Welcome to the May edition of the CIAP Newsletter
Welcome to our second edition. We would like to thank
everyone for the positive response to our first CIAP newsletter. It was good to hear
that you enjoyed reading the newsletter and your comments were appreciated. Please continue to
provide feedback and don’t forget you can subscribe as an individual by sending an email to CIAP.
This month’s newsletter includes an update on the CIAP renewal process, information on the PDA resources available for download and an explanation of the OVID Medline database segments. Recent CIAP product changes are also highlighted.
Happy reading from the CIAP Team!
Inside this issue:
"Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up.
It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion."
Daniel J. Boorstin
The CIAP Renewal for 2007 – 2008
It’s that time again when the annual CIAP renewal process gets underway.
This year the resources were reviewed in consultation with the Knowledge Management Reference Group who
confirmed all resources should be renewed. Unfortunately new resources were not considered due to price increases.
Further consultation will take place with the
Area Health Services before the renewal is complete for a July 1 commencement.
The Quality & Safety Branch have committed to renew the following journals:
- International Journal for Quality in Healthcare
- Quality & Safety in Healthcare
- The Emerald Healthcare Suite (which includes Clinical Governance and three other titles)
This will commence on 1st July 2007 and we would like to thank them for their
ongoing support of CIAP.
As part of the renewal process, statistics were reviewed and it was
extremely pleasing to note that there continues to be a substantial growth with a 49% increase this year to March.
Further information on statistics can be found on the CIAP Usage Statistics page under About
CIAP from the top menu.
It's CIAPs 10th Birthday in July. Let’s celebrate!!!
A major milestone will be celebrated in July when CIAP turns
10. In our 10th year our goals to improve access to decision support, support evidence-based health
care, reduce adverse events, improve clinical knowledge and improve communications between
clinician groups remain the same.
To give you an idea of how CIAP has grown we have included this miniature version of the CIAP usage graph. It demonstrates how CIAP usage has grown from virtually
nothing in March 1998 to over 5 million hits per month in March 2007. This is a fantastic achievement!
We are planning special events to mark this occasion
and to acknowledge the contributions of CIAP supporters over the past 10 years. The next 10 years will be
even better.
"Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom."
Merry Browne
Download these CIAP resources to your PDA
Once you have logged in to CIAP you can download a
number of products to your PDA:
Micromedex on PDA
Micromedex on PDA is free for CIAP users and (available from
the CIAP left side menu under Micromedex) gives you information at a summary level for Drugs,
Disease, Toxicology, IV Compatibility and Drug Interactions. If you
need to drill down further you will need to login to Micromedex on the front page of CIAP as the memory required on a PDA is not sufficient.
TNM MobileEdition - Free download of to all CIAP users
TNM MobileEdition 2.0
is the electronic version of the
International Union Against Cancer's (UICC) global cancer staging standard, TNM Classification of
Malignant Tumours 6th Edition, for use on all PalmOS personal handheld computers. In addition to
the complete text of this valuable resource, TNM MobileEdition includes the following bonus features:
- The first mobile, interactive tumour staging calculator. Automatically stage disease progression
by entering the T, N, and M components for a patient
- Save patient-specific staging information directly to your Palm OS notepad.
- Explanatory text from the TNM Supplement is integrated into each anatomical site record.
System Requirements
- Compatible with Palm Operating Systems 3.0 and higher.
- Application size: 264Kb
TNM MobileEdition 2.0
"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To
know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
OVID MEDLINE segments
 The CIAP menu includes the 4 main options to cover all
searchable data available in the MEDLINE database so as to avoid having to change databases
too often to search the complete data.
The four options are:-
- 1996 - present
- 1950 - present
- OLDMEDLINE 1950 to 1965
- PREMEDLINE
- PubMed
OVID has provided the following information about the Old
Medline and PreMedline segments which are available on the CIAP menu.
Old Medline
An archive of records that existed before MeSH terms
and other current NLM data quality standards. As a result, these records cannot be given MEDLINE
status. We have created this separate segment for older records until NLM updates them.
For the 2007 Ovid Medline reload, we rebuilt Ovid
OldMedline to have the same configurations and functionality as Ovid Medline, complete
with limits and MeSH browsing when available. However, OldMedline records have less indexed
information than modern records, and as a result some of the limits return fewer or no results.
For complete information about OldMedline data,
see the NLM website.
PreMedline In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations
Note: map term to subject heading not available
– this is a Keyword Search database only
A database of partially indexed records that provides basic
citation information and abstracts. PreMedline records have not been indexed with MeSH terms
and other indexer-added data. New records get added to PreMedline every day. NLM assigns a
value to each record to indicate their point in processing: In-Process, In-Data-Review, and
PubMed-not-Medline.
Currently, Ovid does not receive records with a value
of “Publisher” or “Epub Ahead of Print” from NLM.
