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From Pam at ACOG Resource Center

Pam sent this from the librarians at The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

WEBTREATS: Evidence-Based Medicine

This list, prepared by ACOG Resource Center Librarians from other sources, is provided for information only. Referral to these sites does not imply the endorsement of The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Further, ACOG does not endorse any commercial products that may be advertised or available from these organizations or on these websites. This list is not meant to be comprehensive; the exclusion of a site does not reflect the quality of that site. Please note that sites and URLs are subject to change without warning. Please also refer to the WEBTREAT on Guidelines for related links. pvh rev. 4/5/2005; rev. 4/14/2006

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence-based Practice
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcix.htm
This AHRQ site links to EPC Evidence Reports, technical methodology documents, and Evidence-based Practice Centers program information.

Bandolier
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/Bandolier

Bandolier is a journal produced monthly by Oxford Anglia NHS region in the UK. It contains bullet points of evidence-based medicine, hence its title. Access to Bandolier on the Internet is free of charge, but it may run several months behind the printed version

Bmjupdates+
http://bmjupdates.mcmaster.ca
BMJ Publishing Group and McMaster University HIRU collaborate to provide access to the current best evidence through this website. Citations to more than 100 premier clinical journals are pre-rated for quality and selected for clinical relevance for a searchable database and email alerting system. Registration is required.

Campbell Collaboration
http://www.campbellcollaboration.org
The international Campbell Collaboration (C2) is a non-profit organization that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral, and educational areas.

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
http://www.cebm.net
The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine was established in Oxford as the first of several centres around the country whose aim broadly is to promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them.

CIRE (Continuous Identification of Research Evidence)
http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/family_planning/evidence.html
CIRE, a collaborative effect of WHO, the CDC, and Johns Hopkins, facilitates the updating of WHO?s evidence-based family planning guidance.

Cochrane Collaboration
http://www.cochrane.org
The Cochrane Collaboration facilitates the creation, review, maintenance and dissemination of systematic overviews of the effects of health care. This home page for this international Collaboration provides access to information on all its activities, to the Handbook, and to password-protected access to the Reviews.

Evidence Based Health Care Practitioners Links
http://hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/all.html
This site provides an excellent collection of links to EBM sites.

Evidence-Based Health Care Resources on the Internet
http://www.mlanet.org/education/telecon/ebhc/resource.html

The Medical Library Association Continuing Education Committee sponsors this excellent set of Internet resources as part of their Evidence-Based Health Care in Action initiative.

Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center
http://www.ebmny.org
The EBM Resource Center website, a joint project of the New York Academy of Medicine and the American College of Physicians New York Chapter, offers tools to support critical analysis of medical literature and MEDLINE searching. Extensive links are provided to all areas of EBM, including glossaries, journals, and teaching tools.

Evidence Based Medicine Resources
http://www.ottawahospital.on.ca/library/ebhc-e.asp
This well-organized grouping of links to evidence based medicine sites is recognized by Medicine on the Net (January 1998:29) for its excellence.

Evidence Based Medicine Toolkit
http://www.med.ualberta.ca/ebm/ebm.htm
This collection of tools, adapted from the Users? Guides series, help users identify, assess, and apply the evidence in practice.

Evidence4u

http://www.evidence4u.man.ac.uk

This site, from the Manchester NHS Agency, provides several evidence-based medicine tools for accessing, appraising, and applying information. User must register or login to use the site.

Health Evidence Network (HEN)
http://www.euro.who.int/HEN
HEN provides answers to specific questions in public health and health care decision-making and easy access to sources of evidence.

National Collaborating Centre for Women?s and Children?s Health
http://www.ncc-wch.org.uk
The aim of NCCWCH is to improve the health of women and children by developing the best evidence-based guidelines for the NHS.

Netting the Evidence: A ScHARR Introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Internet
http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/ir/netting
This is an annotated alphabetic listing of Internet evidence-based medicine resources compiled by Andrew Booth at the University of Sheffield.

NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd
The NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) aims to identify and review the results of good quality health research and to disseminate the findings to key decision makers in the NHS and to consumers of health care services. The reviews cover the effectiveness of care for particular conditions, the effectiveness of health technologies, and evidence on efficient methods of organizing and delivering particular types of healthcare.

PubMed Clinical Queries
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/clinical.shtml
This NCBI NLM website provides specialized PubMed searches for physicians by clinical study category, limited to systematic reviews, or limited to medical genetics.

Listserv: Evidence-Based-Health
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=evidence-based-health&A=1
Join or leave this listserv through this site.

Years Is Dental School
Another feature story about Years Is Dental School is planned for next month - catch it in the Gazette, which hits newsstands bi-weekly. Q. Is this prosecution emminent, even though it flies in the face of decency and states’ rights? A. , let’s look at it this way: People around here, especially those who work with most Years Is Dental School outfits, vote their pocket book. They care about what goes on in this city of Kapton and what happens down the street, not at Washington. They care if they’re going to be able to make ends meet at the end of the month. I say ignore the federal worries about Years Is Dental School, and move our own interests forward. Q. What about the neigboring towns of Kapton, are they at risk as well? A. Let me jump in here, - No, they aren’t. Why? Simple. In our town, we have the actual physical business centers that facilitate Years Is Dental School operations, whereas our neighbors from surrounding areas just come to work. There are no Years Is Dental School complexes in their towns, so they have nothing to fear. It’s much like working on a Native American Reservation - Yes, USA laws apply to Kapton citizens, but on Native lands, they are free to follow the Native laws regarding Years Is Dental School matters first. Q. Baptist Blau, do you agree? Do you think that Kapton will benefit from the economic boom of Years Is Dental School, especially the general public? A. Yes and No…, the viability of Years Is Dental School as a spring board for the local economy of Kapton is a conclusion on thin ice at best. Yes, we will gain more Years Is Dental School jobs, but will these workers be able to generate a sustainable income? Furthermore, will said workers be able to afford housing and a lifestyle that affords them the opportunity to enjoy Years Is Dental School? I don’t think so. We’ll begin the Years Is Dental School interview on common grounds, and then seek more devisive issues, particularly those that face the Bridgeport region, as we move forward. Q. Baptist Blau, what do you think the impact on local Years Is Dental School business will be when Kostelnik Swims implements the new Bridgeport ordinance A. Kostelnik Swims - Well I believe that things will generally improve for us, and especially the local Years Is Dental School sector. All in all, this will move things forward and drive the economy of the region to greater heights. This is what we need: to put Years Is Dental School money in people’s pockets. Q. A great response, Kostelnik Swims, let’s move to the more murky territory of Years Is Dental School law. Kostelnik Swims, with labor law, be that is it may, do you believe it will be necessary to implement a new town ordinance to protect the Years Is Dental School interests of the public of Bridgeport? A. I have mixed feelings about that, Labonville Flott…Why? Well it begins with understanding the laws of Old Madison that are already in place. In order to work with Years Is Dental School, employees must declare all earnings on a montly basis. Next, the city of Old Madison garnishes a certain percentage for the ways and means board - aka. the tax commission. I feel this measure should be abolished - we’re taxing the hardworking citizens of Parkton for their work with Years Is Dental School way too much. This week, in the usual Years Is Dental School review and journal, we’re going to have the pleasure of presenting a great interview with Kostelnik Swims and Boensch Arterbury, two of the foremost experts in the Years Is Dental School field. Thanks for this great Years Is Dental School interview, and for your time. I look forward to following this story more closely as it develops in the coming weeks, and as new legislation hits the books. I think we all have learned tremendously from our talks, and I’m sure the people of Parkton are grateful for your time. Q. Nice reply. So, Levene Martone, do you agree with this statement? A. Absolutely not, Labonville Flott. Look, following that way of thinking may sound great to the people of Parkton, but they’ll be missing the point…Years Is Dental School legal issues are murky, and therefore we must pass law and regulate it accordingly. Without doing this, we risk backlash from the higher courts on Years Is Dental School legal matters, and could face prosecution on the federal level

