Consumer Health Resources in GALILEO

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Consumer Health Resources in GALILEO

• Peter Shipman MLIS
• Robert B. Greenblatt, MD Library
• Medical College of Georgia

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Objectives

• Webs impact as health tool
• Identify quality consumer health resources in
  GALILEO databases

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MLA Consumer health

• Information on health and medical topics
  provided in response to requests from the general
  public, including patients and their families. In
  addition to information on the symptoms,
  diagnosis, and treatment of disease, CHI
  encompasses information on health promotion,
  preventive medicine, the determinants of health,
  and accessing the health care system.

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Pew reports

• Pew Internet American Life reports
• www.pewinternet.org/
• Internet Health Resources (2003)
• - telephone interview 2k

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Pew

• Fully 80 of adult Internet users, or about 93
  million Americans, have searched for at least one
  of 16 major health topics online.

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Pew
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Pew

• Health seekers go online to become informed, to
  prepare for appointments and surgery, to share
  information, and to seek and provide support.

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Pew

• Internet seen as being reliable
• Health seekers want access to more information,
  but they cant always find what is already
  available online.

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Pew prescription drugs

• Prescription Drugs Online (Oct 2004)
• 64 of households use prescription drugs
• 25 look for drug information
• 4 purchase prescription drugs online
• - 50K income
• - Internet experience 6yrs

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GALILEO dbs (K-12)

• Academic Search Premier
• AltHealth Watch
• Clinical Pharmacology
• Clinical Reference Systems
• Health Source Consumer
• Health Source Nursing / Academic
• MEDLINE

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GALILEO dbs (K-12)

• MedlinePlus
• Merck Manuals
• SIRS Knowledge Source Web Select

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Other GALILEO dbs low CHI

• AccessScience encyclopedia
• AGRICOLA
• CINAHL pre-CINAHL
• Current Contents
• Lexis-Nexis Universe

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Alt HealthWatch

• unique complementary and alternative medicine
  database
• 140 titles indexed, full-text
• subject search previews search results

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Health Source - Consumer

• good content but somewhat hidden when searching
  subparts
• Journals, Clinical Reference Systems (McKesson),
  and Stedmans dictionary are strengths
• Stedmans Medical Dictionary button

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Stedmans

• Link Stedmans term to subject search in HS-C

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Stedmans
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Health Source ConsumerClinical Reference
Systems

• Clinical Reference Systems (CRS) is a see limit
  in search results
• - CRS are patient handouts
• - some Espanol
• - can be searched as a separate EBSCO database

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Clinical Reference Systems
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Clinical Reference Systems
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Health Source ConsumerClinical Pharmacology

• Clinical Pharmacology is a see limit in search
  results
• - patient handouts for drugs
• - some Espanol
• - can be searched as a separate EBSCO database

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Clinical Pharmacology
..not always up to date
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Clinical Pharmacology

• Drug monographs from Gold Standard Multimedia

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Health SourceNursing / Academic

• 850 indexed, 650 full-text
• more peer-reviewed
• more clinical titles
• content from nursing titles (30 of core FT)
• may not limit to nursing titles
• Clinical Reference Systems, Clinical Pharmacology
  N/A

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Health SourceNursing / Academic
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GALILEOMerck Manuals

• Medical Information / Home - 2nd, 2003
• Diagnosis and Therapy - 17th, 1999
• Geriatrics - 3rd, 2000
• Health Aging - 1st, 2004, not complete
• Veterinary Medicine - 8th, 1998

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SKS Web Select

• More social science / advocacy mixed with
  consumer health, but suited for target audience

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MedlinePlus

• Encyclopedia
• Drug information
• Topics
• Interactive tutorials
• Easy-to-read
• Espanol
• Go Local initiative

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Other GALILEO dbs

• MAS Ultra

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Other GALILEO dbs

• SKS Researcher
• SIRS Discoverer

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Notable web sites

• Healthfinder (HHS) http//www.healthfinder.gov
• Kids Health (Nemours) http//www.kidshealth.org/ki
  d/index.jsp

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Notables

• CAPHIS Cosumer and Patient Health Information
  Section
• (Medical Library Association) http//caphis.mlane
  t.org/index.html

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Evaluate sitesMLA Users Guide

• A Users Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health
  Information on the Web
• http//www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html
• - sponsorship
• - currency
• - factual information
• - audience

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Evaluate sites

• Seals of approval for quality
• HONcode Health on the Internet Foundation Code
  of Conduct
• URAC Utilization Review Accreditation
  Commission

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Thank you.

• Peter Shipman
• pshipman_at_mail.mcg.edu