NC LIVE Medical

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NC LIVE Medical Health Sciences
ResourcesOnline Module 1Consumer Health

• Emily Vardell
• UNC-CH Health Sciences Library

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Welcome!

• Instructor Emily Vardell
• Logistics
• 90 minute class
• Please use the chat courteously
• Please log in to NC LIVE in a separate window
• Chat-based discussion follows each section
• Archived for public use

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Class Outline

• Introduction (10 mins)
• Guidelines for providing health information (15
  mins)
• Overview of NC LIVE consumer health resources (15
  mins)
• Health Source Consumer Edition Basic Searching
  (15 mins)
• Health Source Consumer Edition Advanced
  Searching (15 mins)
• Wrap-up (10 mins)

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Introductions

• Please use the chat to introduce yourself
  briefly
• Name
• Institution
• Your most memorable health reference question
• Emily will respond orally to questions, etc.

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Class Outline

• Introduction (10 mins)
• Guidelines for providing health information (15
  mins)
• Overview of NC LIVE consumer health resources (15
  mins)
• Health Source Consumer Edition Basic Searching
  (15 mins)
• Health Source Consumer Edition Advanced
  Searching (15 mins)
• Wrap-up (10 mins)

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Guidelines for Providing Health Information

• http//library.uchc.edu/departm/hnet/
• guidelines.html
• Founded on standard reference practices
• Take into account privacy, specialized nature of
  medical information

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Guidelines (1-3)

• Determine why the person needs the information
• Be aware of the person asking the question
• Get as much information as possible

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Guidelines (4-7)

• Always check terms in a medical dictionary
• Do not provide a diagnosis
• Do not interpret medical information
• Do not give medical advice, opinion, or make
  recommendations

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Guidelines (8-10)

• Understand that the specific information the
  person wants may not be available in the medical
  literature
• Provide the most complete information needed to
  answer the persons specific request
• Provide referrals

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What do you think?

• Lets talk about these guidelines via the chat
• How do you feel about providing health info?
• Where is the line between advice and information?
• When do you send a person to his/her doctor vs.
  when do you find information for the person?

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Class Outline

• Introduction
• Guidelines for providing health information (15
  mins)
• Overview of NC LIVE consumer health resources (15
  mins)
• Health Source Consumer Edition Basic Searching
  (15 mins)
• Health Source Consumer Edition Advanced
  Searching (15 mins)
• Wrap-up (10 mins)

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Getting Started

• http//www.nclive.org (or however you link to NC
  LIVE)

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Getting Started
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NC Health Resources

• HealthLink Plus

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NC Health Resources

• NC Health Info

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NC Health Resources

• Public Health Division of NC DHHS

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NC Health Resources

• NC State Center for Health Statistics

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Federal Government Resources

• Centers for Disease Control Prevention

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Federal Government Resources

• HealthFinder

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Federal Government Resources

• MedlinePlus

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Federal Government Resources

• National Womens Health Information Center

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Non-Governmental Resources

• HIV InSite

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Non-Governmental Resources

• Mayo Clinic Health Oasis

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Non-Governmental Resources

• Medem Medical Library

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Literature Databases

• Health Source Consumer Edition
• Other literature databases are available
• Tend to be more scholarly
• Not all contain full-text

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What do you think?

• Lets take a minute to play with some of these
  resources. Open a new to you resource in NC
  LIVE and practice in it for a few minutes. Well
  discuss the following in chat
• What did you like about this resource?
• What didnt you like as much?
• Would you use this in the future?

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Class Outline

• Introduction (10 mins)
• Guidelines for providing health information (15
  mins)
• Overview of NC LIVE consumer health resources (15
  mins)
• Health Source Consumer Edition Basic Searching
  (15 mins)
• Health Source Consumer Edition Advanced
  Searching (15 mins)
• Wrap-up (10 mins)

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Health Source Consumer Edition

• Subject is health, focus is nonprofessionals
• Mixture of scholarly journals, trade magazines,
  and popular magazines
• Lots of full-text
• Can email results (including full-text)
• Can cross-search with other EBSCO databases

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Why Health Source Consumer Edition? Why Not
Google?

• Articles are from published sources
• Can limit to scholarly articles
• Can limit to full text articles
• Ability to cross-search other databases
• Regularly updated

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Basic Searching

• Advanced search
• Allows Boolean, stemming/wildcards
• Search by field
• No true controlled vocabulary
• Results list
• Limit by type of publication
• Limit by subjects
• View brief record, HTML/PDF if available

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Basic Record

• Citation information (hyperlinked!)
• Subject terms (hyperlinked! Not controlled!)
• Abstract
• Easily switch between citation full text
• Find More Like This keyword search using
  subject terms
• DEMO!

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Saving to Folder
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Lets Practice

• You have a patron who is concerned that
  vaccinating her son will increase his risk for
  autism and wants more information before making
  any decisions.
• Do a basic search in Health Source Consumer
  Edition to find some resources that would be
  helpful for her, and report your findings back to
  the class.

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Class Outline

• Introduction
• Guidelines for providing health information (15
  mins)
• Overview of NC LIVE consumer health resources (15
  mins)
• Health Source Consumer Edition Basic Searching
  (15 mins)
• Health Source Consumer Edition Advanced
  Searching (15 mins)
• Wrap-up (10 mins)

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Limiting Results

• Advanced Search tab
• Limits are very basic
• Full text
• Scholarly journals
• Publication type
• Publication
• Dates

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Combining Searches

• Standard EBSCO set searching
• Each search run shows as an entry
• Includes search terms, limits (if applicable),
  database used, results, etc.
• Combine to current search using AND, OR, NOT

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Publications

• Top-level button on blue navigation bar
• Browse by first word in title (alpha),
  subject/description, or any word in title
• Results hyperlink to further info about
  publication, holdings, full text availability

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Cross-searching EBSCO Databases
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Cross-searching EBSCO Databases
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Lets Practice

• A patron has come to you with this question
• I want to have my teeth bleached. What are the
  different procedures for this, how much do they
  cost, and are they effective? Are there side
  effects?
• Do an advanced search in Health Source Consumer
  Edition to find articles that will help your
  patron. Report your findings via chat.

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Class Outline

• Introduction
• Guidelines for providing health information (15
  mins)
• Overview of NC LIVE consumer health resources (15
  mins)
• Health Source Consumer Edition Basic Searching
  (15 mins)
• Health Source Consumer Edition Advanced
  Searching (15 mins)
• Wrap-up (10 mins)

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What Have We Learned?

• Medical/health reference is similar to regular
  reference
• Be aware of your limitations the persons
  privacy
• NC LIVE has a mix of consumer health resources,
  including full-text articles
• Health Source Consumer Edition is a good
  literature database for consumer health

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What Else Did We Learn?

• Health Source Consumer Edition is a basic EBSCO
  database
• Limits include date, publication, format
• Can combine and revisit searches
• Can store articles in a folder temporarily and to
  email/save/print
• Can cross-search with other EBSCO databases

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Further Questions

• What didnt we talk about?
• What do you want to know more about?
• Where do you see these resources as useful?
• Please use the chat to discuss!

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Thank You!

• Please fill out the online State Library of NC
  course evaluation at https//www.formrouter.net/f
  orms_at_SLNC/evaluation.htm
• Feel free to visit http//www.hsl.unc.edu/Services
  / Tutorials/NCLive/online.htm to see the archived
  version of this class, information on upcoming
  classes, and handouts.