UpToDate Patient Information

This tutorial will show you how to locate evidence based patient information documents in the UpToDate database. In order to clearly view this tutorial, please click on the rectangular icon in the upper right hand corner of the document. Also, you can find a link to the UpToDate patient information page in the right hand column of the Beyond WebMD blog. After viewing this tutorial, please provide feedback relating to how well this helped you understand where to find the patient information documents in UpToDate. Any questions or comments are welcome.


Tutorial UpToDate

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Scholarly Review Articles

This tutorial will take you through the process of locating open access, peer reviewed, scholarly review articles in the PubMed Central database. In order to clrealy view this tutorial, please click on the rectangular icon in the upper right hand corner of the document. Also, you can find a link to the PubMed Central article database in the right hand corner of the Beyond WebMD blog. After viewing this tutorial, please provide feedback relating to how well this helped you understand where to find the open access, scholarly review articles in PubMed. Any questions or comments are welcome.


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Prescribing Information

This tutorial will walk you through the steps necessary to locate a product's updated prescribing information from the product website. In order to clearly view this tutorial, please click on the rectangular icon in the right hand corner of the document. This will bring up a full page view of the tutorial. After viewing this tutorial, please provide feedback relating to how well this helped you understand where to find the most current prescribing information. Any questions or comments are welcome.


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Dive In, Inform Thyself, Fear Not

This is an Audio Cast talking about the relevance of evidence based medical information to the patient. It is a call to librarians to be advocates of this type of information and it gives a short description of this type of information as prelude to the Beyond WebMD tutorials. Simply click on the title to listen to the Audio Cast. After listening to this Audio Cast, please comment or ask questions regrading your views of quality medical resources. Feel free to suggest any other sources that you may be aware of.

Beyond WebMD: An Educational Series

It is widely known that the internet contains an abundance of information surrounding the medical treatment of disease. People use the internet to search for medical treatment solutions more today than ever before. Websites like WebMD are being advertised during primetime television hours and they dominate the health search environment. Even though, as librarians, we recognize these commercial sites as valid sources of medical information, we should not become complacent with our ability and desire to help people find what they indeed need when it comes to medical treatment information. With the baby boomers beginning to reach the age where health concerns are becoming more of a focal point, being able to navigate this web of information will continue to be an important library service. For a myriad of reasons, people will more frequently desire to intelligently discuss treatment options with their physicians. In many cases, the reference librarian at the local public library will be asked to assist in this search for quality medical information. The public librarian will not be armed with expensive subscriptions to powerful medical databases and will have to operate at the ground level with information that the public library patron can access as well. It is important that the reference librarian be able to convey to the patron that he or she can in fact “go beyond WebMD” to locate freely accessible, evidence based information that will enable them to review the same disease state information and treatment options that in many instances their physicians are looking at.