Health Sciences Library Research Articles

Data-Related Resources and Services in U.S.-Based Health Sciences Libraries: A Survey of AAHSL Member Websites

Data services, including consultation services for data management and data visualization, have been increasingly needed among health sciences libraries over the past decade, arising from mandates from funders and a need to effectively communicate information gleaned from a proliferating amount of data. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which U.S.-based health sciences libraries provide services and resources to meet data-related needs. To do so, the authors examined the webpages of American Association of Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) for published evidence of data-related services and resources. There were 157 library websites examined in total.

COVID-19 – Background and Health Sciences Library Response during the First Months of the Pandemic

COVID-19, a novel respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, was first recognized in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. Health science librarians continue to navigate the global health crisis while providing critical information services to their institutions. An informal survey was conducted to obtain some general information on the types of responses by health science librarians to this event. Among the findings is an opportunity for librarians to strengthen interdepartmental relationships and disaster response plans in preparation for future pandemics and disaster events.

Pandemic-Proofing Your Library: Disaster Response and Lessons Learned from COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected libraries across the globe, including academic health sciences libraries, in many ways. This manuscript describes the challenges, solutions, and practices employed by the Stony Brook University Health Sciences Library in order to maintain continuity of services to patrons including faculty, hospital staff, students, and clinicians while operating in one of the earliest epicenters of the pandemic. Some of the major changes the library underwent in response to the pandemic included implementing new online anatomy resources, contactless circulation, remote interlibrary loan services and modified operating practices.

When One Library Door Closes, Another Virtual One Opens: A Team Response to the Remote Library

The University of Central Florida Health Sciences Library is a digital library with 98% of resources being electronic and available online. Though almost all aspects of the library’s operations were impacted by the closing of the physical space during the coronavirus pandemic, being a digital library helped the library team transition quickly to remote reference, programming and instruction services.

NURSE ROLE AS NA EDUCATOR IN HIV PREVENTION IN THE ELDERLY: A NEW PERSPECTIVE FOR THE HEALTH CARE OF THE ELDERLY

Objective: Reflect the nurse role as an educator in HIV prevention in the elderly. Methods: This is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study. An online bibliographic survey was carried out in the databases of the Virtual Health Library (VHL), Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (Lilacs) and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO). The descriptors were used: “Assistance to the Elderly”; “Nursing”; “HIV” and “Public Health”. The inclusion criteria defined for the selection of articles were: articles published in Portuguese, articles in full that portrayed the theme and articles published in the referred databases in the last ten years. Results: When reading the eleven selected articles, it was possible to observe the high rate of elderly people with HIV. The profile of sexual behavior is commonly described only in people up to 59 years of age, abstaining from the population above 60 years, which favors forgetting this age group. From the perspective of HIV in the health of the elderly, the multidisciplinary team has an importance, especially the nurse, as its role is directed to the maintenance and restoration of health, leading them to self-care with a focus on health education practices. Conclusion: In the studies that were analyzed, the relevance of the nurse’s role as an educator was explicit, because unfortunately there is still a “taboo” when sexuality is explained in the elderly, and the nurse exercising his / her health education function may be adding knowledge of prevention and treatment for this population that is neglected by society.

An Unconventional Interviewing Process at an Academic Library

Confronted with two faculty vacancies to fill and a desire to minimize burnout among the remaining library staff throughout the search process, the Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah employed an interview method seldom utilized in academic libraries. The library's search committee arranged on-site group interviews that hosted multiple candidates simultaneously. Careful scheduling ensured that each candidate received sufficient individual attention and assessment, while also enabling the committee to evaluate the group dynamics and interpersonal skills of the applicants.

