Coping with repetitive-motion injuries in a large academic library

Provision of biosciences information in the academic environment: experience of a large academic library in accessing bibliographic databases.

T h e John Rylands University Library of Manchester is the largest single-site university library in Great Britain and serves a user population, interested in virtually every possible academic subject, of approximately 32 000 people. These users include the University's undergraduate, postgraduate and part-time students, teaching and research staff, graduates and members of the Manchester Medic...

Academic Self-Efficacy, Coping, and Academic Performance in College

This study serves as a pilot study for a possible future study including the same variables. The purpose of the pilot study was to find a relationship in the college academic setting between academic self-efficacy, stress coping skills, and academic performance. Sixty-six undergraduate students, 17 male and 49 female, from a university in northwestern United States participated in the study. St...

Evolving academic library specialties

Occupational repetitive strain injuries in Hong Kong.

OBJECTIVE To review currently available evidence on the epidemiology and management of occupational repetitive strain injuries with particular reference to Hong Kong. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SELECTION Medline, PubMed and Cochrane Library searches of local and internationally published English journals from 1990 to 2007 regarding repetitive strain injuries. DATA EXTRACTION All articles involv...

Patterns and predictors of inpatient falls and fall-related injuries in a large academic hospital.

OBJECTIVES Most research on hospital falls has focused on predictors of falling, whereas less is known about predictors of serious fall-related injury. Our objectives were to characterize inpatients who fall and to determine predictors of serious fall-related injury. METHODS We performed a retrospective observational study of 1,082 patients who fell (1,235 falls) during January 2001 to June 2...