Creating local bibliographic databases: new tools for evidence-based health care*

The Internet has created new opportunities for librarians to present literature search results to clinicians. In order to take full advantage of these opportunities, libraries need to create locally maintained bibliographic databases. A simple method of creating a local bibliographic database and publishing it on the Web is described. The method uses off-the-shelf software and requires minimal programming. A hedge search strategy for outcome studies of clinical process interventions is created, and Ovid is used to search MEDLINE. The search results are saved and imported into EndNote libraries. The citations are modified, exported to a Microsoft Access database, and published on the Web. Clinicians can use a Web browser to search the database. The bibliographic database contains 13,803 MEDLINE citations of outcome studies. Most searches take between four and ten seconds and retrieve between ten and 100 citations. The entire cost of the software is under $900. Locally maintained bibliographic databases can be created easily and inexpensively. They significantly extend the evidence-based health care services that libraries can offer to clinicians.

Computer-based patient monitoring systems /

Prepared under contract no. HSM 110-70-406.

Child care and guidance

"Completely rewritten text, based in part upon Care and guidance of children by Helen C. Goodspeed and Emma Johnson ... 1938."

Strangers in our fields. Based on a report regarding compliance with the contractual, legal, and civil rights of Mexican agricultural contract labor in the United States, made possible through a grant-in-aid from the Fund for the Republic.

Mode of access: Internet.

Mental depression : its cause and treatment : based on modern medical reform science and successful practical experience, lucidly explained for the purpose of self-treatment without medicine / y Richard J. Ebbard.

Mode of access: Internet.

Employment-based health insurance : medium and large employers can purchase coverage, but some workers are not eligible : report to Congressional committees /

"B-278073"--P. 1.

Annual report on long term care.

Description based on: 1984.

Community Based Residential Facilities Demonstration Project.

"Public Act 89-530 requires the Illinois Dept. on Aging to report annually to the General Assembly regarding its efforts to implement a Community Based Residential Facilities Demonstration Project (CBRFDP). The goal of the project is to reduce Medicaid expenditures for long-term care by allowing individuals to remain in a community setting, rather than reside in a nursing facility, thus reducing the dependency upon Medicaid."

Fiscal year ... Illinois salary and staffing survey : child care centers and family child care home providers /

The Illinois Dept. of Human Services is required by the legislative rule (20 ILCS 505/5.15) to conduct a survey of licensed child care facilities every two years.

Illinois families now and forever : families by foster care, adoption and guardianship /

Expands the audience served by the Fostering Illinois newsletter (which provided DCFS policy updates and other useful information for foster families), to include adoptive and guardianship families.

Inventory of health care facilities and need determinations by planning area /

Description based on: 1985; title from cover.

Mealtime minutes : your link to the child and adult care food program.

Mode of access: Internet.

Nursing Home Care Act, Abused and Neglected Long Term Care Facility Residents Reporting Act : report to the General Assembly /

Description based on: 1993; title from cover.

Report to the General Assembly on the Nursing Home Care Reform Act of 1979 as amended.

Description based on: 1986 (April 1, 1987); title from cover.