution’s subscription manager if you have questions.  Even if you don’t have a subscription, you can review the article’s abstract and read related abstracts through PubMed.

How to access full-text articles:

From the main page, if you click on an entry’s title, you will be taken to that article’s discussion page. From there, you have two ways to access the articles themselves:

1. Click on the journal or publisher icon(s) below the title

Use the journal/publisher icons as links to the articles

Use the journal/publisher icon as a link to the article

In some instances, for reasons we cannot fully explain, the journal/publisher icon will appear as a “broken link”. Even though the journal/publisher name may not appear, the link may still work if you click it.  Broken links will generally look like this:

Broken image link - the hyperlink to the article may still work!

2. Another way is to click on the Related Articles hyperlink below the title.

The Related Articles link also leads to the suggested article

This will take you to a list of similar articles at PubMed. The Virtual Journal Club selected article will usually be the first article listed.

PubMed listing of Related Articles

Once you have read the articles, enter your comments and join the discussion.

In order to combat spam, anonymous comments are not accepted on the Virtual Journal Club and all comments are held for moderation. The Editor will release comments once they are approved.