Consumer Health Information on the Internet MedlinePlus and other Resources With the Health Professional in Mind Created & presented by: Jacqueline Leskovec, MLIS, MA, RN Librarian, University of South Florida Area Health Education Center Gulfcoast North AHEC, Inc. • University of South Florida AHEC • All Children’s Hospital
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Consumer Health Information on the InternetMedlinePlus and other Resources
With the Health Professional in Mind
Created & presented by:
Jacqueline Leskovec, MLIS, MA, RN
Librarian, University of South Florida Area Health Education Center
Created & presented by:
Jacqueline Leskovec, MLIS, MA, RN
Librarian, University of South Florida Area Health Education Center
Gulfcoast North AHEC, Inc. • University of South Florida AHEC • All Children’s Hospital
Supported by National Library of Medicine contract N01-LM-1-3522 as a subcontract from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
Objectives
• Learn the types of consumer health information available on the Internet
• Learn the differences between MedlinePlus and PubMed
• Learn three ways of using MedlinePlus to find health information
Introduction
Guides to Healthy Surfing
• Authoritative: Consider the source
• Qualitative: How do you know?
• Currency: Is it up-to-date?
• Purpose/bias?
• Privacy Issues
• HONcode principles of the Health On the Net Foundation.
Anatomy of a URL
• URL: uniform resource locator
• http: hypertext transfer protocol
• What’s in a domain?
• com, edu, gov, org, dot, dot, dot…
General Reference Tools
• Search Engines and Indexes– Google– Yahoo– Vivisimo
• Dictionaries– Merriam Webster Online
• Encyclopedias– Britannica Online– encyclopedia.com
Health Information Sites
• Topic Specific Sites– American Diabetic Association– Alzheimer's Association
• Health Megasites– CDC– HealthWeb– HealthFinder
Nursing Resource
• CINAHL®: Cumulative index to nursing and allied health literature– Over one million records as of 2004
• Over 15 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and additional life science journals
• Include links to many full text articles and other resources
• “Public MEDLINE”
What is MEDLINE?
• MEDLINE is NLM's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, the preclinical sciences, and some other areas of the life sciences.
• Contains citations, not full-text articles.
Anatomy of a Citation
Orthop Nurs.
2004 Mar-Apr;
23 (2) :101-5.
Use of backpacks in children and adolescents.
Dale JC.
• Journal title (abbr)• Date• Volume, Issue, pages