PubMed Advanced Search Page Updated

On December 12th, 2011, PubMed updated its Advanced Search feature to provide users with a more intuitive interface for multiple-term searching. The new design allows searchers to select fields from a drop-down box and combine terms in a single step rather than relying on the search history. For more information, please read the National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin article here: PubMed Advanced Search Page Updated, and feel free to give me a call at ext. 6272 if you would like assistance with PubMed searching.

Get to know…Essential Evidence Plus

WHAT IS IT?

Essential Evidence Plus, published by Wiley Blackwell is a clinical point-of-care tool providing access to over 13,000 evidence-based, synthesized topics with links to other supporting resources. Essential Evidence Plus is available through the Georgia Interactive Network for Medical Information (GaIN) provided at Mercer University Libraries and to the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and the College of Nursing.

Essential Evidence Plus is an intuitive search engine providing access to multiple unique and linked databases. The main point of entry into Essential Evidence Plus is the Topics database that includes entries on common clinical questions about diseases and symptoms and drugs and other treatments. Each concise author-attributed article includes an Overall Bottom Line summary and a strength of evidence rating in addition to links to calculators, Cochrane Systematic Reviews, practice guidelines and many full text references.

WHAT’S IT GOT?

Other databases included within Essential Evidence Plus include:

Cochrane Systematic Reviews -- abstracts of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (with hyperlink to the full text) which is considered by most experts to be the gold standard of evidence on the effectiveness of more than 3o00 therapeutic interventions.

Decision Support Tools -- decision support tools and calculators to aid in treatment and diagnosis.

Diagnostic Test Calculators -- calculators that help choose the best diagnostic test for a specified condition and interpret the result. Most calculators include sensitivity and specificity of the test.

EBMG Guidelines -- evidence-based practice guidelines for symptoms and diseases.

EBMG Evidence Summaries -- descriptions of the scientific evidence underlying specific treatment recommendations.

History and Physical Calculators -- calculators that help determine the likelihood of a patient having a disease based on information gathered during history and physical exam.

NGC Practice Guidelines -- evidence-based guidelines from the National Guidelines Clearinghouse, part of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality under the US Department of Health and Human Services.

POEMs Research Summaries -- Critically appraised synopses of new evidence emerging from continuous review, grading, and critical appraisal of more than 3000 studies published monthly in over 100 core health-care related journals.

BOTTOM LINE

Although much of the evidence content of Essential Evidence Plus can be gathered from other resources provided by Mercer University including Dynamed, The Cochrane Library and PubMed, Essential Evidence Plus compiles a variety of sources to bring evidence, tools and guidelines together in an easy to use interface that includes quick summaries and weighted evidence evaluations.

WANT MORE HELP?

Essential Evidence Plus provides extensive search tutorials linked from the Support tab on the main search page.

You may also contact me for assistance with this resource and any other research inquiry.
Hannah Rogers -- Librarian Liaison to the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
678 547 6272
rogers_hk@mercer.edu

2011 GALILEO Annual User Survey

The annual GALILEO user survey will start Monday, November 7, and this year’s incentive is an iPad drawing. An iPad will be awarded in a random drawing of survey respondents. In addition to the drawing, the survey gives users an opportunity to relate their experience with GALILEO and to share their ideas for the future.

Go here: http://galileo2011.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey to take the survey.

Effective Dec. 31st, 2011

MD Consult (available to you as part of your GaIN membership) will no longer include the following journals: Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Back issues will be removed as well. However, they are adding Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Journal of Critical Care, Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, and Pediatric Respiratory Reviews, including back issues.

For those of you running mobileMicromedex Calculator product on Palm or PocketPC...

