Enhancing CD-ROM Searches

Clinical department use of three CD-ROM databases: a case study.

After using MEDLINE on CD-ROM in libraries, computer-literate health professionals are beginning to purchase CD-ROM MEDLINE subscriptions for their office or home computers. In support of this trend, medical journals such as MD Computing and the Journal of the American Medical Association carry articles describing the set-up and uses of CD-ROM MEDLINE equipment [1-2]. Patterns of use also have ...

Creating a CD-ROM program for cancer-related patient education.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the process of developing a cancer-related patient and family education CD-ROM program and initial evaluation results. DATA SOURCES Published research, theory, practice, and personal experience. DATA SYNTHESIS CD-ROM programs can be far more comprehensive than the booklets and videotapes used more commonly in patient education. Developing CD-ROM programs requi...

Instructing occupational therapy students in information retrieval.

The effectiveness of a brief program designed to teach occupational therapy students enrolled in a graduate research methods class to conduct searches of four electronic databases was investigated. Students in the experimental class read an instructional booklet and received approximately 1 hour of supervised practice time using compact disk--read-only memory (CD-ROM) equipment. Questionnaire d...

ورود دیسکهای نوری CD-ROM در عصر انفجار اطلاعات

Agreement between Medline searches using the Medline-CD-Rom and Internet Pubmed, BioMedNet, Medscape and Gateway search-engines.

OBJECTIVE To compare the information obtained from the Medline database using Internet commercial search engines with that obtained from a compact disc (Medline-CD). METHODS An agreement study was carried out based on 101 clinical scenarios provided by specialists in internal medicine, pharmacy, gynaecology-obstetrics, surgery and paediatrics. 175 search strategies were employed using the con...