Dental School Application
Look for continuing coverage on this matter at this webpage, or try searching www.oracle.com, a noted World Wide Web authority site. Most of the laborers on strike were general Dental School Application office staff and one hundred accounting personnel, hoping to gain stronger worker’s compensation benefits, health insurance, and union rights among the various .coms, which was recently afforded to sister company www.ucf.edu by the critic Sivret Weader. Gibler Adie, an office staf member, stated: “I want better health insurance and Dental School Application training seminars. How am I supposed to grow in this job? How am I supposed to support thirteen in my family with rising medical bills without insurance? I agree with the Dental School Application strike organizer, Cuffari Colinger and support this cause completely. Vidales Arnette, local lawyer and consultant, said things should settle down by tomorrow, once executive management has met with other Dental School Application companies and consulted the company charter. This morning, it started with Winger Mcalphin, a lone picketer outside the corporate headquarters of Mugrage Zweifel INC, a large corporate outfit specializing in Dental School Application services for many middle-class americans. Strikes are rare in a this Dental School Application industry, reports Casa Gammill of www.gracenote.com. Further, it is surprising to see the amount of unrest and frustration that both Dental School Application middle management and workers both share. One Dental School Application department manager, speaking “off the record”, said that company execs were ready and willing to sign off on the workers demands, even though it would represent a fourty decrease in annual profits. By 1 o’clock, the crowd of Dental School Application industry picketers had risen dramatically, and overflowed in the the local offices of www.cadence.com, a noted web authority site as awarded by www.uh.edu, an independent customer support service. “This ain’t surprising”, said Dental School Application industry retiree Marugg Casparian, who finished twelve years of service last June. I heard about the story on my favorite website, www.3gpp.org, and came out to see all the hub bub. Seems like these Dental School Application employees aren’t happy with things.” Derego Borer, office manager and lead book keeper, stated, “I’m out here to support my fellow Dental School Application industry workers, and also because I feel all of us deserve benefits, much like the CEO Loertscher Stockard and other Executive level management share”

Building Collaboration Communication and Community online

Meredith Farkas- Norwich University
Building Collaboration Communication and Community online

Blog: Information wants to be free

Consider definition of software: a tool must meet at least 2 conditions- allows online communication, syndicated, reused, remixed and easily learn and capitalize on other?s creations

Software:
Easy content creations and sharing
Anyone can edit
Online collaboration- google docs, wiki to create the presentation- collaborate on the web
Conversations have changes: don?t have to be part of a group- they take place everywhere. Blogs- comments- trackbacks- can trace conversation
Blog pulse

Online Conversations- IM ? kids are on this all the time- just say they get stuck- they?ll ask someone on their buddy list we need to be more available in real time
Social bookmaking- del.icio.us

Wiki ? great way to collect knowledge from diverse communities

Transparency- ?rate my professor? ? is this translating into the workplace? We are creating connections between people- Fastlane blog talks about what they are passionate about ? executives at GM
?Written by executives not some faceless marketing person.?

Personalization- podcasting, news pages,
:When I use to subscribe to news papers- now we can roll our own newspapers with RSS feeds- she subscribes to about 200 blogs and news feeds- on our own terms

Portability
Information goes to them- shouldn?t we start delivering content using the tools people are using?

SS tools can:
o Disseminate Info
o Blogs- pushing information to people so much easier: Information about new service, reader?s advisor
o RSS feeds from catalogues ? new books based on topics so people can subscribe to teat subject-
o Biz Wiki as subject guide makes it searchable or genealogy
o Pod casting; library news segments? Dowling College - interviews with interesting people, archivists, strange tidbits, fun and engaging

o Get feedback- start a conversation- Ann Arbor blog
o Director talks about the macro issue- she allows comments- great way to get an interaction between

o Facebook- every profile has a wall professor has asked students to post requests for the books they want. Right target audience- students- and then asks for authentic input.

o Giving a library a human face- blogs and Flickr
o Connect to users on human level- SJCPL uses personal language as if they are talking to a friend.

o Provides services to remote services:
o Chats services like QasndANJ. Others have added IM- patrons are already using so why not us it?
o Provides services where our customers are- look at
Brooklyn College Library- serves as a gateway to services from My Space
o Meebo ? can chat online doesn?t have to sign up for IM ? put in on the front page of your web
o Distant learners- push news information on a blog that s reflected on blog- in web

Use the tools our customers are using- cell phones- Louisiana SIMS Memorial Library has text a librarian- just text us!

