New Look, More Features for ClinicalTrials.gov

ClinicalTrials.gov, the National Library of Medicine's web-based registry of approximately 47,000 clinical research studies, now has a new user interface and expanded features. The new interface provides more display options, including sponsor, size and age group. Search terms are now highlighted in results. The new "Studies by Topic" and "Study Topics" features group trials by four main categories: conditions, drug interventions, sponsors and locations. The map of study locations is also enhanced, allowing viewing of the number of registered trials in regions of the world for a specific search or for all studies in the database.

New Book for Medical Students

Hospital Survival: Lessons Learned in Medical Training, written by Grant Cooper, M.D., a resident at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, is now available in the library. It relates a number of amusing and often frightening stories of situations that have occurred during the first year of clinical rotations. The intention is that lessons learned by others, presented as "do's and don'ts" will allow a smoother path for the next generation of students. Take a look.

Human Genome Epidemiology Network (HuGENet)

Human Genome Epidemiology Network, or HuGENet™ is a global collaboration of individuals & organizations committed to the assessment of the impact of human genome variation on population health & how genetic information can be used to improve health & prevent disease. HuGENet™ collaborators come from multiple disciplines such as epidemiology, genetics, clinical medicine, policy, public health, education, and biomedical sciences.

The site offers HuGE Navigator, an integrated, searchable knowledge base of genetic associations and human genome epidemiology, including information on population prevalence of genetic variants, gene-disease associations, gene-gene and gene- environment interactions, and evaluation of genetic tests. Since 2001, HuGENet™ has maintained a database of published, population-based epidemiologic studies of human genes extracted from PubMed. The HuGE Navigator replaces earlier search tools for use with this database and provides additional applications for use by researchers and the public.

In addition, HuGENet provides an e-book, e-journal club, reviews, articles (full-text available if library subscribes), case studies, factsheets, and other publications.

POGOe

POGOe, a partner site of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ MedEdPORTAL, is an online clearinghouse of geriatric educational products. It provides educational materials to be used or adapted for individual learning environments. POGOe users include practicing physicians, clinician educators and physicians in training. Materials are indexed based on content area or learner type, and range from resources to aid in enhancement of patient assessment to pocket cards, web-based modules and virtual patient cases.

POGOe encourages users to submit educational products of their own, and provides a way for authors to gain feedback from end users about their experience.

Use the search field on the toolbar to perform a basic search. For a more specific search, click on "Advanced Search" where you may search by content area, learner type, and format.

POGOe requires that all users register with the site.

Hematology Teaching Cases

ASH Teaching Cases, found on the web site of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), presents fifteen case studies for use by medical students and hematology instructors. The interactive cases are designed to simulate the steps involved in diagnosing a patient, from taking a history to following the clinical course of the disease. Students are asked to consider the right questions to ask along the way, while explanatory text, graphics and a glossary provide information about the pathophysiology of the various diseases.

Instructors may link to or reference the sites of the individual cases, provided the links they create do not use ASH's trademark.

Find a Flu Clinic near you

The Flu (Influenza) Clinic Locator provided by The American Lung Association helps you search out Flu Clinics in your neighborhood. To find a flu clinic, enter your zip code into the Flu Clinic Locator. You will get the address, phone number, time and date the clinic is offering flu shots near you, as well as a map showing where the clinic is located.

New Style Guide for Medical Publishing

Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers is the new bibliographic reference e-book from the National Library of Medicine. It provides instructions and many examples for help in citing 26 types of published and unpublished materials, including databases, patents and unpublished papers. Appendices include commonly used abbreviations and notes for citing MEDLINE®/PubMed®

Currently available in HTML format, the book will be printable in Adobe Acrobat pdf format later this year.

Annual Reviews electronic back volumes

Through the the generosity of Mr. Norman Himelberg the library has purchased electronic back volumes to the entire Annual Reviews list of journals. You should be able to see the volumes on our A-Z Online Journal list. In coming weeks links in the library catalog, PubMed and Ovid Medline will be updated.

We do not have current subscriptions to all of the titles. For those journals you will need to request the article through the interlibrary loan office.

For more information you can contact Florence Schreibstein, x3110 or email

City Public Hospitals Disclose Record of Performance

The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) has released details of its record on certain key performance measures, including mortality and hospital-acquired infection rates. The data is available on the HHC website in a new section, HHC in Focus. Also posted is data on how often NYC public hospitals are following best clinical practices in treating conditions such as heart attacks and pneumonia, and how well public nursing homes are doing in reducing falls, bed sores and managing pain.

HHC in Focus presents the following safety and quality indicators:

• Annual mortality
• Adherence to best practice treatment for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia;
• 30-day mortality rates for heart attack and heart failure;
• Adherence to best practice treatment for prevention of surgical infection;
• Rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated bloodstream infection for critically ill patients;
• Rates of falls, pressure ulcers and effective pain management for long term care patients.

Summer Reading at a Different Pace

Tired of reading Science, JAMA, New England Journal or the latest textbook in your field? The library has a number of poetry books that may refresh you in the summer heat..The list includes:

Port of Call: selected poems. Alan Zisman, 2004 WZ 350/Z81p/2004
What Counts: poems. Jay Liveson, 2000 WZ 350/L785W 2000
Uncharted lines: poems from JAMA. Charlene Breedlove, ed. 1998 WZ 330/U54/1998
Articulations: the body and illness in poetry. John Mukand, ed. 1994 WZ 330/A791/1994
Hanging On: poems. Jay Liveson. 1998 WZ 350/L785h/1998

Other poetry works may be found in the same section of the book stacks as the works listed above.