mobileMicromedex Availability Notice

Because Micromedex now offers more robust mobile options, Micromedex 2.0 web-based mobile will replace the mobileMicromedex Calculator product on Palm and Pocket PC. As of November 30, 2011, Calculators on Palm and Pocket PC will no longer be available. Micromedex 2.0 web-based mobile access – including Calculators With web-based access you have the value of your facility’s Micromedex subscription, delivered via the device’s web browser allowing you to automatically connect anywhere you have an internet connection (cellular or WiFi). Micromedex 2.0 web-based access includes the same expert-reviewed, evidence-based drug information that you get on your desktop and now you have access on market-leading mobile operating systems: Apple® iOS versions 3.X and above. You also get the added benefit of having Micromedex 2.0 optimized for use on an iPad™. Android™ OS versions 2.1 and above. Blackberry® using the Opera Mini browser version 4.2. Support for Blackberry OS 6 is coming. Online support: http://www.micromedex.com/support/request/ New on device applications Additionally, we have expanded your mobile access to include on device apps that allow you to access the same, trusted content in Micromedex 2.0 with the added ease-of-use that comes with mobile apps. An internet connection is not required, so you can find answers anytime, anywhere. Micromedex Drug Information - FREE Access summary drug information (DrugPoints) on Apple iOS versions 3.X and above. Support for Android OS 2.2 and above is coming in August. Micromedex Drug Interactions – FREE with your Micromedex subscription Access drug-drug interactions on Apple iOS versions 3.X and above. Support for Android OS 2.2 and above is coming soon. Micromedex IV Compatibility (coming soon) - FREE with an IV INDEX subscription Access Solution, Y-Site and Admixture compatibility information on Apple iOS is coming soon. Support for Android is coming later this year. To access the Micromedex Drug Information app simply download the app from the Apple iTunes® App Store or theAndroid Market. Micromedex Drug Interactions and Micromedex IV Compatibility require a password that can be found on the MOBILE (or handheld PDA) link in Micromedex. Follow the instructions on the MOBILE (handheld PDA) page to download these apps.

Announcing the 2010 Facts & Comparisons Enhancement Scholarship

As part of the Facts & Comparisons Academic Partnership Program your Pharm.D. students are exclusively eligible to apply for the Facts & Comparisons Enhancement Scholarship. (To be eligible, students must be attending a school, such as yours, that participates in the Facts & Comparisons Academic Partnership Program.)

This scholarship will provide $5,000 in the form of a one-time tuition reimbursement to one Pharm.D. student nationwide, who has submitted an innovative product enhancement idea for Facts & Comparisons® eAnswers online (formerly know as eFacts/Facts & Comparisons 4.0). Additional details are included within the scholarship application form.

Submission Deadline:
11:00 PM CST
Sunday October 23, 2011

For more information please visit the Facts and Comparisons Academic Communities Web site:

http://www.factsandcomparisons.com/academic-communities.aspx

New Books for COPHS @ Swilley

The following titles are now available at the Swilley Library for checkout:

BF727.P57 U53 2009
Understanding psychosocial adjustment to chronic illness and disability : a handbook for evidence-based practitioners in rehabilitation / editors, Fong Chan, Elizabeth da Silva Cardoso, Julie AChronister
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663289

QA47 .M315 2003
CRC standard mathematical tables and formulae / [editor-in-chief,] Daniel Zwillinger
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663152

QC176.8.N35 M653 2010
Molecular encapsulation : organic reactions in constrained systems / editors, Udo HBrinker, Jean-Luc Mieusset
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663253

QD257.7 .H33 2010
Handbook of aqueous solubility data / Samuel HYalkowsky, Yan He, Parijat Jain.
Yalkowsky, Samuel H(Samuel Hyman), 1942-

http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663177

QD272.S6 H47 2008
Spectroscopic methods in organic chemistry / Manfred Hesse, Herbert Meier, Bernd Zeeh ; translated by Richard Dunmar, Martin Murray
Hesse, Manfred, 1935-
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663284

QD549 .C635 2010
Colloids in drug delivery / edited by Monzer Fanun
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663147

QP310.W3 W45 2007
Gait analysis : an introduction / Michael WWhittle
Whittle, Michael
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663172

QP552.G16 F86 2009
Functional selectivity of G protein-coupled receptor ligands : new opportunities for drug discovery / edited by Kim ANeve
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663170

QP552.G16 G1747 2011
G protein-coupled receptors : structure, signaling, and physiology / edited by Sandra Siehler, Graeme Milligan
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663171

QP702.C5 C45 2011
Chitin, chitosan, oligosaccharides and their derivatives : biological activities and applications / edited by Se-Kwon Kim
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663145

QP801.B69 B575 2010
Biopolymers : lignin, proteins, bioactive nanocomposites / volume editors Akihiro Abe, Karel Du{233}sek, Shiro Kobayashi ; with contributions by S
Blazewicz ..[et al.]
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663140

QR181 .P335 2009
The immune system / Peter Parham
Parham, P(Peter), 1950-
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663182

R726.8 .S4755 2009
If that ever happens to me : making life and death decisions after Terri Schiavo
/ Lois Shepherd
Shepherd, Lois L., 1962-
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663181

R857.N34 N328 2010
Nanobiophotonics / edited by Gabriel Popescu
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663258

