A new website from the National Institutes of Health may help you promote clinical trial participation. NIH Clinical Research Trials and You aims to educate patients and families about clinical trials, why they matter, and how to participate.
A section on The Basics answers questions like:
- What are clinical trials and why do people participate?
- What do I need to know if I am thinking about participating?
Volunteer Stories offers short videos of trial participants speaking about their experiences. Educational Resources links to information in Spanish, and special information about the participation of children and the elderly.
Information for healthcare providers includes:
- How to Refer Your Patient
For help with patient education or any other information need, please contact
Hahnemann Library at 215-762-7184 or Queen Lane Library at 215-991-8740.
Have you searched for an hour without finding the information you’re looking for? Stop! It’s time to visit, phone, email, or chat with a librarian!
We welcome opportunities to put our specialized knowledge to work for you.
- We are comfortable with advanced search techniques
- We can delve into resources you’ve never heard about before.
Ideally, we combine your subject knowledge with our search expertise to form a powerful team. This can be done by working together at keyboard. If a library visit isn’t possible, we can team up by phone or chat, with the librarian “walking you through” a search. We also perform delegated searching; just tell us what you need, with enough explanation to enable us to recognize it when we see it.
For help with search challenges or any other information need, contact us at
Hahnemann Library: 215-762-7184 — OR — Queen Lane Library: 215-991-8740
Recently Faculty of 1000 (F1000) created a ranking based on F100′s mission: to present “the top published articles in biology and medicine selected and evaluated by our Faculty” of 10,000 experts.
The F1000 Journal Factor (FFj) measures how well a specific journal is performing on F1000, indicating where F1000 experts think the best research is being published in each specialty. Accompanying each FFj ranking is a link showing which articles contributed to a journal’s place in the rankings.
Faculty of 1000 appears in our Database list. Try this link to take a look. On the red banner at the top of the screen, select the “Rankings” tab. On the left-hand sidebar, below “Journal Rankings”, select “Current” to see the latest rankings.
For comparison, the Libraries also offer rankings based on citation counts: Journal Citation Reports, from the publishers of Science Citation Index.
For questions on journal rankings or any other information need, please contact us at: Hahnemann Library: 215-762-7184 OR Queen Lane Library: 215-991-8740.
The library’s AccessMedicine subscription now includes clinical cases selected from the well-known LANGE Case File series, edited by Eugene C. Toy, MD. Cases are available in both preclinical and clinical areas ranging from Anatomy to Surgery.
Learners read the case, test their knowledge by answering questions, and read review materials using the “Approach” and “Clinical Pearls” tabs.
Try it! Open AccessMedicine and click Case Files on the dark blue bar at the top ot the page. Click “View by Specialty” to select a topic area such as OB/Gyn. Then scan the list of case topics such as Amenorrhea or Cervical Cancer.
AccessMedicine has limited “seats”, so if you receive a “maximum users” message, try again later.
For easy future access, there is a Quick Link to AccessMedicine on the Health Sciences Libraries home page at http://www.library.drexel.edu/healthsciences .
For help with AccessMedicine Case Files or any other information need, please contact us at:
Hahnemann Library: 215-762-7184 OR Queen Lane Library: 215-991-8740
Haz-Map is offered by the Specialized Information Services branch of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), as part of its Environmental Health and Toxicology services. It can be used for questions like:
• What adverse effects may occur in workers using disinfectants?
• What job tasks are connected to heavy metal poisoning?
• Which work-related diseases tend to occur in plumbers?
For answers, try the option lists under Browse Haz-Map on the Search Haz-Map page:
• Under Hazardous Agents click By Types of Agents, then click Other Uses to find Biocides/Disinfectants. Click one to see adverse effects.
• Under Occupational Diseases, click By Types of Diseases to find Heavy Metal Poisoning. Click a specific type to see related job tasks.
• Under High Risk Jobs, click Alphabetical and click P to find Plumbers. Click a job task to see associated diseases.
For easy future access, there is a link to NLM’s Environmental Health/Toxicology site in the Health Sciences Libraries’ Subject Guide on Public Health.
For help with Haz-Map or any other information need, please contact us at:
Hahnemann Library: 215-762-7184 OR Queen Lane Library: 215-991-8740
AARS GoldMiner® is a free, Internet-based search engine for quickly locating high quality radiology images from peer-reviewed journals.
To find an image from AARS GoldMiner’s®collection of nearly 250,000 images,
- Search a disease name, imaging finding, or anatomic feature.
- Use the advanced search feature to filter the results by imaging modality (CT, MRI, X-ray, etc.), patient age, and patient sex.
Results will include thumbnail images with a partial caption for each image retrieved.
- Click a thumbnail to view a full-size image with complete caption from the original journal’s website
- A link offers to obtain a “PowerPoint Slide for Teaching.”
- Source and title of the article where the image appears is displayed. Click the title to open full-text of the article.
AARS GoldMiner® is optimized for mobile devices.
A link to AARS Goldminer® has been added to the library’s Radiology Subject Guide (under “Other Resources”) for easy future access.
Have questions about ARRS Goldminer® or any other information need? Please call: Hahnemann Library: 215-762-7184 OR Queen Lane Library: 215-991-8740
DynaMed is a ‘point-of-care’ clinical reference tool that provides evidence-based summaries for over 3,200 clinical topics, with daily updates. Update features introduced in July include:
- The “Recent Updates” page can be filtered to show results for a specialty like Critical Care, and can be further filtered to show Practice-Changing Updates Only
- Personal email alerts can be set up for a specialty, with the option of receiving Practice-Changing Updates only.
To create a personal alert,
- Click “Recent Updates” on the blue bar at top of DynaMed screen.
- Select a specialty using the “limit by category” menu. If you wish, check “Practice Changing Updates Only”.
- Click the Alert icon (ringing bell) in the Tools section on the right side of the screen.
- Select alert frequency. “Once/day” is the only option now; weekly and monthly choices will be available this Fall.
• Add your e-mail address, then click “Create Alert”
• Follow the instructions in your e-mail to confirm you want to receive these alerts.
For easy access to DynaMed, there is a Quick Link on the Health Sciences Libraries home page. Instructions for setting up DynaMed on a mobile device are available at: https://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/guides/healthsciencesguides/dynamed-for-pdas/:
Have questions about DynaMed alerts or any other information need? Please call:
Hahnemann Library: 215-762-7184 OR Queen Lane Library: 215-991-8740
