Category Archives: Clinical Medicine

Library creates MERS-CoV Portal for reviewed information sources and tips

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MERSPortalOn May 2, 2014, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus in the United States. The virus was found in a man who had traveled from Saudi Arabia to Indiana at the end of April.

The Library’s MERS-CoV (Coronavirus) Portal provides information – from a variety of national and international sources – on the current state of the disease.

Note to PubMed searchers: CORONAVIRUS and CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS are the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) most often used to describe MERS articles. Many MERS articles are recent and not yet indexed, so search by keyword as well as by MeSH.

Twitter users may also choose to search for the following hastags (in order of use): #MERS, #MERSCoV, and #coronavirus.

UpToDate Anytime mobile app now available

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UpToDate® mobile and remote access is now available to all UT Southwestern Medical Center students, faculty, and staff.  If you haven’t registered with UpToDate yet, you’re missing out on the UpToDate Anywhere access.

To register, go to UpToDate from a computer connected to the UT Southwestern Medical Center network or through the integrated link in Epic, and click on the “Log In/Register” button in the top right-hand corner).

Some new features of this mobile feature are:

  • Free UpToDate Mobile App – The app is compatible with iPhone®, iPad®, Android™, or Windows 8 devices.
  • Fast and easy access to UpToDate by logging in from any computer with an Internet connection – With your user name and password you’ll get the evidence-based clinical information you need from home, the office, or wherever you are!
  • Effortless CME credits when you research a clinical question using UpToDate onsite or remotely – Credits can be earned on your mobile device.

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Library acquires First Consult, cancels DynaMed effective September 2012

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Effective September 1, 2012, the UT Southwestern Library has acquired First Consult via MD Consult and cancelled the subscription to DynaMed. This decision was made after carefully reviewing the Library’s current budget and vendor cost inflation and evaluating the features of all current, comparable evidence based resources to which the Library subscribes.

First Consult provides instant, user-friendly access to the latest evidence-based information on evaluation, diagnosis, clinical management, prognosis, and prevention. A free iPhone/iPad/iTouch First Consult mobile app includes topics with differential diagnosis that can be used with your MD Consult username and password.

If you would like more information and assistance with our current evidence-based medical resources, please request a personal consultation through the Contact Us form or at the Library during Library-staffed hours.

Your feedback and recommendations are always welcome at the Tell Us What You Think blog.

 

New VisualDX features and usability enhancements

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VisualDx now offers several new enhancements:

  • Drug Eruptions with Drug Citations: VisualDx has expanded its disease information to include citations from the literature documenting drug-disease relationships for every diagnosis with an associated medication finding.
  • Sorting of Differential Builder Results: Rankings are now based on importance and commonality/rarity in North America.
  • Associated Medications Disease Search and Text: Drug-induced conditions can now be searched by medication name using the search function in VisualDx. Each diagnosis will now feature an associated medications table that allows users to sort the list by medication name or number of citations in literature.
  • Content Additions: VisualDx has added 35 new diagnoses and 412 new images (22,758 in total).

Ginger Roberts, Library Liaison to the Medical School, says, “Students and new residents tell me they’re glad we have VisualDx, especially because its ease makes it a quick reference, and having a ‘jillion’ images can only help. The MS1s & MS2s say the differentials are great for new learning support.”

UpToDate's newest feature: Graphics Search

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The ability to search graphics was one of the most requested features in UpToDate‘s recent subscriber survey. With a new Graphics Search, clinicians can search graphics directly without first going to a topic. Finding the right graphic quickly will now be much easier and will save time.

UpToDate has more than 23,000 graphics, including pictures, tables, illustrations, diagrams, graphs, algorithms, and movies. These graphics can help make evidence-based medical decisions, prepare for lectures, and educate peers, students, and patients.

This new feature enables users to:

  • Search all the graphics in UpToDate
  • See search results in thumbnail format
  • See all topics that reference a particular graphic
  • View all graphics associated with a topic in thumbnail format

UpToDate’s informational flyer can assist with how to use this new function.

UpToDate restored in 2011

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Last October, the Library announced that the campus subscription to UpToDate would cease in November 2010 due to withdrawal of campus funding for this resource. Since then, the Library has gathered feedback from faculty, students, and staff regarding UpToDate, and this feedback was beneficial in allocating additional funding to restore the campus UpToDate subscription.
The Library is currently negotiating with UpToDate to provide a campus subscription to this valuable resource. Temporary access to UpToDate has been restored as of January 2011. The Library Clinical Evidence Resources portal, a collection of sources of evidence-based information, will include UpToDate. As a reminder, the Library is available for group or individual instructions on any evidence-based resources such as DynaMed, ACP PIER, and UpToDate.