SOBREPESO, OBESIDADE E HIPERTENSÃO ARTERIAL SISTÊMICA EM IDOSOS: UMA REVISÃO DE LITERATURA

O envelhecimento é composto por alterações morfológicas, a exemplo do acúmulo excessivo de gordura, que torna o idoso mais propenso ao acometimento de comorbidades, como a Hipertensão Arterial Sistêmica (HAS), que, por sua vez, proporciona maior risco para desfechos desfavoráveis à saúde. Assim, o presente estudo objetiva averiguar a associação entre sobrepeso/obesidade e HAS em idosos. Trata-se de uma revisão de literatura integrativa, realizada nas bases de dados Latina- Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde e Scientific Electronic Library Online. Verificou-se 470 manuscritos científicos. Deste, quatro foram selecionados à revisão. As populações estudadas variaram de 477 a 963 idosos, com média de idade entre 65,0 ±9,0 e 73,0 ±8,9 anos. As prevalências de sobrepeso/obesidade oscilaram entre 34,2 e 77,4%, enquanto as de hipertensão arterial, de 62,8 a 76,8%. Observou-se, em um dos estudos, que os idosos obesos apresentaram 3,85 vezes mais chances de serem hipertensos, quando comparados aos eutróficos. Outro estudo mostrou que as idosas e os idosos hipertensos, possuíam, respectivamente, em média, um índice de massa corporal 3,22 e 2,27 kg/m2 maior que os não hipertensos. Ademais, observou-se entre os idosos obesos, uma prevalência de hipertensão 40% maior que a entre os com peso normal. Averiguou-se elevadas prevalências de hipertensão arterial e sobrepeso/obesidade, bem como associações entre estas condições nos idosos avaliados. Assim, torna-se imprescindível a adoção de ações de vigilância à saúde, como o monitoramento do estado nutricional, a fim de se triar os idosos com maior vulnerabilidade à HAS e suas possíveis complicações.

Development and Implementation of a Phased Framework for Collecting the COVID-19 Virus Material at a Medical University

As national leaders in infectious disease outbreaks, the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and its hospital partner Nebraska Medicine monitored and treated COVID-19 patients, starting with evacuees from Wuhan, China in February 2020. To document UNMC’s institutional response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and future outbreaks or pandemics, UNMC’s McGoogan Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives (SCA) Department faculty quickly established an archival collecting strategy to create a broad documentation package with multiple collecting phases. The initial phase included a contemporaneous response for digital collecting, timeline creation, and community collecting, followed by later collecting of personal papers, artifacts, and oral histories from key players who are also front-line workers. The combined collecting approach ensured early digital content preservation, captured public momentum, and provided the structure for longer-term collecting, after time for healing and relationship-building with prospective donors.

IMPORTÂNCIA DA ESCUTA QUALIFICADA NO CUIDADO CLÍNICO DE ENFERMAGEM AO PACIENTE ONCOLÓGICO

OBJETIVO: descrever, de acordo com a literatura, a importância da escuta qualificada realizada pelo enfermeiro no cuidado clínico com o paciente acometido pelo câncer. METODOLOGIA: revisão integrativa, com busca de estudos produzidos e devidamente publicados entre 2015 e 2020, nas bases de dados Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS), Literatura Latino-Americana em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS), Periódicos Capes e Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SCIELO), com os descritores controlados em português, em inglês e em espanhol. Também, foram acrescentados seis artigos a partir da busca manual no Google Achademics. A análise de conteúdo foi realizada a partir da identificação dos focos temáticos de onze artigos selecionados. RESULTADOS: identificaram-se três categorias: a busca por apoio e conforto no enfermeiro feita pela pessoa com câncer; capacitação e perfil profissional do enfermeiro que atua sobre as demandas clínicas oncológicas de seus pacientes; fatores capazes de dificultar e qualificar a escuta no cuidado clínico de enfermagem. CONCLUSÃO: a literatura evidenciou que a escuta é indispensável e deve ser adotada de forma qualificada na rotina de atuação do enfermeiro que atende pacientes oncológicos. Observou-se que a partir dessa adoção surge desse profissional um mediador redutor de incertezas e de angústias, deixando o cuidado clínico mais confortável e aceito.