R857.P6 P65 2010
Polymer-based nanostructures : medical applications / edited by Pavel Broz
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663273

RA409 .D87 2009
Basic statistics : a primer for the biomedical sciences / Olive Jean Dunn,
Virginia AClark
Dunn, Olive Jean
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663135

RA418.5.T73 M855 2006
Multicultural medicine and health disparities / [edited by] David Satcher,
Rubens JPamies ; contributing editor, Nancy NWoelfl
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663255

RA440.5 .H63 2011
Assessment and planning in health programs / Bonni CHodges ; with Donna M
Videto
Hodges, Bonni C
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663134

RA448.5.N4 H3634 2010
Handbook of African American health / edited by Robert LHampton, Thomas P
Gullotta, Raymond LCrowel
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663176

RA448.5.N4 H395 2009
Health issues in the black community / [edited by] Ronald LBraithwaite, Sandra
E Taylor, and Henrie MTreadwell
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663179

RA643 .V33 2009
Vaccines for biodefense and emerging and neglected diseases / edited by Alan
D.TBarrett, Lawrence RStanberry
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663290

RB111 .G66 2009
Pathology : implications for the physical therapist / Catherine Cavallaro
Goodman, Kenda SFuller
Goodman, Catherine Cavallaro
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663264

RC46 .E88 2008
Essentials of family medicine / [edited by] Philip DSloane ..[et al.]
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663162

RC262 .C36 2010
Cancer nanotechnology : methods and protocols / edited by Stephen RGrobmyer
and Brij MMoudgil
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663143

RC270.8 .P43 2009
Pharmaceutical perspectives of cancer therapeutics / Yi Lu, Ram IMahato,
editors
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663266

RC341 .L86 2007
Neuroscience : fundamentals for rehabilitation / Laurie Lundy-Ekman
Lundy-Ekman, Laurie
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663259

RC376.5 .S24 2002
Diagnosis and treatment of movement impairment syndromes / Shirley Sahrmann
Sahrmann, Shirley
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663155

RC406.H45 D38 2000
Steps to follow : the comprehensive treatment of patients with hemiplegia /
Patricia MDavies ; with a foreword by J{232}urg Kesselring
Davies, Patricia M
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663285

RC702 .D48 2010
Cardiovascular and pulmonary physical therapy : an evidence-based approach /
William EDeTurk, Lawrence PCahalin
DeTurk, William E
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663144

RC925 .I73 2007
Orthopedic rehabilitation, assessment, and enablement / David Ip
Ip, David
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1657651

RC925.5 .M89 2004
Musculoskeletal physiotherapy : clinical science and evidence-based practice /
edited by Kathryn MRefshauge and Elizabeth MGass ; foreword by Lance Twomey.
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1657642

RC925.7 .H38 2010
Special tests in musculoskeletal examination : an evidence-based guide for
clinicians / written by Paul Hattam and Alison Smeatham
Hattam, Paul
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663283

RC927 .R4836 2010
Rheumatology : evidence-based practice for physiotherapists and occupational
therapists / edited by Krysia Dziedzic and Alison Hammond
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663280

RC953.8.P58 G47 2000
Geriatric physical therapy / edited by Andrew AGuccione
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663173

RD97 .P49 2004
Physical rehabilitation of the injured athlete / [edited by] James RAndrews,
Gary LHarrelson, Kevin EWilk
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663268

RD557.5 .S56 2006
Shoulder rehabilitation : non-operative treatment / [edited by] Todd S
Ellenbecker
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663282

RD736.P47 R44 2007
Rehabilitation for the postsurgical orthopedic patient / edited by Lisa Maxey,
Jim Magnusson
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663278

RD771.B217 B55 2006
The biomechanics of back pain / Michael AAdams ..[et al.]
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663139

RD798 .B76 2006
A manual therapist's guide to movement : teaching motor skills to the
orthopaedic patient / Gordon Browne ; foreword by Darlene Hertling
Browne, Gordon
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663184

RG129.P45 O18 2000
Obstetric and gynecologic care in physical therapy / Rebecca GStephenson,
Linda JO'Connor
Stephenson, Rebecca G(Rebecca Gourley)
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663262

RJ496.C4 M55 2007
Physical therapy of cerebral palsy / [edited by] Freeman Miller ; illustrations
by Erin Browne
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663270

RM281 .V32 2002
Vaccine delivery strategies / edited by Guido Dietrich, Werner Goebel
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663292

