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What's New From MLA
Sarah Sutton
Clinical Librarian
University Hospitals Leicester
What I am going to talk
about
• A brief explanation of MLA
• Information from presentations I attended
that would be useful to librarians working
in outreach, CL, informationist or
embedded librarian roles
• How to get the best from MLA – part 1
What is MLA
• Its not a conference, it’s the
Annual Meeting of the US
Medical Library Association.
• Anyone can join the MLA and
there are quite a few
international members
• International members get a
discounted rate and MLA
membership in turn gives you
a discount on attending the
MLA Annual Meeting and the
discount pays for the
international membership!
MLA Presidential Address
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Ruth Holst, quoted one of Google’s
missions “Focus on the customer and
all else will follow”.
Likened MLs to Google, create tools to
solve problems
Organize information to make it easy
to use
Provide things so they look free and
people don’t know we provided them
MLs need to raise their profiles so they
can retain roles and develop new ones
Disaster Information Specialist new
area, MLA and NLM developing study
materials so MLs can train to become
DIS
MLA also sponsoring research into the
Value of Librarians, showing the
impact MLs have on patient care – not
finished yet.
Crowdsourcing Your Diagnosis
Sharon Leslie
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Peer to peer healthcare
discussion sites
Hundreds of people get together
to discuss their illnesses and
compare their progress
www.curetogether.com
www.patientslikeme.com
Patients register their conditions,
and drugs used, symptoms etc
and give feedback on them and
comments
You have to register to see them
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US Drug companies buying
patient feedback on their drugs
from Patients Like Me, and using
the two sites to recruit patients for
drug trials
From Expert Patients to Citizen
Scientists
Librarians role?
Tell clinicians/patients about the
P2P sites
Use them as part of our lit
searches?
Integrating embedded clinical informationists into the users
workflows: real-time interactive asking and answering clinical
questions. Amy Allison et al.
• Clinician requested librarian to
participate in morning report
• Library keen to move out of
building
• Librarian renamed as Clinical
Informationist, given a laptop
• Clinicians wanted a summary
of the answer to a clinical ? as
speedily as possible
• CI would produce a summary
and then cross check it with
the senior clinician to find best
evidence and circulate the
results
• CI gained in confidence
and developed more skills
at selecting best evidence
• Blog used to share the
evidence
http://emorymedicine.wor
dpress.com/
• Tags encourage browsing
• Chief Residents set
monthly quiz based on
blog with prizes
• To be a CI at Emory you
have to have hospital
library experience and
undertake training in EBM
Embedded Clinical Medical Librarianship:
Assisting patient care on the front line.
Julia Esparza
• NEJM, JAMA, medscape and
guidelines
• Reads computer and paper
patient notes
• Some ?s about this from staff
• Dress for comfort and culture –
white coat, avoid
aftershave/perfume
• Have a strong physical and
mental stomach – have a good
breakfast first
• Charged batteries for your IT
• Speed over thorough –
UpToDate or a textbook over
Pubmed
• Offer to answer ?s don’t wait to
be asked
• Don’t make suggestions but if
asked question do answer
• Speak up if you think
something missed –
discussion point?
• Ask Clinician to write down
question – handy for strong
accents and spelling confusion
• Stay before and after round to
speak to staff and may pick up
?s to embarrassed to ask in
front of senior staff
What's new at the NLM
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Free access to medical lit in times
of emergency. NLM organises
free bundles of info during
emergencies, txtbooks actually
most popular, publishers put in
books on radiation for the tsunami
in Japan.
NLM linking patient information to
Electronic Health Records – these
really taking off in the US.
They must be in place for 2016,
penalties if not used meaningfully
– so Medline Plus Connect good
way to demonstrate meaningful
use
MedlinePlus actually very good
detailed info for patients of use to
CLs
• PubMed Health
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.
gov/pubmedhealth/
• NLM want more
members of the public
to access SRs and look
at comparative
effectiveness – using
info and SRs from all
over the world including
Cochrane
• Still in development
How to get the best from MLA
– part 1
• This is part 1 because it was
my first MLA – so I don’t have
know all the “wrinkles” yet
• Get a mentor
• Attend the free events – good
info, food and networking
• Build in some jet lag / sight
seeing time
• Share a room
• If over 55 check for discounts
• Think bursaries
MLA, ICML and ICLC 2013
Thank You and Questions?