Benefícios do exercício físico na gravidez: uma revisão integrativa

Durante a gestação, as mulheres passam por diversos processos em que ocorrem mudanças corporais e adaptações fisiológicas, biomecânicas, metabólicas e comportamentais. A gravidez dura, aproximadamente, 40 semanas, e promove nas mulheres alterações nos sistemas cardiorrespiratórios, musculoesqueléticos e no metabolismo em geral, essas alterações podem ocasionar nas mulheres hipertensão, diabetes gestacional, ganho de peso excessivo, dor lombar e pélvica e alteração no equilíbrio, na postura e na marcha, prejudicando sua qualidade de vida. Desta forma, este estudo objetivou identificar e relatar os benefícios da prática do exercício físico durante o período gestacional. Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa da literatura, com buscas nas bases de dados: Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS) e Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), utilizando-se os Descritores em Ciências da Saúde (DeCS) “gravidez” e “ exercício físico” e o operador booleano “AND” no cruzamento das palavras. Foram selecionados 13 artigos, publicados entre os anos de 2000 a 2020 nos idiomas inglês e português. A prática de exercícios físicos no período gestacional pode promover ganho de peso corporal e tecido adiposo reduzido, menor risco de parto prematuro, menos chances de complicações durante ou imediatamente após o parto, melhora da capacidade física geral e da capacidade física para o parto, melhora na capacidade cardiorrespiratória e menor risco ou inexistência de inchaços em membros inferiores. Conclui-se que o exercício físico é relevante, seguro e aconselhável, quer seja aeróbico ou mesmo de força, no período gestacional.

Attitudinal Attributes of Professionalism in Health Sciences Librarians

The establishment of professional credentials within health sciences librarianship has become an important initiative; however, the examination of librarian attitudes about professionalism has not been examined. This study aims to determine attitudes toward professionalism in health sciences librarians and examine relationships among degrees of professionalism utilizing a cross-sectional online survey of health sciences librarians registered on several library professional organization listservs. Collected data included socio-demographic information, work settings, and work responsibilities. The Hall Professionalism Inventory was used to measure participants’ professionalism. Several factors influence health sciences librarians’ attitudes toward professionalism, including academic degrees, workplace settings, and primary work responsibilities.

The international collaborations of Shane Godbolt: EAHIL, ICML and irish health science libraries.

This article summarises Shane Godbolt's international Collaborations. It includes her associations with the European Association of Health Information & Libraries (EAHIL), International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML) and the Irish Health Sciences Libraries (HSLG).

Assistência nutricional e dietoterápica em pacientes hospitalizados com COVID-19: uma revisão integrativa

Objetivo: Analisar as práticas e estratégias nutricionais adotadas na assistência nutricional e dietoterápica em pacientes hospitalizados com COVID-19. Métodos: Revisão integrativa de literatura científica através das bases de dados eletrônicas PubMed, Literatura Latino Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS) e Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SciELO). Foram considerados todos os artigos científicos em português, espanhol e inglês disponíveis na íntegra e gratuitos, assim como documentos de associações de relevância científica nacional e internacional, referentes ao ano de 2020, sendo incluídos 7 artigos nessa revisão. Resultados: Foi evidenciado a utilização de ferramentas de triagem nutricional e a implementação de cuidados para identificar e reduzir os efeitos deletérios da desnutrição em pacientes hospitalizados com COVID-19. A terapia nutricional composta por uma dieta personalizada adicionada de suplementação nutricional oral foi sugerida, assim como a iniciação de terapia nutricional enteral ou parenteral dependendo das condições clinicas do paciente. Os estudos também demonstraram a importância de um gerenciamento nutricional adequado e uma rápida intervenção nutricional no tratamento e prevenção de outras implicações adversas da doença. Considerações Finais: É unanime entre os pesquisadores e profissionais da relevância que a dietoterapia tem na recuperação da saúde dos pacientes hospitalizados.

