Where's the Good Stuff? HIGH QUALITY HEALTH RESOURCES MADE EASY Indiana Library Federation 2015...

Where's the Good Stuff?

HIGH QUALITY HEALTH RESOURCES MADE EASY

Indiana Library Federation 2015 Conference

Indianapolis, INNovember 18, 2015

Carol BeanTechnology CoordinatorNN/LM Greater Midwest Regionhttps://nnlm.gov/gmr

Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips (law firm): Law Librarian

Palm Beach County Library System: Computer Center Manager

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit: Technology Librarian

U. S. Department of State: Information Resource OfficerNN/LM GMR

(National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region): Technology Coordinator

A Little Background (AKA Introduction)

National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)

• 8 regions• Coordinated by the National

Library of Medicine (NLM)

Mission:

Advance the progress of medicine and improve the public health by:

1. providing all U.S. health professionals equal access to biomedical information and

2. improving the public's access to information, enabling them to make informed decisions about their health and healthcare.

National Network of Libraries of Medicine® Fact Sheet https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/nnlm.html.

Focus:

Work with health professionals and librarians to provide quality health information

Expand health literacy and awareness

Greater Midwest Region (GMR)

In a nutshell, we:

Improve health by connecting people, health practitioners, and researchers to information through communication and collaboration.

Our Goal: Getting High Quality Health Information

to the Public

Improving the public's access to information enables them to make informed decisions about their health and healthcare.

Improving the public’s access to high quality information enables them to make the best decisions about their health and healthcare.

Public libraries are “first responders” in providing public access to information.

Who are you?

• Public

• K-12

• Academic

• Other/Special

Public Libraries: Consumer Health and Beyond

Realities of Health Care today:

• Patients are now asked to make decisions about their own disease process.• Most patients do not have the tools to make these kinds of

decisions

Where do people go before going to the library for health information?• Doctors, Nurses, Physician’s Assistants• Family, Friends• TV• Magazines• Dr. Oz

Pew Internet Study –September 2012 – 77% online health seekers began search at search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo

Health LiteracyThe degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions

One out of ? American adults reads at the 5th grade level or below

one out of 5

The average American reads at the 8th to 9th grade level, and most health care materials are written above ? level

the 10th grade

How are you at translating?

Sick lick vomitingCyclic vomiting

Vascular urethral refluxVesicoureteral reflux

Dropped BladderCystocele

Bavarian Enema

Which of these requests have you NOT heard?

Descriptions of particular procedures

Latest treatment for ….

“Everything” about …

The best doctor or hospital

Drug information

Herbal information

So where’s the good stuff for Consumer Health?

National Library of Medicine: www.nlm.nih.gov

Mmedline Plus home page

(medlineplus.gov)

NIHSeniorHealth home page

(nihseniorhealth.gov)

ClinicalTrials.gov home page

(http://clinicaltrials.gov)

NCCIH home page

(http://nccih.nih.gov)

Drug Info Portal NLM home page

(http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/drugportal.jsp)

Daily Med home page

(http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov)

Dietary Supplents home page

(http://www.dsld.nlm.nih.gov/dsld/)

Nursing Home Compare

http://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/ From the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Allows consumers to compare information about nursing homes

Links to Hospital Compare, Physician Compare, Dialysis Facility Compare, and more

K-12 Libraries: Curriculum and Lesson Plans

https://sis.nlm.nih.gov/outreach/k12.html

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/childrenspage.html

https://sis.nlm.nih.gov/

Academic Libraries: Supporting Health Sciences

Resources for Practitioners and Researchers◦ Specialized Information Services:

http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/ ◦ Disaster Information Management Research Center

(DIMRC): http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc.html ◦ WISER for emergency responders◦ Chemical and Drug Information:

http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemical.html ◦ Drug Information Portal: http

://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/ ◦ LactMed: http://lactmed.nlm.nih.gov/

MedGen

Focused on human medical genetics, especially the attributes of conditions with a genetic contribution

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/

Disease characteristics and clinical features

Links to professional guidelines, recent clinical studies, and systematic reviews

External links to PubMed, NIH Genetic Testing Registry (GTR), OMIM, and Genetics Home Reference (GHR)

New Databases

PubMed Health is a free resource focused on identifying clinical effectiveness research

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/

Includes◦ DARE Reviews◦ Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews◦ Health technology assessment (HTA) systematic reviews

New Interfaces Includes the EPA Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data for 2012

Interactive capabilities

Improved U.S. Census layers, availability by Census tract

Additional and updated dataset

http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/

Databases to Note Gene

◦ Integrates genetic information from a wide range of species

Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)◦ Includes animal testing

information

LiverTox http://livertox.nih.gov/◦ Clinical and research

information on drug-included liver injury

Household Products Database◦ 14,000 common household

products◦ Incorporates materials

standards data sheets

LactMed◦ Drugs and lactation

database – drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed

Other resources of note:National Institute on Aging

◦ http://www.nia.nih.gov◦ Free publications (English and Spanish)◦ Alzheimer’s Disease Education and

Referral Center (ADEAR)◦ Database of more than 300

national organizations that provide help to older adults.

Shameless Plug: What we do (all FREE):

Facilitate network members efforts in outreach*Education: train-the-trainer workshopsAwareness: exhibitsFunding of exhibits and projects*

*for network members

Education In-person and distance classes Sessions on varied topics Updates through Lake Effects, Tech Talks, and other venues Lending Library (for network members)

GMR Classes

http://nnlm.gov/gmr/training/classes http://nnlm.gov/gmr/training/online-ed Handouts: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/training/handouts

Exhibits

NLM Exhibition program:https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/about/exhibition/index.html

GMR Outreach:https://nnlm.gov/gmr/outreach

Questions?

Thank you for attending!

National Network of Libraries of MedicineGreater Midwest Region

(under contract with the University of Illinois at Chicago)1750 W. Polk Street, Suite 220

Chicago, IL 60612(800) 338-7657, press (1)

gmr4u@uic.eduhttps://nnlm.gov/gmr

Carol BeanTechnology Coordinatorgmrtech@uic.edu

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