Boost Box Archives

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• Disaster Information Resources / September 2012 (Recording | Transcript)
  • Presenters:

Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, Aquilent
Caroline Spellman, Aquilent

• Summary: Ms. Champ-Blackwell promotes and implements the disaster health information goals of the Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and for the Bethesda Hospitals’ Emergency Preparedness Partnership. This session discussed NLM disaster information resources and emergency response tools. A demo was provided of the Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER) and how it can provide emergency responders with critical information in the palm of their hand.
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• What's New in PubMed / August 2012 (Recording | Transcript)
  • Presenter: Kate Flewelling, Outreach Coordinator, NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region (MAR)
  • Summary: PubMed has seen a lot of changes in the past year.  Filters, revised Advanced Search, Send to Citation Manager, Computed Author Display, Versioning, and Discovery Tools--learn about all these new features in our one hour Boost Box session.
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• Study Design and Systematic Reviews / June 2012 (Recording | Transcript)
  • Presenter: Mary Lou Klem, PhD, MLIS, Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh
  • Summary: Systematic reviews are literature reviews that critically appraise and summarize the “best available evidence” for a clinical question or topic. While the most well-known “best evidence” is the randomized controlled trial (RCT), other study designs may also be appropriate for use in systematic reviews. This presentation provides an overview and description of two broad classes of study designs (experimental and observational), an explanation of critical differences between these two types of design, and a real-world example of the impact of such design differences on study outcomes.
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