RM300 .P5196 2009
Pharmacology for the physical therapist / Peter CPanus ..[et al.]
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663267

RM301.25 .F72 2006
Fragment-based approaches in drug discovery / edited by Wolfgang Jahnke and
Daniel AErlanson
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b16631687

RM301.55 .T47
The biochemistry of drug metabolism / Bernard Testa, Stefanie-Dorothea
Kr{232}amer Testa, Bernard
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663136

RM301.63 .T365 2010
Targeted delivery of small and macromolecular drugs / edited by Ajit SNarang,
Ram IMahato
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663287

RM315 .S72 2009
Foundations in behavioral pharmacology : an introduction to the neuroscience of
drug addiction and mental disorders / Mark Stanford
Stanford, Mark
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1665860

RM332 .N49 2010
Next generation antidepressants : moving beyond monoamines to discover novel
treatment strategies for mood disorders / edited by Chad EBeyer and Stephen M.
Stahl
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663261

RM411 .C66 2008
Combating the threat of pandemic influenza : drug discovery approaches / edited
by Paul FTorrence
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663148

RM666.H33 M8 2009
Meyler's side effects of herbal medicines / editor, J.KAronson
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663187

RM666.M513 D33 2009
Metals in medicine / James CDabrowiak
Dabrowiak, James C
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663185

RM666.P835 T54 2008
Therapeutic microbiology : probiotics and related strategies / edited by James
Versalovic, Michael Wilson
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663288

RM700 .H65 2008
Flexibility : a concise guide : to conditioning, performance enhancement, injury
prevention, and rehabilitation / Laurence EHolt, Thomas WPelham, Jason Holt.
Holt, Laurence E
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663166

RM701 .D48 2008
Complementary therapies for physical therapy : a clinical decision-making
approach / Judith EDeutsch and Ellen Zambo Anderson
Deutsch, Judith E(Judith Erica), 1959-
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663149

RM701 .G658 2007
Differential diagnosis for physical therapists : screening for referral /
Catherine Cavallaro Goodman, Teresa EKelly Snyder
Goodman, Catherine Cavallaro
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663156

RM701 .O88 2010
Improving functional outcomes in physical rehabilitation / Susan BO'Sullivan,
Thomas JSchmitz
O'Sullivan, Susan B
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663183

RM701 .W66 2010
Women's health in physical therapy / [edited by] Jean MIrion, Glenn LIrion
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663293

RM705 .G334 2011
Physical therapy ethics / Donald LGabard, Mike WMartin
Gabard, Donald L., 1946-
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663269

RM705 .S85 2005
Professionalism in physical therapy : history, practice & development / Laura
Lee Swisher, Catherine GPage
Swisher, Laura Lee
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663274

RM724 .M34 2008
The myofascial release manual / Carol JManheim
Manheim, Carol J
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663257

RM724 .M63 2005
Grieve's modern manual therapy : the vertebral column / edited by Jeffrey D
Boyling, Gwendolen AJull ; foreword by Lance TTwomey
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663175

RM930 .D66 2005
Rehabilitation research : principles and applications / Elizabeth Domholdt
Domholdt, Elizabeth, 1958-
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663279

RM930.5.U6 R33 2010
Race, culture, and disability : rehabilitation science and practice / edited by
Fabricio EBalcazar ..[et al.]
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663277

RS189.5.H54 H69 2007
HPLC method development for pharmaceuticals / edited by Satinder Ahuja, Henrik
Rasmussen
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663180

RS192 .O74 2010
Organelle-specific pharmaceutical nanotechnology / edited by Volkmar Weissig,
Gerard G.MD'Souza
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663263

RS201.N35 M853 2008
Multifunctional pharmaceutical nanocarriers / Vladimir Torchilin, editor
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663256

RS201.S6 J68 2010
Handbook of solubility data for pharmaceuticals / Abolghasem Jouyban
Jouyban, Abolghasem
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663178

RS419.5 .M38 2005
Applying genomic and proteomic microarray technology in drug discovery / Robert
SMatson
Matson, Robert S
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663133

T174.7 .A53 2008
Advances in nanotechnology and applicationsVolume 1 / editors, Yashwant V
Pathak & Hieu TTran
Annual nanotechnology symposium (1st : 2008 : Louisville, Ky.)
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1665866

TD196.D78 G74 2010
Green and sustainable pharmacy / Klaus Kummerer, Maximilian Hempel, editors
http://library.mercer.edu/record=b1663174