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ArticleJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA2007

Building better connections: the National Library of Medicine and public health.

Betsy L Humphreys

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Article in Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Betsy L HumphreysNational Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. Betsy.Humphreys@nih.hhs.gov

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe paper describes the expansion of the public health programs and services of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in the 1990s and provides the context in which NLM's public health outreach programs arose and exist today. BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Although NLM has always had collections and services relevant to public health, the US public health workforce made relatively little use of the library's information services and programs in the twentieth century. In the 1990s, intensified emphases on outreach to health professionals, building national information infrastructure, and promoting health data standards provided NLM with new opportunities to reach the public health community. A seminal conference cosponsored by NLM in 1995 produced an agenda for improving public health access to and use of advanced information technology and electronic information services. NLM actively pursued this agenda by developing new services and outreach programs and promoting public health informatics initiatives.

methodHistorical analysis is presented. RESULTS/OUTCOME: NLM took advantage of a propitious environment to increase visibility and understanding of public health information challenges and opportunities. The library helped create partnerships that produced new information services, outreach initiatives, informatics innovations, and health data policies that benefit the public health workforce and the diverse populations it serves.

Indexed as

Public Health PracticeCommunity-Institutional RelationsCooperative BehaviorData CollectionHealth EducationHealth PolicyHistory, 20th CenturyHumansLibraries, DigitalNational Library of Medicine (U.S.)United States

Identifiers

PMID17641764
PMCPMC1924934

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