CDC's Holiday Health Song

Enjoy a little holiday cheer from The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) :

The 12 Ways to Health Holiday Song
http://www.cdc.gov/family/holiday/12ways.htm

Introducing OvidSP : New Interface for Medline & CINAHL

Ovid has announced a new interface for MEDLINE and CINAHL. Click on the Try OvidSP! link on any page in the current Ovid databases for immediate access to the new platform.

Now is the time to check out OvidSP! You’ll notice the easy-to-use interface, now with multiple search tabs geared to different types of searching.

Basic Search (see screenshot below), ideal for novice or occasional users, employs natural language searching and generates relevance ranked results.

Ovid Syntax allows you to search just like you do now in Ovid Gateway’s Advanced Search. New search refinement, results management, and alerting tools really do speed and streamline searching.

We will have dual access to both OvidSP and Ovid Gateway until February 4, 2008. As always, if you have any questions, please contact your Affinity Librarians :

Michele Matucheski at 3-0340 (MMC) or Margo Lambert at 8-2325 (STE).

World AIDS Day : December 1

Established in 1988 by the World Health Organization, World AIDS Day is observed every year on December 1st.

Resources for AIDS awareness are available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website, http://www.hhs.gov/aidsawarenessdays/days/world/index.html .

Included are links to fact sheets, customizable posters, downloadable public service announcements (PSAs) and videos. AIDS.gov provides access to U.S. government HIV/AIDS information on prevention, testing, treatment, research, policies and resources.

--From the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, 2007.

Find Drug Information for Health Professionals

Find Drug Information for Health Professionals
Visit the above library web page on the Affinity Intranet for the following listing of recommended drug resources.

DailyMed (Drug Information) : Provides high quality information about marketed drugs. Includes FDA approved labels (package inserts). Provides health care providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts (similar to the PDR).

FDA's Drug Information Pathfinder : Pathfinder from the Food & Drug Administration

MDConsult : Includes full-text Medical Books, Journals, Patient Handouts, Practice Guidelines and more. Includes excellent drug information from Gold Standard with images for identification and verification.

Drug Information (MedlinePlus) : Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications.

Micromedex Drug Information : Drug and Toxicology Information, Drug Interactions, Dosing Tools, AltMed Leaflets, PDA Resources. Includes access to the PDR.

How to Find the PDR Online : Step-by-step screenshots to navigate your way to the PDR online.

LactMed : Drugs and Lactation : Includes information such as maternal levels in breast milk, infant levels in blood, potential effects in breastfeeding infants and on lactation itself, the American Academy of Pediatrics category indicating the level of compatibility of the drug with breastfeeding, and alternate drugs to consider.

Online Books on Drugs and Medications : A selection of 20+ items from the Affinity Electronic Bookshelf.

New and Improved Electronic Bookshelf

Did you know that Affinity Library Services subscribes to over 350 online textbooks in medicine, nursing and allied health? We track all of them in a QuickBase application called The Electronic Bookshelf.

You can get a sneak peak here. This new version will replace the old version on December 17th, 2007.

How to get there :
Library Home Page > Find Books > Electronic Bookshelf (old version) > New and Improved eBooks on QuickBase

The Electronic Bookshelf is a DIRECTORY, or index, of the eBooks Affinity-ites can access in various free and subscription sources. It does not (and will not) search the full-text of these eBooks.

Since most of our vendors are IP-authenticated, you'll need to be at an Affinty computer in order to access the eBooks. Use outside Affinity will result in broken links.

Users will be able to search or browse by subject, title or keyword.
The eBooks database will present a direct link into any of the eBooks we track.

Sources covered include eBooks from the following :
Books@Ovid
Stat!REF
MDConsult
NCBI Bookshelf

If you have questions, comments, or want to report broken links, contact Michele Matucheski via Outlook email or via phone at 3-0340.

New and Improved Electronic Bookshelf

Winners Announced from NMLM 2007

Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate National Medical Librarian’s Month 2007.

We appreciate your participation and enthusiasm!

