MD CONSULT

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MD CONSULT

• K. Alix Hayden, PhD(c)
• Liaison Librarian for Nursing and Kinesiology
• University of Calgary

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What is MD Consult?

• Web-based online database/service which provides
  full-text access to medical textbooks and medical
  journal articles
• MD Consult
• answers clinical questions
• provides knowledge at the point of care
• helps keep practitioners up-to-date with the
  latest in medicine.

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What does MD Consult include?

• MD Consult clinical content includes
• key medical database searching including MEDLINE
• 35 leading medical books,
• full-text access to 52 of the world's best
  medical journals and Clinics of North America
• drug information (Mosbys GenRx) for more than
  30,000 medications
• over 600 practice guidelines
• nearly 3,000 customizable patient handouts
• and more!

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Accessing MD Consult

• Generic vs Personal Edition
• Generic provides limited services
• Personal edition includes everything in Generic
  plus
• CME Center
• Customizable patient education handouts
• Today in Medicine - customizable daily summaries
• Drug updates
• Remembers your literature searches

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Accessing MD ConsultPersonal Edition

• To access Personal Edition
• Get a Personal Account (free)
• Do NOT use your email password

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Arrangement

• MD Consult is designed to provide two services to
  researchers and practitioners
• Stay up-to-date with the latest in medicine
• Answer clinical questions

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Stay Up-To-Date

• Today in Medicine
• Daily updates of the newest medical developments,
  which include
• General interest
• Personal interest (customizable to your own
  research interests)
• Other specialties
• Can view last seven days, since last visit, and
  new today

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Stay Up-To-Date

• Today in Medicine continued
• Provides
• concise reviews of key articles published in all
  major journals
• highlights of important conferences
• special reports
• other announcements

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Stay Up-To-Date

• What Patients are Reading
• Canvasses popular literature (including print and
  television)
• e.g. provides review of last episode of ER
• Provides links to peer-reviewed articles (often
  full-text), chapters in reference books, drugs
  and other resources, for each summary

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Stay Up-To-Date

• In This Weeks Journals
• Includes key contents and summaries from current
  influential medical journals
• JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet,
  BMJ, Annals of Internal Medicine, other featured
  journals

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Stay Up-To-Date

• Clinical Topic Tours
• Provides collections of information on timely and
  current opinion-type topics
• Each collection may include practice guidelines,
  journal articles, book chapters
• New topic added each week archive of over 60
  clinical topic tours

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Stay Up-To-Date

• Drug Updates
• Includes
• Drugs in the News
• Newest FDA Approvals
• Safety Notices
• Newly Approved Indications
• Other FDA Approvals
• Updated daily

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Stay Up-To-Date

• CME Center
• Provides one of the largest collections of online
  CME materials
• 300 Category 1 CME modules
• New modules added each month with most recent
  listed first

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Answer Clinical Questions

• Includes
• Reference books
• Journal search
• Drug information
• Clinical practice guidelines
• Patient education handouts

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Answer Clinical Questions

• Using Answer Clinical Questions
• Patient with non-ulcer dyspepsia, and you want
  background information on Helicobacter pylori

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Answer Clinical Questions

• Reference Books
• Includes 37 bibles in medicine
• Choose a specific book
• Review table of contents/index
• Connect to specific parts of chapter
• Search all books
• Be general in keywords
• Books with the most coverage appear at top of
  result list
• Book index shows only sections related to search
  topic
• Click link to retrieve related sections
• Search term highlighted in red for quick scanning

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Answer Clinical Questions

• Reference Books continued
• Numbered references in text are hyperlinks to
  citation
• Figures appear as small sized images can be
  enlarged by clicking
• The arrows at the top and bottom of the page,
  turn the pages for you
• To select a new book, click on Last Results

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Answer Clinical Questions

• Journal Search
• Full-text of over 50 clinical journals and
  Clinics of North America series
• Choose Journal Literature
• Term from previous search automatically displayed
• Be more specific with keyword searching
• Searches MEDLINE, AIDSLINE, HealthSTAR, and
  CANCERLIT

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Answer Clinical Questions

• Journal Search continued
• Icons indicate
• abstract, full-text, review, Cochrane
• MDC Extra - article citations not available in
  MEDLINE
• Year Book - notes significant article. Expert
  commentary is including, illuminating key aspects
  of each article
• Arranged with full-text articles first

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Answer Clinical Questions

• Journal Search continued
• Select article of interest (either title link or
  full-text icon)
• Search terms highlighted in red
• Table of Contents facilitates easy navigation of
  the article
• Print using browser print function

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Answer Clinical Questions

• Journal Search continued
• To return to article list, click Last Results
  button from top menu
• To further the search, click Find More Articles
  Like This
• Author search
• Click Search to conduct another search or modify
  your search terms

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Answer Clinical Questions

• Drug Information
• Choose Drugs from top menu
• Searching
• Can browse Table of Contents by categorye.g. US
  Drugs, proleukinbrowse detailed Table of
  Contents
• Search for keyword e.g. meningococcal
  meningitisbrowse detailed Table of Contents

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Answer Clinical Questions

• Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Over 600 full-text guidelines
• Arranged by
• Authoring Organization (e.g. American Academy of
  Pediatrics)
• Specialty (e.g. Pediatrics)
• Topic (e.g. Breast Feeding)
• Search for specific topic (e.g. obesity)
• Searches guidelines as well as MEDLINE, AIDSLINE,
  HealthSTAR, and CANCERLIT
• Expand search - journal articles on this topic

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Answer Clinical Questions

• Patient Education Handouts
• Full-text patient handouts
• Arranged by
• All topics (e.g. Alt Health, flaxseed)
• Conditions and Treatments by Category (e.g.
  Pediatrics, meningitisl)
• Customize handouts
• Edit header (or use customize button on top menu)
• Add special instructions
• Print using browser print function
• Search by keyword (e.g. meningitis)

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Answer Clinical Questions

• Search All MD Consult
• Search all parts of MD Consult simultaneously
  including
• clinical answers
• stay up-to-date
• Arranges results by area, indicating number of
  hits
• Reference Books
• Journal Literature
• Practice Guidelines
• Patient Education
• Drug Information
• All Update Areas