Thursday, March 29, 2007

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.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

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.)

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

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 …