Where to Vote?

Check this site from the Texas Secretary of State's office and VoteTexas.gov to determine your voting location.

Website Referenced
http://www.votetexas.gov/
https://team1.sos.state.tx.us/voterws/viw/faces/SearchSelectionPolling.jsp

VoteSmart.org for Candidate and Issue Information

Election Day! Just heard about a great resource for voters! VoteSmart.org compiles information on candidates and issues across the country.

Through their "Vote Easy" tool you can pull up those in your zip code to find out which candidates "are most like you." Through their "Politcal Galaxy" tool find out the complete background on a politician, including links to speeches! You can even set up a current awareness alert through "MyVoteSmart."

Information offered through Project Vote Smart is gathered by "thousands of citizens (conservative and liberal alike) working together, spending endless hours researching the backgrounds and records of thousands of political candidates and elected officials to discover their voting records, campaign contributions, public statements, biographical data (including their work history) and evaluations of them generated by over 100 competing special interest groups." Furthermore "No one can join Vote Smart's board without a political opposite."

Websites referenced
http://votesmart.org/

TSRHC Librarians Celebrate National Medical Librarians Month

Medical librarians are ready to help with your information need. From patient education in the Family Resource Center to current research journals in the Medical Library, the librarians offer both print and online resources that are accessible around the clock. Stop by or contact us!

Tachdjian's, NORD, Campbell's Now Available

Tachdjian’s Pediatric Orthopaedics 5th edition is now available online throughout the hospital!

We also now have access to Campbell’s Operative Orthopaedics 12th ed. via the library website – scroll down on the Online Catalog page to see a direct link.

Also, the Rare Disease Database from the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) is available for helpful patient education information.

Find Tachdjian's and NORD in the pink “Clinical Links” section of the Intranet Portal or through the Medical Library website under Databases or Online Catalog. Sorry, not available through remote access.

When you have finished with the book, please close it so someone else will be able to use it. If you have problems with the titles, please contact the Medical Library.

Websites Referenced
http://tsrhkids/intranet/
http://www.rarediseases.org/rare-disease-information/rare-diseases
http://www.rarediseases.org/
http://tsrhkids/mlibrary/databases.htm
http://tsrhkids/mlibrary/online_catalog.htm

AmazonSmile - a New Way to Support Your Favorite Charity

Are you an Amazon shopper? Consider using AmazonSmile as your shopping stop!

The company will donate 0.5% of your purchase price to a charity of your choice from a list of almost a million IRS-registered 503(c)(3) charities -- no cap, and most items are included except digital. The hospital is on the list!

Learn more about AmazonSmile and choose your charity!

Websites referenced
http://smile.amazon.com
https://org.amazon.com/
http://smile.amazon.com/gp/charity/change.html

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

NIH 3D Print Exchange for Biomedical Resources

The NIH 3D Print Exchange is "an open, comprehensive, and interactive website for searching, browsing, downloading, and sharing biomedical 3D print files, modeling tutorials, and educational material." Use a current browser such as Internet Explorer 11, Firefox or Chrome to view the models.

Website referenced
http://3dprint.nih.gov/