By Rebecca | Published:
December 22, 2008
Last Thursday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released Nursing Home Compare. This rating system has detailed information about every Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing home in the country. Users can access the Five-Star Quality Ratings which are based on health inspections, staffing, and quality measures.
Nursing Home Compare has earned both praise and criticism from [...]
By Rebecca | Published:
December 19, 2008
ETHXWeb is a free database created and maintained by Georgetown University’s National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature. It has journal and news articles, book chapters, and laws related to bioethics and professional ethics. ETHXWeb will have citations that CINAHL and PubMed will not have and give you a different perspective.
Another free database, GenETHX, has citations [...]
By jillbarr | Published:
December 19, 2008
Impending winter break brings
Less library hours.
Kindly observe these changes.
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LHS-U hours for the next two weeks are as follows:
Friday, December 19th: 8:30am- 4:30 pm
Saturday, December 20th & Sunday, December 21st: CLOSED
Monday, December 22nd & Tuesday, December 23rd: 8:30 am- 4:30 pm
Wednesday, December 24th- Sunday, January 4th: CLOSED
Monday, January 5th- Friday, January 9th: 8:30 am- 5:00 pm
Saturday, [...]
By Rebecca | Published:
December 17, 2008
MedSun (Medical Product Safety Network) serves an an educational resource for the health care community about problems with medical device usage. Launched in 2002, MedSun has over 350 health care facilities in its network which are required to report adverse medical device problems. The website summarizes medical device problems and provides educational materials. MedSun also [...]
By Rebecca | Published:
December 15, 2008
Looking for another resource to use when doing research on minorities? Try the Minority Health Archive. This free database of almost 1,000 records has citations of journal articles, books, book chapters, and government documents on the following minority groups: Blacks/African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders. This resource was created as a [...]
By Rebecca | Published:
December 12, 2008
Academic.edu is a free networking website for faculty and grad students. Its goal is to have academics from all over the world on this website. So far, over 20,000 people have joined.
Connections are displayed in a tree format, starting with the university, department, faculty, and grad student. It allows the researchers to create their [...]
By jillbarr | Published:
December 10, 2008
It’s finals time and the Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana will be open extended hours this week and next week.
LHS-U will be open:
Friday, December 12th from 8:30 am to 8:00 pm
Saturday, December 13th from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm
Sunday, December 14th from 1:00 pm to 12:00 am
Monday, December 15th- Thursday, December 18th from 7:00 am- [...]
By Rebecca | Published:
December 8, 2008
qUICsearch allows you to search multiple library databases at the same time. You can select what category of databases you would like to search or select individual databases. You can also include searching the catalog and limit your search to particular years.
When should you use qUICsearch? Use it as a starting point for your research, [...]
By Rebecca | Published:
December 5, 2008
Excelencia Clinica is search engine based on the TRIP database, an evidence-based resource. It was created from a collaboration between the Spanish Ministry of Health, the Iberoamerican Cochane Center, and TRIP. There are materials in both English and Spanish and it can be searched in either language.
By Rebecca | Published:
December 3, 2008
RefGrab-It is a feature of RefWorks which allows you to import bibliographic information from websites into RefWorks. It will also include additional information from other websites if there is an RSS feed, ISBN number, PubMed ID or DOI on the website.
RefGrab-It must be added to your internet browser. It is compatible with both Windows and [...]