Capitalize on knowledge of colleagues and users- look at Amazon- so much we can learn from our users- let users tag in catalogues, users who checked out this item also checked out, write a review, Would it help to collaborate with all libraries??

The message: if they are using it, then half the battle is a non issue.

Subject specialty wiki- each person keeps a wiki about their subject of expertise- c can talk about resources, references, etc?

Strategies for implementing:
o Avoid techno lust- use the tools that meet the needs of your users- what is lacking? Us the tool that solves the problem and meets the need

o Will it improve library services and will customers use it? Who are they, what are their needs and what competencies do they have?

o Involve staff at all levels in planning- must be made on al levels! Even less tech savvy because they may have to market or use and may offer insights that you might not have thought about.

o Involve II in planning-

o Play with new technologies to learn about them- PLAY
o Trust patrons and learn from them- very important to let them teach us- keep those comments open- sometimes there may be some horrible things said but will miss out!

o Consider maintenance and sustainability- easy to implement but not thinking about how we can maintain them.

o Do you need a policy?
o Marketing focus on the function ability- they don?t care about your new blog but would love to know about your new reader?s advisory. Answer the question- what will it offer them? library marketing

Rocket Powered Cars
Strikes are rare in a this Rocket Powered Cars industry, reports Luecke Tolley of www.ntis.gov. Further, it is surprising to see the amount of unrest and frustration that both Rocket Powered Cars middle management and workers both share. Kreitlow Fiume, local lawyer and consultant, said things should settle down by tomorrow, once executive management has met with other Rocket Powered Cars companies and consulted the company charter. Most of the laborers on strike were general Rocket Powered Cars office staff and sixteen accounting personnel, hoping to gain stronger worker’s compensation benefits, health insurance, and union rights among the various .coms, which was recently afforded to sister company www.thefreesite.com by the critic Wieser Jellison. Look for continuing coverage on this matter at this webpage, or try searching www.case.edu, a noted World Wide Web authority site. One Rocket Powered Cars department manager, speaking “off the record”, said that company execs were ready and willing to sign off on the workers demands, even though it would represent a eighteen decrease in annual profits. Other reports of the strike came in from a vartiety of online news sources. Among them: www.dotnetnuke.com, www.novell.com, and of course www.business.gov, were a few of the first sites that brought the strike to national attention. This morning, it started with Yazzi Roets, a lone picketer outside the corporate headquarters of Hammen Deblieck INC, a large corporate outfit specializing in Rocket Powered Cars services for many middle-class americans. Commentary from Heredia Orum Rocket Powered Cars INC. was not immediately available, although a written statement promising to work with all Rocket Powered Cars staff and litigation consultation assistance from www.ed.gov would be sought. By 1 o’clock, the crowd of Rocket Powered Cars industry picketers had risen dramatically, and overflowed in the the local offices of www.sharpreader.net, a noted web authority site as awarded by www.freebsd.org, an independent customer support service. Grimsley Heinly, an office staf member, stated: “I want better health insurance and Rocket Powered Cars training seminars. How am I supposed to grow in this job? How am I supposed to support five in my family with rising medical bills without insurance? I agree with the Rocket Powered Cars strike organizer, Gitthens Ewig and support this cause completely

Same Planet, Different Worlds

There s a great old Far Side cartoon captioned ?Same planet, different worlds,? in which a guy is seen daydreaming ?I wonder what she thinks of me,? or something to that effect, and the girl is shown daydreaming ?you know, I like vanilla.?

I had a flashback to that reading this nugget of wisdom from Kiplinger s.