"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not
know."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Direct Linking from OVID Citation Databases to Article for Non-OVID Titles
CIAP is extremely pleased to announce that direct
linking to full-text articles is now available for Non-OVID titles including MD Consult, Nursing
Consult, Lancet, Springer, Highwire and Wiley journals. We would like to make a special
mention of Shirley Farquhar from OVID and Paul BouAntoun from HCN for all their hard
work and dedication to make this possible.
CIAP Training News
Check out the new look training schedule, including
face-to-face CIAP presentations and OVID webex training dates for the coming months, at
http://www.hcn.com.au/ use/ciap/schedule.html
CIAP training coming soon to a location near you in May and June:
- Tweed
- Lismore
- Bega
- Warren
- Bathurst
- Lightning Ridge
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- Moruya
- Cooma
- Dubbo
- Orange
- Broken Hill
- Dunedoo
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Do you want to book some face to face training
sessions? The 2007-2008 calendar is being compiled so get in early with your preferred
dates. For further information/booking contact Victoria -
victoria.gardner@hcn.com.au
Phone: 0411257443
"Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to the
law of diminishing returns."
John Maurice Clark
Ovid has recently welcomed back Allan Finn, who will offer training for clients
who aren’t close to a regional centre via a web-based system called WebEx. WebEx
allows a live Ovid session on the screen and discussion on a shared teleconference. All you
need is an internet connection and a nearby telephone. The teleconference access is charged
as a local call, so there are no long distance fees. The machine which you use for the WebEx
internet session needs to have a browser (IE or Netscape) and have Java installed.
If you would like to request web-based or
face-to-face Ovid training, please do not hesitate to contact CIAP or
Belinda.sharp@wolterskluwer.com
from OVID.
And don’t forget you are not alone….
If you ever have any questions about Ovid, or the Ovid
databases, journals and books, OVID is available to answer your questions. The support email
address is ausupport@ovid.com
send them a message during business hours to receive immediate help.
Review of training - coming soon
We will be undertaking a review of the training
and will be conducting focus groups to find out how we can best provide training. Further
information will be available in the coming months.
"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your
ignorance."
Confucius
New CIAP Resources and Changes
BMJ Cinical Evidence– move from OVID to BMJ Platform
BMJ Clinical Evidence is one of the world's most authoritative
medical resources for informing treatment decisions and improving patient care. It includes Drug
Safety Alerts on the front page and an explanation of the EBM Tools used in Clinical Evidence. There are
modules available for improving your understanding of statistics or diagnostics tests including
‘How to Organise a Research Project from Scratch’ or ‘Understanding
Statistics: Tips for Hospital Doctors’.
From June 1 until June 30 access will be
available from the left hand menu on the front page of CIAP under ‘Evidence Based
Practice’ to both the OVID and BMJ interfaces. After 30 June we will switch off the link
to OVID.
Download the
User Guide for BMJ Clinical Evidence
featuring illustrations and examples of how to navigate the site.
New OVID titles
The following titles have been added to CIAP:
- Advances in Neonatal Care (1/1 OCT/2001 - present)
- Contact Lens Spectrum (1/1 1986 - present)
- Emergency Medicine News (23/1 JAN/2001 - present)
- ENToday (1/1 JAN/2006 - present)
- Eyecare Business (1/1 JAN/1999 - present)
- Oncology Times (23/1 JAN/2001 - present)
- OR Nurse (1/1 JAN/07 - present)
- RETINAL Cases & Brief Reports (1/1 WINTER/2007 - present)
- The Hearing Journal (54/1 JAN/2001 - present)
- Ophthalmology Management (1/1 JAN/1997 - present)
- Optometric Management (1/1 JAN/1966 - present)
- Retinal Physician (1/1 JAN/2004 - present)
- The Cancer Journal (8/1 JAN-FEB/2002 - present)
Journal Title Changes
- Current Opinion in Endocrinology and Diabetes (LWW) is
now Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes & Obesity
- The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine (Elsevier) is
now Translational Research: The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine.
MD Consult
New Titles and Editions:
- PET Clinics (Jan 2006 – present)
- Sleep Medicine Clinics (Mar 2006 – present)
- Ultrasound Clinics (Jan 2006 – present)
- Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 8th edition (2006 Saunders); replacing the 2002 7th edition
- The Osler Medical Handbook, 2nd edition (2006 Johns Hopkins University); replacing the 2003 1st edition
Nursing Consult
New Titles and Editions:
- AORN Journal (Jan 2001 – present)
- Journal for Nurse Practitioners, (July 2005 – present)
- Wong's Clinical Manual of Pediatric Nursing, 6th edition
Therapeutic Guidelines - Oral and Dental
A new book in the Therapeutic Guidelines series, Oral
and Dental, was released in January and will be available electronically in the July update of
eTG complete. Written in collaboration with the Australian Dental Association, for more information
and a full listing of content see: http://tg.com.au/products/dtg.html .
"Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months."
Anthony J. D'Angelo
For any assistance with any of these services
please call the CIAP Help Desk.
We hope that you have enjoyed this newsletter. If you have something that you would
like published in CIAP NEWS, please send an email to the CIAP Team.
The next issue will be available in July 2007.
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