Celebrate National Library Week With Us April 12-16!

Since 1958, National Library Week has been celebrated each April in libraries across the country. NLW is a time to acknowledge the benefits that libraries provide to communities and promote their use and support.

This year the Sladen Library will celebrate NLW by holding two drawings for book store gift cards on Wednesday the 14th and Friday the 16th. We are also offering free article ordering for the entire week!

Visit the library or check out the Sladen website in the upcoming weeks for further details.

From the Conrad R. Lam Archives

The Henry Ford Hospital Easter Parade of April 17, 1957

Henry Ford Hospital sponsored several Easter related activities in the 1950's. The Easter Parade featured colorful hand made Easter bonnets created by the occupational therapy patients on M-2. The April 1957 Thermonitor stated that the “highest fashioned hats” were made using scrap materials and that three prizes were awarded for the most original hats. The occupational therapy department had many holiday parties as part of their therapy program to aid in the socialization of the patient.

Other popular Easter programs included the Easter Bunny Campaign, to raise funds for the purchase of presents for the pediatric patients on 1-3 and 1-4. The February 1954 Thermonitor issue featured an article on “How to Be an Easter Bunny”, providing instructions on the program. The fundraiser was sponsored by the hospital messenger service, which raised money by abstaining from their candy bar purchases. The pediatric department also allowed rabbits in the wards for the children to play with during the holiday season.

–Melanie Bazil

Check Out the Pharmacology Tools in Clinical Pharmacology

Clinical Pharmacology is one of the drug information databases the library provides access to; the other being Micromedex which will be highlighted in a future issue of the newsletter. Clinical Pharmacology offers many tools that make it a valuable resource not only for pharmacists, but physicians and nurses as well.

At the core of Clinical Pharmacology are the drug monographs that provide clear, succinct, peer-reviewed information on all US prescription drugs, as well as coverage of herbal, nutritional, investigational, and over-the-counter products. Each monograph offers easy-to-navigate tabs for description/classification, mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics, indications/dosage, administration, contraindications, pregnancy, interactions, adverse reactions, IV compatibility, how supplied, monitoring parameters, and a link to the natural product/drug interaction report from the Natural Medicine’s Database.

The interactive tools that are part of Clinical Pharmacology should not be overlooked. These tools can be accessed from the drop-down menus that are located at the top of each page. From the Reports tab you can customize a drug interaction report, a clinical comparison report, or look at the IV compatibility of two drugs. The IV compatibility report is drawn from Trissel’s 2™ Clinical Pharmaceutics Database.

What if you don’t know the name of the drug you are looking for, but you need to find out which drugs have the adverse reaction of dizziness? You can run a search based on adverse reaction from the Find/List tab. Additional options found under this tab include searching by indication, contraindication, NDC, or manufacturer. You can also view an A-Z list of all the monographs available in Clinical Pharmacology, generate a listing of all the drugs that interact with grapefruit juice, view a list of all the monographs that contain a black box warning, and view a listing of products that require a MedGuide. In the instances that the MedGuides are copyright free, the full document is provided and can be printed off and distributed to patients.

Speaking of patients, Clinical Pharmacology also provides access to printable patient-level drug information MedCounselor Sheets. These can be accessed from the Patient Education tab. The MedCounselor Sheets comply with national standards for Consumer Medication Information and are available in both English and Spanish. When you print a MedCounselor Sheet you are also given the option to customize it per patient by including the patient’s name, institution, and the name of healthcare provider. There is even the capability to increase the font size of the printout for low vision patients. Because the Sladen Library subscribes to MDConsult, you can also access the Patient Education portion of MDConsult from the Patient Education tab in Clinical Pharmacology.

The Resource Center tab contains numerous point-of-care reference materials and tools. The Lab Reference Values area provides traditional units for many standard lab tests including those found in a Coagulation Panel, an Arterial Blood Gas Panel, a Metabolic Panel, and a Urinary Renal Panel. The Clinical Calculators section of the Resource Center provides access to dozens of drug calculators, unit conversion calculators, clinical criteria/decision tree calculators, and medical calculators which are powered by MedCalc 3000. Some of the available medical calculators can aid in determining values such as creatine clearance and total lung capacity.

