In an effort to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions, NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence for England and Whales) just released the most updated guidelines for “Respiratory tract infections – antibiotic prescribing Prescribing of antibiotics for self-limiting respiratory tract infections in adults and children in primary care.” The most recent issue of BMJ has [...]

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From AHRQ…

Announcing a New Feature on AHRQ PSNet: Patient Safety Primers
AHRQ PSNet’s new Patient Safety Primers provide up-to-date summaries of key concepts in patient safety. Each Primer provides background on the topic’s epidemiology and context, and highlights relevant content from both AHRQ PSNet (i.e., the latest literature and essential [...]

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Bright Futures from the AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) are available for free online. From the AAP website…
The centerpiece of the Bright Futures program, the guidelines, provide child health promotion information and guidance for health professionals from pediatricians to public health officials to school nurses.
The Bright Futures Guidelines can help you be prepared for visits [...]

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We had a longer spring then usual with bearable temperatures and a surprising lack of humidity - ah - it was so nice! But it is now officially summertime in St. Louis with the telltale signs… daily temperatures in the 90’s and higher and the kind of humidity that feels like a impenetrable wall. According [...]

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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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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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A patron just showed me this…
http://www.carmun.com/
The Killer Bib Tool walks you through writing specific citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, and CSE. Once you register you can keep a bibliography and download it for your paper. And it’s free. How cool is that?

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The first practice guidelines on complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies for cancer patients from the Society of Integrative Oncology (SIO). Integrative Oncology Practice Guidelines are available for free online! http://www.integrativeonc.org/documents/JCI_2007_002.pdf

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