Winners of our October Contests are as follows :

How Many Life Savers in the Jar? (Winners received the candies.)
Susan Harris, Radiology, MMC
Marilyn Binder, Radiology, STE
Donna Schultz, Cardiology/AMG Heart and Lung

Word Search Prize Drawing for a Gift Shop Gift Certificate :
Patricia Jolin, MMC Environmental Services
Nanette Williams - Nursing
Kendra Rios - STE Foundation

Find Past Entries

Did you know … The Library articles that appear in The Weekly are archived on The What’s New at Affinity Libraries Blog?

Visit us here!

Or Affinity Intranet > Library > What’s New?

Wish you could find a particularly helpful article from 6 months ago?

Use the “Search this Blog” feature (Above).

Or browse back in time on the archive of past posts (Left).

Archives Week : National Medical Librarians' Month

Photos from The Tank Family Farm, Oshkosh, WI.

Sneak a peak at some of our archival scrapbooks and photo albums online.

Affinity Archives Web Albums on Picassa

These days, many of the pictures we’re acquiring for the Affinity Archives come in digital format. While this poses some unique preservation challenges (Will they be around 100 years from now? Think about the fate of 8-track tapes from the 1970s …), it does allow us to make these pictures much more accessible to people.

If you have pictures (digital or paper) that you would like to donate to the MMC or STE Library Archives, contact us :

Michele Matucheski at MMC mmatuche@affinityhealth.org
Margo Lambert at STE mlambert@affinityhealth.org

What are we looking for?
People, places, and events from around Affinity, and Affinity in the Communities.
Examples :
Nurses Week
Heritage Days
Retirements
Affinity Packer Picnics

Anything that captures the spirit, culture, and times of Affinity.
If you’ve got pictures, we’d love to have copies for the Archives!

How is this useful?
At MMC, the Hallmarks of History exhibit includes photos from The Tank Family Farm, the farm that was on the building site of the present Mercy Medical Center. Not long ago, some neighbors of the Tanks from years ago asked about the Tank Family Farm Pictures. They had been removed from the exhibit. By making the pictures available as a web photo album, we were easily able to share the photos. The family was very pleased!

What's New at Affinity Libraries? Audio Book Drive

By Margo Lambert, MLIS

If you regularly listen to recorded books and are wondering what to do with that rapidly growing collection of tapes and CDs to which you’ll never listen again, please consider donating them to the Affinity Libraries and help to enhance our patients’ experiences.

The Affinity Libraries wish to develop a collection of general interest recorded books to be made available to patients. Since the purchase of non-medical materials falls outside the scope of acceptable uses for library funds, we are inviting AHS staff members to donate gently used books on cassette or CD. We would welcome fiction, history, humor, biography, or any other titles that might entertain and help pass the time for those facing longer periods of hospitalization or for those who must undergo lengthy treatments. It is our hope that, by providing this type of material to our patients, we will be able to increase patient satisfaction with our facilities.

Of course, staff members would also be welcome to check out these materials.

We will be accepting donated audio books at the following locations:

Mercy Medical Center, Oshkosh
The Clark Family Library
920-223-0342

St. Elizabeth Hospital
Health Science Library (near the ER)
920-738-2324

Thank you very much for your participation in this project.

Looking for Answers? : Your Librarian has the Key to Quality Information!

What does a Health Science Librarian do all day?

It’s a lot more than just circulating and shelving books.

In between helping people to use the computers, unclogging paper jams in the MFD, giving tours of the library and website, writing articles for The Weekly …

First and foremost, Librarians help people find the information they need to make well-informed health care decisions.

Who do we help?
Physicians, Nurses, Physical Therapists, Transcriptionists, Administrators, other health professionals, Patients and their families, community members, and students.

What are they looking for? Articles and information on :
Current updates in their specialty areas
Continuing Education and Training
Best Practices for Patient Care
Consumer Health and Patient Education Information
Policy Updates
Patient Safety Initiatives
Drug Info
Research for student papers (Many employees have gone back to school.)

How do we do help?
* By organizing and making accessible libraries of information in both physical (real-world books and journals) and online environments (internet).
* By training people to use the library tools to find what they need
* By doing the research in the form of database and internet searches
* By delivering the articles and information to our patrons
* By helping people use technology efficiently

Does our work make a difference?
YES! Information can help a patient or family member deal with a new diagnosis or treatment by alleviating anxiety, and by empowering them to take part in their own health care. It can also help them to cope, and develop a game plan.

