Free Webinar: Advances in the Use of Electronic Clinical Data for Prospective Patient Centered Outcomes Research

Learn About Uses of Electronic Clinical Data for Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR)
Registration Now Open for a FREE Webinar: Advances in the Use of Electronic Clinical Data for Prospective Patient Centered Outcomes Research
August 17, 2011, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (Eastern) - 11-12:30 MST

AcademyHealth’s Electronic Data Methods (EDM) Forum is a three-year grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to collect, synthesize, and share lessons learned from current projects using electronic clinical data for comparative effectiveness research (CER) and patient centered outcomes research (PCOR).

This session will highlight eleven research projects that are participating in the Forum. These projects are building infrastructure and methods for collecting and analyzing prospective electronic clinical data to advance the science of CER and PCOR, as well as improve the quality of clinical care and enhance clinical decision support.

Updates on four grant programs will be provided, including:

1. the Prospective Outcome Systems using Patient-specific Electronic data to Compare Tests and therapies (PROSPECT) studies;
2. the Enhanced Registries for Quality Improvement and CER;
3. the Scalable Distributed Research Networks for CER; and
4. the EDM Forum.

Panelists Dr. Peter Tarczy-Hornoch (University of Washington Medical Center), Dr. John Steiner (Kaiser Permanente Colorado), Dr. Adam Wilcox (Columbia University) will discuss the important scientific, organizational, clinical, technical, and data governance challenges related to implementing CER and PCOR. Dr. Erin Holve (AcademyHealth) will discuss the EDM Forum’s activities to synthesize lessons from the projects as well as engage stakeholders and disseminate the tools, techniques and findings from the projects to advance the science and application of CER and PCOR. The panelists will also address ways in which collaboration among projects will further the objective of building a learning health care system. Dr. Gurvaneet Randhawa (AHRQ) will moderate the panel.

Registration for this session is free, but space is limited. For more information contact edmforum@academyhealth.org.

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New Strategies for Engaging Consumers in Development and Use of Evidence
September 14, 2011, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (Eastern)

Interesting info about doctors & mobile usage

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GreyWorks 2011, Ten Strategies for Grey Literature

Summer Workshop Series on Grey Literature

“Ten Strategies for Grey Literature”

Amsterdam, 9 September 2011

http://www.greynet.org/greyworks2011.html

GreyWorks 2011 is the 3rd Workshop in the Summer Series focusing on ten strategies in grey literature carried out by researchers in Europe and North America. The works covered are by GreyNet Award Recipients and Authors in the book entitled ‘Grey Literature in Library and Information Studies’ published by De Gruyter|Saur, 2010. The strategies or inroads to grey literature deal with ● specific subject areas and disciplines ● various document types in electronic and print formats ● open access and business models ● supply-side publishing and demand-side access, as well as ● quality assessment and curriculum development in this expanding field of information.

GreyWorks 2011 is geared to information professionals and practitioners involved in the areas of policy development and management of grey literature collections, the production and publication of grey literature, and in research and education in library and information sciences. For newcomers to grey literature, GreyWorks 2011 will bring you up to speed with the state of the art in the field. For the vanguard in grey literature, this workshop will explore current research initiatives and challenge you to rethink existing strategies. GreyWorks 2011 is a mix of formal presentation, exercises, and informal discussion. During the afternoon wrap-up, participants will together draft a consensus document indicating future trends and directions for grey literature.

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GreyWorks 2010, Supply and Demand of Grey Literature, Washington D.C.

GreyWorks 2009, Benchmarks and Forecasts on Grey Literature, Amsterdam

Webinar Recording: Transforming Our e-Learning 'Worst Practices' into Excellent Teaching

The presentation focuses on innovative technology and pedagogical methods to overcome systemic flaws and limitations in online learning, and will help solve problems we as educators have introduced into our own teaching and learning. Dr. Kazmer will discuss approaches that incorporate appropriate technology and take advantage of the systemic strengths of distributed learning environments.

View the webinar here.

More details about this session can be found here.

JAMA Reviews Health Libraries Management Book

If you subscribe to MEDLIB, you might have seen that JAMA has given a very complimentary review to the newly published revised edition of The Medical Association Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries. This was one of the books in the publication pipeline when I was on the MLA Books Panel, and I was very impressed by the sample chapter I read; the authors/editors (Margaret Bandy and Roz Dudden) are good, clear writers and they know their subject well. I think anyone with library management responsibilities will want to take this to the beach this summer (OK, maybe not, but we should have it in the collection).

Authorship for Health Sciences Librarians

ICMJE definition:

“Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published. Authors should meet conditions 1, 2, and 3.”

From: Ethical Considerations in the Conduct and Reporting of Research: Authorship and Contributorship, at http://www.icmje.org/ethical_1author.html

Authorship

• If a conference presentation is based on original research and you are one of its authors
• In a systematic review, if you made a unique and substantial contribution - i.e. data collection, writing up methodology
• If listed as an author, need to at least see and have the chance to contribute.
• Considerations on listing authors and the order of authors may be different when working with ourselves or working with patrons (other health care professionals)
• Orders of authors: last could be PI or supervisor, first could be project lead (this seems to be the norm in our literature, this is negotiable and variable
• It may be a requirement to indicate different roles of authors by certain journals.

Acknowledgements

• If publication is tangential to original research
• In systematic review, if you acted as a consultant instead of primary data collector

Odd Web of Science behaviour on Internet Explorer 9

Hi all,
I don't know if this is a problem with the client's laptop or if it a Web of Science and/or Internet Explorer 9 problem but this is a FYI in case you encounter something similar.

I ran a search in WoS on my desktop, which my doc tried to duplicate. However, on his computer, the search results did not display (that part of the screen remained blank) even though the other parts displayed properly. He was running IE 9 while I was running IE 8. I clicked the Compatibility View icon on his computer and that fixed it! In case you're not aware of it, it's the little box beside the URL line that looks like a broken page icon.