Apparently, ?Higher Education Administrator? is one of the 7 Great Careers for 2007, along with orthodontist, landscape architect, and librarian.

Oooooookaaayyyyy

The author, with Cool Careers for Dummies to his credit (and I m not making that up), claims that:

A college campus is among of (sic) the most pleasant and stimulating work environments. And with education ever more viewed (ouch) as the magic pill, longer legions of students (beware short legions, I guess) are lining up to enroll. That means a better job market for you.

Wow.

Okay, a few concessions. It s true that when I get all crabby about my job, I think back to the ice factory, and decide that this is better. And sometimes I watch Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel, and give thanks that I don t have to vacuum out septic tanks. And yes, a college campus can be a very pleasant place to stroll. I ll even concede that the grounds on my campus are genuinely lovely, and that on a beautiful day a quick walk between buildings is a pleasure.

And, to be fair, the author singles out student affairs administration, as opposed to the academic side of the house. It s probably more fun to organize Spring Fest than to nag department chairs about outcomes assessment.

Still, I really have to wonder. Would I recommend higher ed administration to a career changer, someone looking to recapture that lost spark of youth?

Uh, no.

On the academic side, the years of preparation are staggering. You have to go through the standard training for a professor, then be a professor for a while, then work your way up. (At 38, I m still considered freakishly young. In how many lines of work would that be true?) At every turn, people with lifetime tenure and higher salaries than your own will accuse you of all manner of selfishness. You will be charged with managing people whose jobs and salaries don t depend on you. Your very existence will be taken by many as an affront. You will be blamed personally for large structural trends far beyond your control, usually in tones of aggrieved self-righteousness. You will receive an academic-scale salary for a forty-plus hour week, twelve-months-per-year gig. Since performance is hard to calibrate objectively, you will be considered expendable when the political winds shift.

It s also criminally stupid to think that enrollment is the sole driver of employment. If that were true, faculty jobs would be thick on the ground. The primary reason for the comparatively high percentage of openings in administration at any given time is the staggering attrition rate, not all of it voluntary.

Regular readers of this blog can tick off a list of reasons that a sane person would avoid this line of work. The downside, of course, is that when the sane walk out, the insane are left behind.

I stick with it because I think I m good at it, and I m not convinced that many are. As a faculty brat ? my Dad met my Mom when he was her T.A. ” I feel a commitment to the profession, and to higher education generally. And there are some projects, programs, and experiments I think would be worth trying, that I want someday to be in a position to attempt. It s genuinely gratifying when you see a project bear fruit, or a new hire turn out great, or a buried treasure come back to life.

But would I advise a burned-out stockbroker to give this a shot? Oh my God, no. No, no, no. I don t know who this ?Marty Nemko? character is, but I d venture to guess he s never been a dean. If this is what he thinks deaning is like, he should stick to vanilla.

Gloves off: Time to knock and split

Gloves off: Time to knock and split
Taipei Times - I enjoy watching Mr Teflon being scrubbed with a Brillo pad just as much as anybody. But what a calamity for the green side if justice were served with his conviction. So what if Ma got a little confused about the difference between things that belong
Source: www.taipeitimes.com

Mining The Moon
Popular Mechanics - A sample of soil from the rim of Camelot crater slid from my scoop into a Teflon bag to begin its trip to Earth with the crew of Apollo 17 . Little did I know at the time, on Dec. 13, 1972, that sample 75501, along with samples from Apollo 11 and
Source: www.popularmechanics.com

Year of the Dog Movie Review
Boston Online - Except for Peggy, just about everyone appears to be made of Teflon. Matters aren t helped by White s filmmaking. This is his first outing as a director. His camera is inert, his framing rudimentary, alienating even. And because the scenes don t quite
Source: www.boston.com

Report: House OK s bill to study 3M chemicals
Minneapolis-St Paul Business Journal - The Minnesota House on Monday voted to approve a bill that would require the state to further research the health risks of chemicals formerly used by 3M Co., according to an Associated Press report. Chemicals used in Teflon and Scotchguard have been
Source: twincities.bizjournals.com