One woman says, “At the age of 35, my brother was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. The helpful staff at The Mercy Library provided several books and handouts on the topic. For years my family had been wondering why this otherwise smart person (my brother) just wasn’t able to function in the world (He couldn’t hold a job, made poor decisions, didn’t have many friends, made inappropriate comments …) With this information, the pieces of the puzzle are coming together. Now, we understand that his brain is literally wired differently. We have a whole new understanding of what to expect, what situations to beware of, how we can support him, what he needs to work on, and what he might still be able to accomplish with his life. We know what we’re dealing with now, and we’re ALL learning to cope with this form of high-functioning autism. My brother is currently in counseling to learn the social skills he couldn’t pick up on his own. Thus starts the road to recovery.”

Your Medical Librarian : The Key to Quality Information

October is National Medical Librarian's Month

Celebrate with Affinity Library Services.

We'll be having special features all month. Stay tuned!

October is National Medical Librarians' Month : Enter Our Drawing

How many Life Savers in the jar?

Enter your guess online by visiting the library website, or use this web form.

Or stop by the libraries at :

· Mercy Medical Center Library
· St. Elizabeth Hospital Professional Library
· St. Elizabeth Hospital Resource Café
· Affinity Health & Wellness Center at the20th Ave Oshkosh YMCA.


Contest ends October 31.
One entry per person, please.

The winning entry wins all the candy!

As always, it is our pleasure to serve you.

Word Search Chellenge for NMLM!

Complete this Word Search (Word doc) for a chance to win a gift certificate to the MMC or STE Gift Shops.

By Popular request, Margo made this year's puzzle a little more difficult than last year.

Have Fun!

Download and Listen to AudioDigest MP3s

Download and listen to AudioDigest MP3s on your computer or player.
Use this tutorial [Affinity access only] with screen shots to learn how.
Includes our institutional username and password.
We’ve already subscribed, so you don’t have to!

Affinity Libraries subscribe to the AudioDigest continuing medical education series in the following areas :

Anesthesiology
Emergency Medicine
Gastroenterology
General Surgery
Internal Medicine
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedics
Otolaryngology
Pediatrics
Psychiatry
Urology

New issues are made available once or twice a month.

If you would prefer, we still have AudioDigest programs available as AudioCDs.

Contact Your Librarian, Michele Matucheski, at mmatuche@affinityhealth.org or 920-223-0340 with any questions.

Affinity Full-Text on Google Scholar

What is GoogleScholar?
Instead of searching the wide-open internet, Google Scholar allows you to search the scholarly literature, online journals from reputable publishers. It's the scholarly (smarter) version of Google.

In theory, Google Scholar provides better quality results than just searching the wide-open internet.

Where is Google Scholar?
In Google, Click on “More.”
From the list of options, select Scholar.

Or go directly to : http://scholar.google.com/

Affinity Full-Text through Google Scholar
Did you know that if you use Google Scholar at any Affinity computer, you’ll be able to access the library’s stock of full-text articles. Just look for the “Affinity Full-Text” link with each entry.

Clicking on the Article Title (In this case “Creative Space”) will take you to the article on the publisher’s site. In this case, Affinity does have access to the journal Headache, so getting to the full-text is easy!

To see other options, click on the Affinity Full-Text link. This will take you to our A-Z Journals List. The Article Linker will provide all the links for where we have full-text access to that article. There may be more than one source.

Keep in mind, we don’t have online access to everything on the internet, but it’s a lot more than you’d see on your own.

Sometimes our only access is in a print journal. In most cases, if you make the request, we can email you a PDF copy of the article from a print journal. If we don't have it, we can also usually get copies of articles from other libraries via Inter-Library Loan.

Do Mandrakes Really Scream?

The exhibition, Do Mandrakes Really Scream?: Magic and Medicine in Harry Potter showcases seven treasures from the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Division, featured in the Harry Potter series. This special exhibition is open until November 30, 2007, and is located in the History of Medicine Division Reading Room, on the first floor of building 38 of the National Library of Medicine on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

The exhibition's web site is now available to all at
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/mandrakes . ENJOY!

