Blossoming in the Desert:

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The Arizona Health Information Network
http//www.azhin.org
Arizona Health Information Network, Inc. P.O.
Box 245080 Tucson, AZ 85724-5080 520/626-8287
Fax [phone] coordinator_at_azhin.org
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AZHIN - The Arizona Health Information Network

• Mission
• Provide knowledge-based information resources to
  Arizonas health care practitioners students
• When where they need it
• At a reasonable cost invisible to end-user
• Incorporated in 1994 with 11 founding members
• 30 current member institutions

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Organizational Environment

• Members primary mission is health care or health
  sciences education
• Statewide
• Members agree to participate actively
• Governed by a board of directors
• Operating funds from member dues
• Dues based on member size
• Leadership broadly based

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Diversity of Membership

• Representatives are librarians, physicians,
  administrators, educators
• Urban and rural
• Very large and extremely small
• Varying member mission
• Rich library resources vs. no library resources
  or manager
• Differing technological infrastructures

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AZHIN Members

• Many Arizona hospitals or hospital systems
• State Department of Corrections
• Allied health educational institution
• AZ Telemedicine Program sites
• Academic health sciences center
• Osteopathic medical school

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Resources Offered

• AZHIN Portal
• Databases Medline, Health and Wellness Resource
  Center, CINAHL, Stat!Ref etc.
• Online full-text journals and textbooks
• Internet resource guidesvetted Web sites
• Training and instructional support

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AZHIN Web site http//www.azhin.org
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links to most in-demand products
links by format
PlusHelp Guides if you get confused!
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AZHIN - Books
format view
AIDS books
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AZHIN - Books
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Also Stat!Ref Book Collection
Quick Link to Stat!Ref
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AZHIN Log in process (Note process may differ
between member institutions)
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Stat!Ref
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Stat!Ref Conducting a search
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Stat!Ref Advanced search
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Stat!Ref Search Results
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Stat!Ref Linking to the Full-text
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AZHIN Databases
QUICK LINKMedline and others Nursing, EBM
Also listed by subject
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AZHIN Databases by subject
Browse databases, books, or journals
alphabetically, or by subject areas
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or, take the Quick Link from the home page into
OVID
OVID provides access to databases, full-text
books and journals
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Select a database.Need help searching? - See
AZHIN Help Guides
OVID connects you to several databases
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MEDLINE Keyword search
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Result 34926 articles
Lets try a search on inhalersresult 1026
articles
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Combining the two search results
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Limits human, English, Full text
Result 101 full text, review articles
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Displaying the results
Note the links to the full-text
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An example of a full-text article
note the link to the PDF version
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OVID also provides access to Books
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Lets look at the Lippincott Manual
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Use the search engine
or browse chapters
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(No Transcript)
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Waithow do I find books again?
Click Textbooks.
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Search by keywordor.click the subject
Since it was a nursing textbook.
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Heres the nursing book we looked at from OVID
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Health Business Fulltext Elite

• 450 well-known administrative journals
• health administration and other non-clinical
  aspects of health administrative management

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Choose EBSCOhost Web when logging in
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Scroll down the list until you see Health
Business Fulltext Elite
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Lets try a simple search medicare and the
elderly
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350 hits note the links to the full-text.
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Clicking the link to the PDF full-text takes us
to.
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Consumer Health InformationGale Health and
Wellness Resource Center
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HWRC consumer-oriented reference sources
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includes Micromedix CareNotes (6th grade
reading level)
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Internet Resource Guides
Internet sites organized by subject vetted by
librarians to ensure quality.
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Click a subject like neurology
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get a list of great web sites
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AzHealthInfo.org
Database of Arizona-related health information
limit to a specific location, or select a topic
and find AZ-related info.
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AzHealthInfo.org was developed for the Arizona
Turning Point Project
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AZ public health services arranged alphabetically
and by subject
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Having trouble searching?
Help with Searching
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Help Guides can be printed from the AZHIN site,
or glossy versions can be ordered free from
vendors
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The Arizona Health Information Network
http//www.azhin.org
Arizona Health Information Network, Inc. P.O.
Box 245080 Tucson, AZ 85724-5080 520/626-8287
Fax [phone] coordinator_at_azhin.org