AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) has made the book Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses available for free. You can download PDF’s of each chapter or order your choice of three printed volumes or a searchable CD-ROM. A print copy is already on its way to the SLCH Medical Library.
To [...]

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From the RML News …
Evidence Based Medicine Resources - free and online!:
Need some way to understand Evidence Based Medicine just a little better? Check out these tutorials:
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Tutorials/EBM/welcome.htm
http://jeffline.tju.edu/Education/courses/informatics/activities/ebm_info.html
http://library.umassmed.edu/EBM/tutorials/index.cfm
http://www.usc.edu/hsc/nml/lib-services/tutorials/ebm.html

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Taken from the April Issue of the Joint Commission’s Newsletter

Joint Commission Alert: Prevent pediatric medication errors
Medications specifically made for adults and administered to children in health care facilities are putting young patients at greater risk for drug errors, according to a Joint Commission alert issued to improve pediatric safety. The Joint Commission’s latest Sentinel [...]

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The National Library of Medicine has a freely accessible database of drugs in lactation called LactMed.
You can search LactMed using either the common name or the medical name. For example, when I type in “Paxil” the first result I get is for “Paroxetine.”
A search will result in a summary of whether or not [...]

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The following appeared in the most recent edition of The Appendix, newsletter of the Health Sciences Library University of Colorado Denver. These rules are freely available here. These are good, clear, and concise rules.
Ten Simple Rules
Ever wish you had that mythical grandfatherly (or grandmotherly) mentor, guiding you along the path to success in [...]

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