"Save Patients from Media Hype"

Pector EA. Save Patients from Media Hype : How to Help Them Make Sense of the “Research” they Bring to You. Medical Economics. August 17, 2007 ; 84(16)). Available at http://www.memag.com/memag/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=448061

This article discusses how patients read medical studies, and some of the typical interpretations such as “Risk is imminent” or “If it’s published, it must be true.” It also includes a section on interpreting medical statistics and where to access the best evidence (EBM results).

DailyMed - Current Drug Information

DailyMed – Current Drug Information
http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/about.cfm

* From The National Library of Medicine.
* Provides high quality information about marketed drugs.
* Includes FDA approved labels (package inserts).
* Provides health care professionals and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts (similar to the PDR).
* Easier to get to than the PDR online through Micromedex
* Free on the Internet

For more info on DailyMed, view the PowerPoint Presentation from The NLM Theater.

How do I find it on the Affinity Intranet?

Method 1 : Use the Search box atop any intranet page . Type in : DailyMed.

Method 2 : Affinity Intranet > Library > Drug Info for Health Professionals > DailyMed

Method 3 : Affinity Intranet > Library > What’s New at Affinity Library Services? > Use the Search Box at top of page > Type in DailyMed

Method 4 : Use Google (or other favorite search engine) > Type in DailyMed.

Health : US News

Health: US News

A treasure trove of consumer health information, including US News’
Health Rankings and Hospital Search. Feature stories like "Avoid a Summer Visit to the Emergency Room," and "Keep Moving With Injury-Free Workouts,” and “How safe is Your Drinking Water?” and much more …

Hospital Directory
See Affinity listings with statistics :
Calumet Medical Center

Mercy Medical Center

St. Elizabeth Hospital

Best Health Plans – See where Network Health Plan ranks.

Announcing the Affinity CME Video Blog!

The Affinity Health System CME Offerings (aka The Affinity CME Video Blog) via your computer.


What is it?
* A regularly updated website where you can access video presentations of continuing medical education (CME) programs previously presented at Mercy Medical Center. We hope to add other programs from around Affnity soon.
* Access is 24/7 - on your own schedule
* Access from your work or home computer
* Better use of time (not spent in travel to the presentation site)

* So more of you can "attend" these lectures without physically being there

For an intro about the CME Video blof itself, visit the sites below.


CME Video Blog FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

CME Video Blog and Library Orientation (Documentation and Handouts), July 11, 2007

CME Video Blog and Library Orientation Video

CME Video Blog System Requirements

Liberating the Evidence : Take a TRIP

The TRIP Database is one of the better known meta-search engines for Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). It lets clinicians search several EBM Tools at once, saving valuable time.

Find a link to TRIP on the Affinity Library Pathfinder, Find the Best Evidence.

TRIP is listed under Meta-Search Engines.

TRIP Database : Turning Research Into Practice
http://www.tripdatabase.com/

Top 10 Search Tips for TRIP
By John Brassey

Want more? Here’s a more comprehensive list of tips for TRIP, also by Mr. Brassey.

Credit goes to David Rothman for “discovering” these sources and sharing it on his medical librarianship blog.

MDConsult's New Look

Did you know … a smarter, easier, better MDConsult has been available for about 6 weeks.

Take a Tour! View the revised MDConsult training presentation.

Still all the great full-text info you're used to :

• Books
• Journals
• Drug Information
• Patient Education Handbouts
• Guidelines
• News, and more ...

MDConsult brings the leading medical resources together into one integrated online service to help physicians efficiently find answers to pressing clinical questions and make better treatment decisions.

Available through Affinity Library Services.

Wildlife at Mercy

Nature helps many people heal and re-energize. Patients, families, and staff members have been enjoying the abundance of wildlife living in and around the pond at Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh.

Visit the Wildlife at Mercy webpage.
This page tracks the wild animals that have been seen on the grounds at Mercy. Visit
* If you want a glimpse of the Great Blue Heron and the White Egret
* If you want to see what other wildlife has been spotted there
* If you don’t get to Mercy very often to see these animals live.

There’s also a link to a Submit a Critter Form. Iif you spot something not already listed, we'll add it to the list.
* Have any of the Pelicans at Menomonee Park ventured over to the Mercy Ponds?
* Seen the Eagles in Winneconne at Mercy?
Let us know!