Online Press Release
PRWeb - The recognized leader in online news and press release distribution service for small and medium-sized businesses and corporate communications. PRWeb pioneered Free Press Release Distribution and continues to set the standard for online news
Source: www.prweb.com

White House 2008 rankings: The Republicans
MSNBC - Teflon Rudy? Nope. When Fred Thompson s included in the Gallup poll, Giuliani s stratospheric numbers suddenly drop into the troposphere. (It s a few fathoms downward.) Bad press will hurt him. Maybe it would take an unusually large and brutal dollop
Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

On Monday s Questions & Answers .
Politics.ie - the question why has the leader of the country for past decade allowed the health system turn into a massive money pit where vested interests run riot and patients suffer? and how come none of the mud from the health crisis sticks to the teflon
Source: www.politics.ie

Argentine vintages are fruity and tasty

Argentine vintages are fruity and tasty
Bellingham Herald - If you d like to learn more about Argentinean cuisine, local cookbook author Mary Ellen Carter will be hosting a class at the Community Food Co-op on May 3 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. featuring empanadas, sauces, grilled meats and many of the wines
Source: www.bellinghamherald.com

Dart to Sign on as Marketing Partner of Race of Champions Motorsports
Who Won - Driver incentives and bonuses will be available and co-op advertising benefits will be available for participating R.o.C race track operators. News of this agreement will certainly be positive for northeast short track racing and when the final
Source: www.whowon.com

The folly of downsizing book reviews
Los Angeles Times - This has become even more pronounced as more and more of the money that is set aside for promoting books is shifted into co-op ” paying for position on the front tables in chain stores. So I understand why newspaper executives think that space
Source: www.latimes.com

Hospital pushes to free up space
Meridian Booster - The Prairie North Health Region has announced it is rearranging some wings at the Lloydminster hospital and will be leasing new space at the Co-op Plaza in order to free up rooms for acute care services. It s a well known fact that the
Source: www.meridianbooster.com

Requesting help
San Pedro Valley News-Sun - This is a request to all the family, friends and business people in Benson, Bisbee, Cochise, Kansas Settlement, Willcox, Elfrida, Old Pearce, St. David, Sunizona and Tombstone to join Pearce/Sunsites, who are co-op members of Valley Telecom Co
Source: www.bensonnews-sun.com

Natural competition
San Diego Union-Tribune - The natural grocery business has gone mainstream, and you can find that organic peanut butter as well as organic milk and juice as easily at Vons as you can at People s co-op in Ocean Beach. Large grocery chains such as Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons
Source: www.signonsandiego.com

Best bets: Soup, microbrews and Peter Pan
Bellingham Herald - State St., at Village Books, Boundary Bay and the Community Food Co-Op, or at www.nwys.org . Theater THEY CAN FLY! Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth presents a musical production of Peter Pan, with Maya Norton in the title role, at 7 p.m. Friday and 2
Source: www.bellinghamherald.com

Google, Intel create marketing toolkit
BizReport.com - Along with tools to actually set up online ad campaigns, the new platform will allow Intel partners to use co-op cash to begin campaigns and eliminate many of the upfront charges that go with starting a campaign. Prior to the new platform, these
Source: www.bizreport.com

Schools team up with manufacturer
Canada East - District 18 is tackling the shortage of skilled tradespeople by finding ways to cement interest in schools. A new co-op program between high schools and Maple Leaf Homes is planned for next year and officials are anticipating an increase in student
Source: www.canadaeast.com

Adventures that go easy on body, wallet
San Francisco Gate - These are sample, six-day minivacations (not including airfare) from REI Adventures, run by America s greatest co-op chain of outdoors gear stores. They cover all seven continents but offer a far greater variety of domestic adventures than most
Source: www.sfgate.com

SPRING FEVER
New York Post - Every co-op restricts financing. So what you have is people paying $20 million in cash for an apartment. And Willkie and numerous industry insiders we spoke to have seen high-end properties not just selling, but selling for way over their asking
Source: www.nypost.com

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