UTSW Orthopaedics Portal - eBooks and eJournals!

An Orthopaedics Portal to electronic books, journals and websites has been created for you by the medical librarian who is the UTSW Library’s liaison to their Orthopaedics Department, Helen Mayo. If you are on staff there and have active login credentials, you can reach those books and journals. 

They have eBooks we do not have, such as Green’s Skeletal Trauma in Children (5^th ed, 2015) and a couple of very new spine surgery books (Spine Surgery, 3^rd ed., 2018, and Benzel’s Spine Surgery, 4^th ed., 2017).

In sports medicine they have a nice list of journal titles plus three sports medicine books (Drez and Drez, 4^th ed., 2015; Nuclear Medicine and Radiologic Imaging in Sports Injuries, 2015; and Surgical Techniques of the Shoulder, Elbow, and Knee in Sports Medicine, 2^nd ed., 2013).  Take a look at the Total Joints section for even more knee books.  

Look at the Portals tab for more lists of resources, including an excellent section on evidence-based medicine. She’s done a great job!

You can find a link to the portal on your OpenAthens home page, bottom of the center panel. If you go to the UTSW Library home page you will also see a Portals tab near the top.  

Websites Referenced

http://library.utsouthwestern.edu/portals/orthopaedic/main.cfm?home

http://library.utsouthwestern.edu/portals/ebpp/main.cfm?home

http://auth.athensams.net/my/

http://library.utsouthwestern.edu/index.cfm

Systematic Review Series in AJN

"Systematic Reviews, Step by Step" is a series offered in AJN, American Journal of Nursing. It comes from the Joanna Briggs Institute, an international collaborative supporting evidence-based practice in nursing, medicine and allied health.

The initial March, 2014, article provided an overview. "A systematic review does not seek to create new knowledge but rather to synthesize and summarize existing knowledge, and therefore relevant research must already exist on the topic."

Articles in the series:

1st The Systematic Review: An Overview
2nd Developing the Review Question and Inclusion Criteria (PICO)
3rd Constructing a Search Strategy and Searching for Evidence: a Guide to the Literature Search for a Systematic Review
4th Study Selection and Critical Appraisal
5th Data Extraction and Synthesis
6th (final) Presenting and Interpreting Findings

Series authors include Edoardo Aromataris, director of synthesis science at the Joanna Briggs Institute in the School of Translational Health Science, University of Adelaide, South Australia; and Alan Pearson, former executive director and founder of the Joanna Briggs Institute.

Websites Referenced
http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&CSC=Y&NEWS=N&PAGE=toc&SEARCH=00000446-201403000-00000.kc&LINKTYPE=asBody&LINKPOS=1&D=ovft
http://joannabriggs.org/jbi-approach.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24572533
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24681476
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24759479
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24869584
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25742352
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25075699

Originally published 2-27-2014, updated 10-27-2016mp

Systematic Reviews - free articles from Joanna Briggs Institute

Focusing on the systematic review process, this month's issue of International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare is offered free by the Joanna Briggs Institute and Lippincott Williams Wilkins. The Joanna Briggs Institute has been collaborating for almost 20 years to identify and promote "best evidence to inform your clinical decision-making at the point of care."1  

Websites Referenced

http://journals.lww.com/ijebh/toc/2015/09000
http://journals.lww.com/ijebh/Pages/aboutthejournal.aspx
http://joannabriggs.org/
http://journals.lww.com/ijebh/Fulltext/2015/09000/Now_that_we_re_here,_where_are_we__The_JBI.2.aspx

1 Prof Alan Pearson  http://joannabriggs.org/about.html

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Research Papers

Interested in papers prepared by candidates for the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)?

UT Health Science Center at San Antonio Library’s Digital Archives 

offers free access to DNP Inquiries created by their students. 

The Virginia Henderson Repository, a resource of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, collects and shares nursing research and evidence-based practice materials, including those related to the DNP. 

Websites Referenced

http://www.aacn.nche.edu/media-relations/fact-sheets/dnp

http://digitalarchive.uthscsa.edu

http://library.uthscsa.edu/2011/09/etd/

http://www.nursinglibrary.org/vhl/

Systematic Reviews - Application to Clinical Practice

The latest entry in JAMA's valuable "Users' Guides to the Medical Literature" series says "clinical decisions should be based on the totality of the best evidence and not the results of individual studies." This article addresses how to determine the credibility of a systematic review and assess confidence in the evidence using a handy set of questions as a "Guide for Appraising and Applying the Results of a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis."

"In 1994, a Users’ Guide on how to use an overview article was published in JAMA and presented a framework for critical appraisal of systematic reviews. In retrospect, this framework did not distinguish between 2 very different issues: the rigor of the review methods and the confidence in estimates (quality of evidence) that the results warrant. The current Users’ Guide reflects the evolution of thinking since that time and presents a contemporary conceptualization."

References
Murad M, Montori VM, Ioannidis JA, et al. How to Read a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis and Apply the Results to Patient Care: Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature. JAMA. 2014;312(2):171-179. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.5559. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1886196

http://jama.jamanetwork.com and put "Users' Guides to the Medical Literature" in the search box

Oxman AD, Cook DJ, Guyatt GH, et al. Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: VI. How to Use an Overview. JAMA. 1994;272(17):1367-1371. doi:10.1001/jama.1994.03520170077040.
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=381796
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7933399

PICO Search Site from MEDLINE -- and Other Mobile Device-friendly NLM Resources

NLM's mobile PICO MEDLINE search page has a new location. The page offers a form that helps you clarify your thoughts and compose a workable research question using the categories of Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome. Then the topics are searched in MEDLINE. The page is designed to be mobile-device friendly. More mobile friendly resources, such as MedlinePlus and a couple of disaster-related resources are also available from NLM.



Websites referenced:
http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/
http://go.usa.gov/xFb
http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/nlmd/pico/piconew.php

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mobile/

CINAHL and Evidence-Based Practice Searching

Using CINAHL for an evidence-based practice search? Check out this valuable evidence-based searching tool from the Tompkins-McCaw Library at Virginia Commonwealth. They have gathered terms into filters you can cut and paste into your CINAHL search to limit results to:

diagnosis
etiology
prognosis
therapy
meta-analysis
qualitative research

These search filters were developed by librarians at the University of Rochester and Ann McKibbon and Cindy Walker-Dilks of McMaster University.

CINAHL has an option under "advanced search" to select "evidence-based practice." This will get research articles and those about EBP or in EBP journals.

Sites referenced:
http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/bibs/nursingevidencefilters.html

http://support.ebsco.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=3112