The World @ Affinity Libraries

Affinity Librarians, Michele Matucheski (MMC) and Margo Lambert (STE), are available to give you and/or your department a personalized library orientation covering the physical and online library collections and services we offer.

We’re here to help you find the info you need to make well-informed clinical and business decisions.

Ask us! We can show you :
* How to use the Library web page and resources
* How to find full-text journal articles
* How to find drug info
* How to find Patient Education Handouts
* How to find Evidence-Based Practice materials

You’ll be amazed at what’s available to you!

Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP
Library at Mercy Medical Center, Oshkosh
3-0340 mmatuche@affinityhealth.org

Margo Lambert, MLS
St. Elizabeth Hospital Library & Resource Café
Appleton
8-2325

Did you know you can borrow the following equipment from the MMC Library?

* Boom Box
* CD Player (Personal)
* Digital Camera
* Digital Voice Recorder
* Display Board (up to 4 panels)
* DVD Recorder
* Tripod

Contact Michele at 3-0340 or mmatuche@affinityhealth.org to put in your reservation. Or submit your request online at Borrow Library Equipment.

We’re partnering with The Affinity Learning Center (formerly Training & Development) to make some of this equipment more readily available to employees needing it for work-related purposes at MMC.

At STE, you may reserve a Digital Camera, DVD Recorder and Tripod.
Complete this form to request : STEs Equipment Request Form

Laptop Computers and data projectors are available from the IS Dept.
Call the Help Desk for assistance in reserving items, ext. 8-9400.

What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

Food portions seem to be a lot bigger than they used to be.
That’s why I was delighted to discover the following website :

What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-200-calories-look-like.htm



An instructive visual comparison of 200 calories worth of broccoli,
cheeseburger, Doritos, flax bread, Fruit Loops, peanut butter, and many
other common foods. You might also enjoy exploring the rest of the site, whose purpose is to provide "clear answers for common questions."

Discovered by Marylaine Block on her NeatNew on the web weekly email newsletter.

What's Next for Library Services?

We will continue to offer excellent Library Service at all the Affinity Library locations.

Margo Lambert, MLS, will assume the role of professional Librarian at St. Elizabeth Hospital. She will split her time between the professional library and the Resource Café. She can be reached via Outlook, by phone, or in person.

Michele Matucheski remains at MMC Library.

Many tools and resources are available through the Library Intranet website as well.

Do not hesitate to contact Affinity Library Staff. We are here to serve YOU!

Farewell, Mary Bayorgeon!

Mary B. with the "Book Ends" Memory Quilt I made for her. It is now filled with autographs and messages of gratitude and encouragement.

Read more about the Making of the Quilt.

It is with sadness that we bid Mary Bayorgeon farewell on April 30, 2007.

In a recent re-organization of Affinity Health System, Mary's position was eliminated. She has been Library Director based at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton, WI, for nearly 35 years.

She has been a wonderful mentor, and Library Leader throughout her career. She has designed and built 2 Hospital Libraries (St. Elizabeth Hospital and Mercy Medical Center), and 3 consumer health libraries. In 2004, she was elected Wisconsin Health Science Librarian of the Year by her professional peers.

One physician recently said that Mary has saved the lives of his patients over the years by the information she has provided him over the years. Our work makes a difference!

When the job at Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh became available in 1999, I jumped at the chance to work with such a Leader for Wisconsin Libraries. I am honored and humbled to have had the opportunity to work with Mary for the last 9 years. I've learned so much under her guidance, I can't even begin to list the lessons learned here ...

Mary states this is not a retirement. She will continue to advocate for ALL types of libraries in her 3rd-term appointment to COLAND, a committee that advises the Governor of Wisconsin on Library Issues for the State.

Farewell, Mary. You have made a difference! Thank you.

Mary Bayorgeon in 2004 as WHSLA Librarian of the Year.

AHS Offers A.D.A.M. A-Z Health Library in Spanish

by Maria Myers, Affinity Web Development Manager Freelancer

Generous grants from the St. Elizabeth Hospital Community Foundation and the Mercy Health Foundation will help Affinity’s health providers better communicate with our Spanish-speaking customers. Affinity Health System now offers our online ADAM A-Z Health Library in Spanish. The St. Elizabeth Hospital Community Foundation grant supports Spanish language QuickSheets for internal provider use. The Mercy Health Foundation grant supports the public Internet version of our ADAM A-Z Health Library.

