HSL-News Information-Archive

August 2001

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HSL-News 8-1-2001
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1. Clinical Evidence - available electronically on HealthLinks
2. HSL New Serial Subscriptions
3. Social Services Abstracts [SSA] - database now available

CLINICAL EVIDENCE AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY ON HEALTHLINKS
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Clinical Evidence, a product of BMJ Publishing, is now available via our HealthLinks Databases, and, on the Care Provider Toolkit. Clinical Evidence summarizes randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews for relevance with an emphasis on the types of questions arising in primary care. Sometimes called the friendly front end of the Cochrane Library, Clinical Evidence takes Cochrane, and other, high quality information and pulls it together in one place in a concise format. Updated every six months, Clinical Evidence covers about 300-400 questions or conditions. Both benefits and harms are listed with the authors pointing out gaps in knowledge by indicating where evidence is lacking. Only the evidence is provided with no expert recommendation based on the assumption that the decisions to apply evidence to patient care rests with the clinician.

NEW SERIAL SUBSCRIPTIONS AT THE HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY
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The following titles have been recently evaluated and selected. They will begin arriving in the Library over the next few months: Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy Clinical Biomechanics Harvard Review of Psychiatry Health Promotion Practice International Journal of Occupational & Environmental Health Journal of Herbal Pharmacotherapy As new journal titles are added to the collection they will be announced in HSL-News.

SOCIAL SERVICES ABSTRACTS - NEW DATABASE ADDED
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Social Services Abstracts, from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, social welfare, social policy. Some of the major areas covered include, gerontology, crisis intervention, and, evaluation research. You can locate SSA on the HealthLinks page under Databases, and also under the Health Databases by Topic - Social Sciences.

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HealthLinks August Front Page
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The featured topic this month is; Stem Cell Research.
You can reach our front page at: /.

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