NAVTEQ Traffic Map

Are you enjoying the traffic map IS has provided near the Skybridge to the parking garage?

The NAVTEQ Traffic site provides a great visual resource for real time traffic conditions. It shows the DFW Metroplex with red, yellow, black, and green lines based on status.

To locate and use the map, select the "Traffic" tab at the site, then select Dallas-Fort Worth,TX. In the upper left corner of the map you will see a faint circle and squares that become active and let you move and focus the map for more detail on your area of interest.

Resources cited: www.navteq.com

Free Things on Your Birthday

Give yourself a gift by checking out this website that tries to track all the free meals, admissions, and gifts you can get on your birthday. Most require that you register for their email newsletter.


Site referenced: www.freebirthdaytreats.com
Source: Kim Komando's Cool Site of the Day 8-13-2010

MedlinePlus -- Most Popular Searches

MedlinePlus Introduces New Look

MedlinePlus has been redesigned to provide a more user-friendly experience. The new design premiers tomorrow, July 14. To locate where your favorite feature has moved, check out the homepage comparison page.

Sites referenced:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/preview/overview.html
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/preview/homepagecomparison.html

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

Search EBSCO Databases from Home

Want to search our EBSCO databases from home? CINAHL and MEDLINE are available by password (contact the librarian).

You won't be able to access all our full text content, but you can do searches. Select either CINAHL or MEDLINE one at a time for best results.

Sites referenced:
http://search.epnet.com

New Books in the Medical Library

Recent additions to our book collection. Find them on the new book shelves or I’ll be glad to deliver. Please be sure to sign the check out card and return them promptly so others can use, too.

Orthopaedic titles:
EPIPHYSEAL GROWTH PLATE FRACTURES. Hamlet Peterson. Reserve WE 200 P485 2007.

EVIDENCE-BASED ORTHOPAEDICS: THE BEST ANSWERS TO CLINICAL QUESTIONS. James Wright. Reserve WE 190 W951 2009.

INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE LECTURES: SPINE 2. Christopher Bono. Reserve WE 725 I586 2010.

ORTHOPAEDIC KNOWLEDGE UPDATE OKU: MUSCULOSKELETAL INFECTION. Musculoskeletal Infection Society. WO 185 M985 2009.

PAEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDICS: A SYSTEM OF DECISION-MAKING. Benjamin Joseph. Reserve WS 270 J83 2009.

PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDICS IN PRACTICE. Fritz Hefti. Reserve WS 270 H461 2007.

ROCKWOOD AND WILKINS’ FRACTURES IN CHILDREN. 7th ed. James Beaty. Reserve WE 175 R684 2010.

Several polio books:
LIVING WITH POLIO: THE EPIDEMIC AND ITS SURVIVORS. Daniel Wilson. WC 555 W747 2005.
THE POLIO YEARS IN TEXAS: BATTLING A TERRIFYING UNKNOWN. Heather Wooten. WC 555 W918 2009 plus copy in Historical Collection.
THE POST-POLIO EXPERIENCE: PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHTS AND COPING STRATEGIES FOR POLIO SURVIVORS AND THEIR FAMILIES. Margaret Backman. WC 555 B126 2006.

Other topics:
MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S COMPACT 5-LANGUAGE VISUAL DICTIONARY. Reference PE 1129 M568 2010. neat pictures can help cross language barriers

ROGERS’ TEXTBOOK OF PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE. 4th ed. David Nichols. Reserve WB 105 R729 2008. many interesting chapters relevant to surgical patient treatment such as nutritional support, respiratory support, neurologic monitoring, infections, evidence-based medicine,

FINNIE’S HANDLING THE YOUNG CHILD WITH CEREBRAL PALSY AT HOME. Eva Bower. WS 342 F514 2009.

A couple on health literacy:
HEALTH LITERACY: A PRESCRIPTION TO END CONFUSION. Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. WA 590 I59 2004.
MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION GUIDE TO HEALTH LITERACY. Marge Kars. WA 590 M489 2008.
(and if you are interested in this topic, see an article in JAMA, July 7, 2010 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20606152 )