Announcements and featured resources for Library Users of Ascension Wisconsin Health Intranets (including legacy Affinity/Ministry/Fox Valley, Columbia-St. Mary's, and Wheaton-Franciscan).
NEJM AI Grand Rounds, a new monthly podcast hosted by Arjun (Raj) Manrai, Ph.D., and Andrew Beam, Ph.D., features informal, expert conversations that explore deep issues at the intersection of artificial intelligence and medicine.
In the first episode, Stanford University professor and cardiologist Dr. Euan Ashley shares how his team is using artificial intelligence to prevent, predict, and beat disease.
Follow NEJM AI Grand Rounds on Apple, Spotify, Goog
The default option for remote access to AW Library Resources is via VPNs, however, that option may be problematic for some people.
If the Ascension regional / national VPNs are locking you out of AW Library resources, you are not alone. One possible solution is to use Citrix for remote access.
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| December 2022 See what your fellow nurses are reading! Browse this month's round-up of 10 top articles from Lippincott's prestigious list of nursing journals. |
Reprinted from: ChemIDplus and the Drug Information Portal Content Available From PubChem Only Starting December 2022. NLM Tech Bull. 2022 Jul-Aug;(447):e2.
On December 12, 2022, PubChem will serve as NLM's single source for chemical information. NLM is retiring ChemIDplus and the Drug Information Portal, two other chemical property information sites, to better focus our development efforts on a single, integrated source of chemical information. All of the data found in ChemIDplus and the Drug Information Portal is currently available and will continue to be available in PubChem.
PubChem is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. A quick guide to finding ChemIDplus data on PubChem can be found at Accessing ChemIDplus Content from PubChem. In addition, About PubChem provides a wealth of information about using PubChem, including sections on:
A new self-paced PubChem tutorial (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/oet/ed/pubchem/tutorial/) is also available to guide users through the steps to access chemical property and structure data that hundreds of academic, government, and industrial sources contribute to PubChem. It includes step-by-step directions for how to find chemical information using chemical names, identifiers, molecular formulas, gene symbols, proteins, pathways, taxonomies, and structures.
New content will continue to be added to ChemIDplus and the Drug Information Portal until November 1, 2022. Both ChemIDplus and the Drug Information Portal will remain available until they are retired in mid-December 2022. The ChemIDplus data (which includes all of the data in the Drug Information Portal) is also available as a bulk download file through the NLM Data Distribution Program and will continue to be available after both sites are retired.
If you have any questions, please contact the NLM Support Center.
Being a Telepatient is a recent comic from Dr. Nathan Gray, meant to help patients prepare for telehealth visits. He includes 10 tips for making the most of your next virtual visit.
Bonus: It's short and easy-to-digest.
May be of interest to clinical staff or anyone invested in health literacy.
Question: Do we have access to Briggs Drugs in Pregnancy & Lactation?
Answer: Yes! We DO have current access to Briggs, through Lexicomp, Ascension's drug info database.
Rest assured that you are searching Briggs when you search Lexicomp. ;-)
Read on for info about how to search / browse Briggs by itself:
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Reprinted from: NLM Tech Bull. 2022 Nov-Dec;(449):e4. Posted 29 November 2022.
The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce that proximity search capabilities have been added to PubMed. Users can now search for multiple terms appearing in any order within a specified distance of one another in the [Title] or [Title/Abstract] fields.
To create a proximity search in PubMed, enter terms using the following format:
"search terms"[field:~N]
For example, to search PubMed for citations where the terms "hip" and "pain" appear with no more than two words between them in the Title/Abstract search field, try the search:
Search results may include hip pain, hip-related pain, hip joint pain, hip/groin pain, hip biomechanics and pain, pain after total hip arthroplasty, pain in right hip, and more.
See the PubMed User Guide and view the proximity searching tutorial for more examples and information about proximity searching in PubMed.
Proximity search adds another useful tool to your search toolkit. Searching for the same terms using a variety of techniques (e.g., combining terms with AND, searching for an exact phrase) and comparing the results can help you decide which option(s) to use. Proximity searching can be particularly helpful when searching for concepts that may be represented in multiple ways, or to capture variations of a phrase. For example, you may wish to find information about "healthcare rationing." The proximity search: "rationing healthcare"[tiab:~1] can retrieve citations where this concept appears as "healthcare rationing," "rationing of healthcare," "rationing strategies in healthcare," "rationing limited healthcare," and more.
There is no limit to the number of words you can search together with one proximity operator; however, the more words you include, the narrower your search becomes.
