Library Bulletin April 2018

Healthcare Library Current Awareness Bulletin - Infection Prevention and Control April and May 2015

Surveillance of healthcare-associated infections is central to healthcare epidemiology and infection control programmes and a critical factor in the prevention of these infections. By definition, the term 'infection prevention' implies that healthcare-associated infections may be preventable. The purpose of surveillance is to provide quality data that can be used in an effective monitoring and ...

Cover vol. 15, no. 2, April 2018

Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, March/April 2018.

In November, 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated recommendations for breast cancer screening. The new guidelines, based on updated review of the evidence, recommend against routine screening mammography for women aged 40-49 in the general population, call for biennial screening mammography in women aged 50-74, and state that the evidence is insufficient to recommend c...

Persian-translation Vol.15, No.2 April 2018

Barbara Epstein, AHIP, FMLA, Medical Library Association President, 2017–2018

Meeting Barbara Epstein, AHIP, FMLA, for the first time at the 2010 Medical Library Association (MLA) annual meeting in Washington, DC, was very memorable. That was the meeting that cardboard cutouts of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greeted everyone at the top of the Hilton Washington escalator. It was also the meeting that Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr. made an appearance at...