Structured Abstract

 Structured Abstract: An essential tool for medical researchers

It covers:

Main headings: Objectives, Methods, Results, Conclusions

Research Question: It should be crystal clear as to what you wish to demonstrate/purpose of your research

What made your program a success?

Which form of teaching results in students searching effectively

Which information resources are used the most?

Objectives:

To demonstrate how this program was a success.

To determine if teaching MEDLINE in the class room teaching resulted in improved search skill.

To measure electronic resources usage at the campus increased during 2020 as a means for predicting future use

Methods/Design: Documenting your research steps

Prospective cohort study

Randomized controlled trial

Series of three focus groups 

Settings: 

Settings headings might be followed by the following sample statements:

A small library with one librarian and two technicians serving 400-bed hospital

A small research library that serves an MRI research facility owned by a health care corporation

An academic health sciences library serving a school of medicine, a college of nursing, and two allied sciences programs

Population:

First year medical students with no previous formal MEDLINE training

Third year internal medicine residents

All users of an academic health sciences library

Physicians and research scientists

Intervention: 

A 30-60 minute interview in the faculty members' offices

A  120 minute in-depth MEDLINE training session for the study group whereas the controlled group received only a 15-minutes overview session

The heading Exposure also has a specific research design meaning.

Some examples are:

Access to information resources during the 2002-2003 period

One 60-minutes required training session on MEDLINE search strategies

Teamwork training lasting two days for all managers

Results: Reporting your research

What you have discovered?

Source: MLA Publications 

 Planned Parenthood and Safe Abortion App

 

Hundreds of ‘predatory’ journals indexed on leading scholarly database 

Source:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00239-0

 Data Gravity

Data gravity is the ability of a body of data to attract applications, services and other data. The force of gravity, in this context,  can be thought of as the way software, services and business logic are drawn to data relative to its mass (the amount of data) Source: https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/data-gravity

Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (LILACS)

This virtual library is a comprehensive database of Health Sciences from Latin America and Caribbean Region. It has large number of records from peer reviewed journals, thesis and dissertations, government documents, books etc of those published since 1982.

This database covers systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials, evidence synthesis, health technology evaluation studies, economic evaluation studies, clinical practice guidelines, technical reports, case reports and other materials of significance for health care professionals.

This site is maintained and updated by a network comprising of over 600 educational, government and health research institutions coordinated by BIREME/PAHO/WHO.

BIREME stands for Biblioteca Regional de Medicina also known as the Regional Library of Medicine. It is a specialized center of the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization committed to technical cooperation in management of health scientific information. This center is situated in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It promotes democratization of access, publication and use of scientific information, knowledge and evidence.

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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

The PAHO is a specialized international health agency that works to improve and protect people's health. It engages in technical cooperation with its member countries to fight communicable and noncommunicable diseases and their causes, to strengthen health systems, and to respond to emergencies and disasters.

PAHO is committed to ensuring that all people have access to the health care they need, when they need it, with quality and without fear of falling into poverty. Through its work, PAHO promotes and supports the right of everyone to good health.

To advance these goals, PAHO promotes technical cooperation between countries and works in partnership with ministries of health and other government agencies, civil society organizations, other international agencies, universities, social security agencies, community groups, and other partners. PAHO promotes the inclusion of health in all public policies and the engagement of all sectors in efforts to ensure that people live longer, healthier lives, with good health as their most valuable resource.

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