What N value to use will depend on your search. Try changing the N value and comparing the results to find what works best for your search.
A higher N value creates a broader, more comprehensive search; this will typically retrieve more results overall, but some of these results may be less relevant. Using the Boolean operator AND to combine terms may be more appropriate than proximity searching with a large N value.
A lower N value creates a narrower, more precise search; this will typically retrieve fewer results that are highly relevant but may exclude other relevant results.
If N=0, the quoted terms will appear next to each other--with no other words in between.
Yes, proximity searches can be combined with other search terms using Boolean operators, for example:
"standard care"[tiab:~2] AND lung cancer
Multiple proximity searches can also be combined using Booleans within one query, for example:
"standard care"[tiab:~2] AND "hip arthroplasty"[tiab:~1]
No, the order your search terms appear in results cannot be specified in a proximity search in PubMed.
Proximity search is available only in the [Title] and [Title/Abstract] fields.
Yes, you can use the full search field tags [Title] and [Title/Abstract] or the abbreviated search field tags [ti] and [tiab] interchangeably.
Proximity searching is not compatible with truncation (*) in PubMed. If the double quoted terms in a proximity search include a wildcard (*), the proximity operator will be ignored.
Automatic Term Mapping is not applied to proximity searches.
You can combine a phrase search and a proximity search in the same query using Boolean operators; however, it is not possible to specify that an exact phrase appears within a certain distance to other terms.
For example, with the query "acute migraine treatment"[ti:~1] AND "pain management", the terms "acute," "migraine," and "treatment" will appear in the title with no more than one word between them, and the phrase "pain management" can appear anywhere in the record.
The highlighting feature in PubMed does not incorporate query syntax; it uses simple term matching to show words from your query highlighted in bold when those word(s) appear in the search results. Check the full abstract if you are searching in the Title/Abstract field and you don't see the terms from your proximity search highlighted together in the preview "snippet" shown in the summary search results display.
Please view the Proximity Searching tutorial, and see the PubMed User Guide for more information about proximity searching.
If you have questions or feedback about this new feature, please contact the Help Desk using the Help link available at the bottom of every page in PubMed.
Looking for something to read over the holidays? Siddhartha Mukherjee has a new book ...
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Mukherjee is an eminent oncologist and the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of
expansive study of the cell—the common denominator of all life—and its dizzying range
of types and functions. He studies neurons, the cells involved in reproduction,
and rampant cancers, and gestures toward a future in which cell engineering could
eradicate diseases and transform medicine. Cells are anything but simple structures;
rather, they’re sinuous ecosystems, and they come together at a dazzling scale in the
body. Blood, for example, is “a cosmos of cells. The restless ones: red blood cells …The healers: tiny platelets … The defenders, the discerners: B cells that make antibody
missiles; T cells, door-to-door wanderers that can detect even the whiff of an invader.”
Using that twirling prose, he braids history with science; we meet pivotal figures such as
the quirky Dutch autodidact Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (who first glimpsed what he called
“animalcules” through his microscope) and contemporary Nobel laureates ensconced
in their labs, testing gene-editing technologies. Understanding the cell is the key to an
age of personalized medicine, Mukherjee argues: Are we ready to embrace it?
Blurb from Seven Books that Will Make You Smarter, The Atlantic.
Find this book on Amazon.
| November 2022 See what your fellow nurses are reading! Browse this month's round-up of 10 top articles from Lippincott's prestigious list of nursing journals. |
| Care Coordination Processes in Transitional Care for Patients With Heart Failure: An Integrative Review Through a Social Network Lens Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, November/December 2022 Exiting the Cave: Exploring the Transition From Paleolithic to Omnivorous Dieting Nutrition Today, September/October 2022 Unleash your inner author: Getting published in a professional nursing journal Nursing2022, October 2022 The Challenges of Managing Pain in the Intensive Care Unit Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, October/December 2022 Linking Hospitals to Communities Through Evidence-Based Practice Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice, September/October 2022 New Management Guidelines for Mild Hypertension During Pregnancy MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, November/December 2022 The overturn of Roe v. Wade: Reproductive health in the post-Roe era The Nurse Practitioner, October 2022 Design by the front line Nursing Management, October 2022 Door-to-Diuretic Time: A New Nursing Quality Indicator? Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, September/October 2022 Interventions to Reduce Nurses' Moral Distress in the Intensive Care Unit: An Integrative Review Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, September/October 2022 * Questions about access, contact your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians: Michele Matucheski Kellee Selden |