As you can see, Clinical Pharmacology is a wonderful reference tool for the pharmacist, lab technician, physician, and nurse. There is much more to this database than what is listed here. The best way to discover your favorite tools is to visit the website for yourself and see all that it has to offer. Clinical Pharmacology can be accessed from the Medline & More page on the Sladen Library website or from the blue Quick Links box located along the right side of every Sladen page. If you have any questions about this resource and would like to speak with a librarian, please contact us at 313-916-2550 or sladen@hfhs.org.

-JoAnn Krzeminski

Medical Image Resources

The Sladen Library has developed a web page with links to literally thousands of images on the internet – Sladen Medical Image Resources.

Here are some highlights of the web site:

• Anatomy.TV (Ovid) – This contains one of the world’s most detailed 3D models of human anatomy online.
• Gray’s Anatomy – More than 1,200 engravings from the classic 1918 edition of this classic textbook.
• History of Medicine Images – Includes close to 70,000 images from all aspects of the history of medicine, compiled by the National Library of Medicine
• MedlinePlus’s Medical Encyclopedia – Useful information and graphics, very suitable for patients and family members.
• The Visible Human Project – The National Library of Medicine has created complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies

The Medical Image web page also includes specialized web sites dealing with radiology, dermatology, neurology, anatomy and pathology images.

-Valerie Reid

Spotlight on the New Education and Training Website

Its time to check out the new Education & Training website!

Support for Authors

To support authors, both writing resources and tools that support collaboration have been organized to help facilitate the scholarly communication process. Did you know that the library offers manuscript preparation services at no charge to HFHS employees? In 2009, we received 82 requests for assistance with manuscripts! If you are struggling with formatting your paper to meet guidelines set by a specific journal call and ask us about manuscript preparation and find out how it can be a real timesaver!

Tutorials

Have you ever felt unfamiliar with using a particular resource such as PubMed, OVID Medline, CINAHL, or EndNote? The ‘Tutorials’ section of the website will provide you access to information on utilization of select resources. All tutorials can be downloaded, printed, and can be accessed regardless of whether you are on or off the HFHS campus. Tutorials are in PowerPoint, PDF, and Word document formats. Online tutorials for EndNoteX3 and the new PubMed interface are coming soon.

Training

In 2009, the library conducted 61 training sessions, serving 605 participants. Training requests received have been broken down as exhibited in Figure 1 below.

When asking participants for their feedback regarding their training experiences, 96.3% indicated they would recommend using Sladen’s Education & Training services. The library can provide instruction on a variety of resources including (but not limited to) EndNote, PubMed, OVID Medline, CINAHL, Evidence-based medicine resources, Evaluating Health Information, and much more. Instruction can be provided in a variety of formats:

• One-on-one
• Hands-on group instruction
• Demonstration

The library is also able to bring instruction directly to you when and where you need it via Library-On-The-Go, a mobile computer lab comprised of 10 laptops, an instructor’s Tablet PC, and a projector. If you feel that you or your department is in need of training from the library, give us a call and we will work together to come up with an efficient and effective training opportunity. Want to see what has been said about our Education & Training services? Feel free to browse through the comments from past participants.

To access the Education & Training website click here. You can also access the web page directly from the Sladen homepage by clicking “Education & Training” under the Services tab. To schedule training or setup a consultation, please contact Nandita Mani via (313) 916-2550 or nmani1@hfhs.org.

-Nandita Mani

Computer Books for Dummies

Sometimes we all need a little help figuring out how to use certain popular computer programs. Help is just a few clicks away when you use the online For Dummies books recently added to the library’s collection.

Some of the available titles include:

• Excel 2003, Just the Steps for Dummies
• PowerPoint 2003, Just the Steps for Dummies
• Word 2003: All-in-one Desk Reference for Dummies
• Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium
• Outlook 2007 for Dummies
• Windows XP for Dummies

Access these e-books from the Sladen Library online catalog.

Collexis: Advancing Collaboration

Collexis is a new research collaboration system that is being used jointly by Henry Ford Health System and Wayne State University. This system enables researchers to find potential collaborators within our organizations and makes it easy to find out who the experts are and what they have published. The expert profile or “fingerprint” also includes all NIH grant funding information. This information is imported from the NIH Reporter database. Collexis does have future plans of including other funding agencies as well. Each researcher’s profile includes a dynamic graphic representing their collaboration network and an interactive image of research trends.

Explore the WSU/HFHS Collexis collaboration at http://www.researchprofiles.collexis.com/wayne/.

-Barbara LeTarte