You may view or use the Spanish version of the A-Z Health Library in several ways.

To view the A-Z Health Library on the web, go to affinityhealth.org click Health Resources, and select the library. Click on any document and in the navigation on the right select “Read Spanish version” link. You may select the same link to change the language back to English.



Also, you may select the A-Z Health Library Spanish from the Health Resources Drop down or on the left navigation in the Health Resources section, as shown below.



To get to QuickSheets use Affinity’s intranet search “QuickSheets”. QuickSheets is a great tool that allows providers to put their name and contract information at the top of their patients’ reference. From QuickSheets start page, you can quickly and easily change articles already in your favorites list to Spanish simply by clicking the Sp icon as shown below:


If you’re selecting a new QuickSheets article you can view it in Spanish by selecting the print in Spanish icon. The article will not print immediately but will appear in Spanish, formatted for printing. You need to click print from the File Menu to make the document print.


Any questions or comments regarding the Spanish Health Library may be directed to Maria Myers at 720-1747 or mmyers@affinityhealth.org

Question : What’s our Username & Password for Ovid?

Answer : None needed. Just click the red “START OVID” button. If you ever see the following screen from Ovid while at an Affinity computer :

If you are using an Affinity computer, ignore the ID and Password boxes.
Simply click on “START OVID.” We are IP-Authenticated with Ovid, so as long as you are using an Affinity computer (or Affinity Remote Access), you won’t need an Ovid ID and password.

New Features for MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus is one of Affinity Library Services’ favorite sources for consumer health and patient education information.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) recently introduced a number of new features to the MedlinePlus Health Topic pages.

Highlights include:
* Each page now displays a photograph or illustration.
* A brief summary of each disease or condition also displays at
the top of the page. Composed by experienced medical writers and reviewed by NLM staff, the summaries are based largely on NIH and other government information. They are written at an easy-to-read level and include links to related topics. As of March 28th, summaries appear on about half of English pages. All English and Spanish Health Topic pages will include a summary in the near future.
* Synonyms appear right under the health topic name.
* A new category, labeled Start Here, links users to overviews and
important information for first-time visitors.
* A centrally-located Table of Contents divides the MedlinePlus
categories into six boxes to show users everything on the page at a glance.

Take the guided tour at
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/faq/healthtopicredesign.html.

PDFs of Cochrane Reviews

Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews in PDFsPDFs for EBM Topic Reviews in The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews are now available. Affinity staff can click on clearly marked links on a Topic Review page and a Group Table of Contents page in the database, as well as in a Search Results page, to get to the PDFs.

To access The Cochrane Database through Affinity, follow this path :

Method 1 :
Affinity Intranet > Library > Find the Best Evidence > Cochrane

Method 2:
In the search box atop of any Affinity Intranet Webpage, type “Cochrane.”
The first two items in the results list will lead to The Cochrane Database.

Find the Best Evidence : Evidence-Based Practice Tools - (100%)Successfully navigate the many tools available for Evidence-Based Practice. Includes an easy-to-use framework for accessing Cochrane Systematic Reviews, practice guidelines, clinical trials, and more ...

Evidenced-Based Practice Resources (Ovid) - (100%)Access to our Evidence-Based Practice Reviews via Ovid. Includes The Cochrane Library (complete) and ACP Journal Club.

Article on LEAN as applied to Healthcare

Reducing waste in US health care systems. Bush RW.
JAMA. 2007 Feb 28;297(8):871-4. Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Wash 98101, USA. PMID: 17327529 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Link to Full-text (This should work at any Affinity computer or through remote access.)

Drop-in Computer Labs Available to “Roving” Affinity Employees

Traveling throughout Affinity for meetings? Away from your office?
The Training & Development computer lab is booked with a class?
Got some spare time between meetings?
Need a computer to get some work done in the meantime?

Need a quiet place to do the online JCAHO Mandatories?
Just want to check your email?

Stop in at the computer labs at the MMC and STE Health Science Libraries.
No appointments necessary.

Access to Microsoft Office, Internet, Outlook email, and more …

2007 JCAHO Manual on Affinity Intranet

The 2007 version of the JCAHO Manual is now available on the Affinity Intranet.

There are several ways to find the No Login/No Password version :

Method 1 :
Follow this direct link :
2007 JCAHO Manual


Method 2 :
On the Affinity Intranet,
Use the search Box at the Top of the page
Type in JCAHO or CAMH
The 2007 version should appear near the top of the results list.

Method 3 :
Affinity Intranet > Library > Find Books > Electronic Bookshelf
Type in JCAHO
The 2007 version should appear 1st in the results list.

Method 4 :
Affinity Intranet > Library > General Reference Links > JCAHO Resources > JCAHO Manual

Whatever happened to SAM? Or What’s in a Name?

Are you wondering whatever happened to Scientific American Medicine (SAM)?

In the old days, the Libraries subscribed in print format. Then it moved to online-only access.
A few years ago, SAM changed its name to WebMD Scientific American Medicine. Soon after that, it changed its name again to ACP Medicine Online.

The Evolution : SAM > WebMD SAM > ACP Medicine Online

Through it all, Affinity Library Services has maintained access in one way or another to this valuable resource for high quality, peer-reviewed, current, evidence-based medical information and CMEs.

We currently have access to ACP Medicine Online with IP Authentication.
That means, NO username or password—just make sure you are at an Affinity computer (or using Remote Access) to get there.

Try it now : ACP Medicine Online


Want to find it again later?
Just type “acp” into the search box atop any Affinity Intranet Page. It should appear at the top of the results list.

Antique Wheelchair is Archival Acquisition

This antique wheelchair is over 100 years old. It belonged to Ms. Bertha (Wilhorn) Keip.

It was recently donated to the MMC Library Archives by her grand-daughter, Sue McIlraith. Sue is a Dietition who works for Affinity.

The wheelchair is currently on display in the Archival Reading Room at the MMC Library.

A Message from Affinity Library Services & The Print Shop

If you are in need of multiple copies or print jobs (more than 50 pages), please use the Affinity Print Shop.

Color MFDs are located in both the MMC and STE Health Science Libraries. They’ve become very popular places – and we are happy to see so many people using them. However, these machines are NOT designed for high volume duplication (no matter what Lanier says).

You’ll agree if you’ve ever :
Smelled an MFD overheat
Cleared multiple paper jams because the MFD is too hot
Gotten streaked pages (again) because it’s too hot
Had to explain to the 4 other people looking for their pages that they have to wait for that BIG job to finish
Waited for the MFD to reset color / toners, etc.
Filled a paper tray 3x in one hour (That’s 3 reams of paper, friends!)

By contrast, The Affinity Print Shop has the appropriate equipment, paper, and supplies for large print and copy jobs. It is also more cost effective for The Print Shop to fill these requests. In the interest of good stewardship, large print jobs should be sent to The Print Shop.

Time is of the essence!
The Affinity Print Shop has a fast turn-around time. You can email files to Print Shop Staff in the morning and potentially have your job delivered by the afternoon. You don’t have to send a paper copy of your original and wait for days for a reply. Mary Tyler and Heather Stenson offer fast and friendly service.

EBM Reviews Filter in Ovid Medline

Did you know … You can quickly and easily filter results from any of our Ovid Evidenced-Based Medicine (EBM) databases just by clicking on the “EBM Reviews” limit from the main search page in Ovid Medline.

Click here to see a screenshot.

Contact your Librarian, Michele Matucheski, with questions on how to use Medline or the EBM Resources. We’re here to help!

Old AudioDigest Tapes - Free to a Good Home

The MMC and STE Libraries have 1 year's worth of old AudioDigest tapes available for FREE. Although these tapes are too old to apply for CE credits, they do still offer a lot of good information for Physicians, PAs, Nurses, and other health professionals.

Subject areas include the following :
Urology, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Otolaryngology, Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Gastroenterology, Family Practice, Emergency Medicine, Anesthesiology.

Look for them on the book sale tables at each library this month.

Why are we giving them away?
--limited shelving space for audiovisuals
--CE credits are available only for 3 years since date of publication
--Our libraries emphasize the most up-to-date info, so we want to make room for more recent issues.
-- Newer editions are available on AudioCD and MP3 files that can be downloaded to your computer or MP3 player. Contact Michele Matucheski for more details on accessing recent AudioDigest MP3 files.