O papel do enfermeiro na garantia da saúde do idoso no programa Hiperdia

Objetivo: Descrever o papel do enfermeiro na garantia da saúde do idoso no programa Hiperdia. Métodos: Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa, em que foram consultadas junto à Biblioteca Virtual de Saúde (BVS) acessando as bases de dados: Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS) e Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SciELO). Resultados: No total foram encontrados 13 artigos de atenderam aos critérios de inclusão deste trabalho. Desta forma, entende-se que os enfermeiros que atuam na Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF) necessitam programar e implementar atividades de investigação e acompanhamento dos idosos. De acordo com os dados coletados na pesquisa, pôde notar que a hipertensão arterial sistêmica e o diabetes mellitus é a primeira causa de hospitalizações no sistema público de saúde e são os principais fatores de risco para as doenças cardiovasculares, dos quais cerca de 60 a 80% dos casos podem ser tratados na rede pública básica Considerações finais: Percebe-se que o enfermeiro tem exercido um papel muito importante priorizando o desenvolvimento das ações básicas de saúde, no acompanhamento dos idosos hipertensos e diabéticos.

Medical and health informatics services during and after the COVID-19 pandemic should be virtual, tailored, responsive and interactive: a case study in Belgium.

This is part of a new series in this regular feature regarding trends in the provision of information by health science libraries. By sharing expertise and drawing together relevant trends the series intends to serve as a road map for both health science librarians and health informatics professionals. This article shows how a medical and biomedical research library changed practices, andreassesseduser needs for the COVID-19 emergency. Discusses changes to online education (and collaborative working) to provide user-friendly services, researcher support tailored to need and re-visioning library space. J.M.

Building the Capacity of African Health Sciences Librarians in the Development and Conduct of Systematic Reviews

While African health sciences librarians’ role as expert searchers is widely recognized, they have much more to contribute to supporting the development and conduct of systematic reviews. Research evidence has indicated that the librarians rarely participate in the development and conduct of systematic reviews because they are either not called upon to be part, or do not have the skills to participate. Moreover, few librarians who have participated are from outside Africa. Keeping this in mind, the Network of African Medical Librarians (NAML) conducted a pre-AHILA Conference training workshop to introduce participants, specifically the librarians, to the systematic review process. The regional conference for health librarians took place in Ibadan, Nigeria from 14-18 October 2019. This paper evaluates the impact of training of African health sciences librarians in the conduct of systematic reviews. Participants' evaluation feedback was collected using pre and post-training surveys. A mixed-method was employed to gather and analyze both quantitative and qualitative data. The results indicated that the main barriers to librarians’ participation in systematic reviews were lack of skills due to insufficient training and lack of time. This paper is expected to encourage the librarians to advocate for further skills development, in addition to their normal information searching roles. Their participation in the systematic review process would make them, not just relevant but dependable collaborators of systematic review teams, as they participate in improving systematic review reporting.

The role of concomitant ligament injury in the development of post-traumatic osteoarthritis after distal radius fractures: a protocol for a systematic review

IntroductionTreatment of distal radius fractures (DRFs) aims to restore anatomic position of the fracture fragments and congruity of the articular surface to optimise functional outcomes and prevent osteoarthritis in the...

Charles William Sargent, PhD, AHIP, FMLA, 1925–2020

Charles William Sargent, PhD, AHIP, FMLA, director emeritus of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Library of the Health Sciences and 1981–1982 president and member of the 1972–1975 Board of Directors of the Medical Library Association (MLA), died on January 8, 2020, in San Antonio, Texas. Sargent's career in librarianship included positions at research, special, and health sciences libraries, as well as an appointment as a library school faculty member. He was known for his mentoring, interest in clinical librarianship, and belief in the power of organizations.

UNLV Health Sciences Library’s Initial Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: How a Versatile Environment, Online Technologies, and Liaison Expertise Prepared Library Faculty in Supporting Its User Communities

In this case study, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Health Sciences Library describes how a flexible and technology-focused service model, liaison relationships, and individual expertise all contributed towards rapid mobilization of online instruction, virtual library services, and new resources to keep pace with the sudden needs of their user communities in the School of Medicine, School of Dental Medicine and local Las Vegas community prior to and during stay-at-home mandates related to the COVID-19 global pandemic of 2020.

Lisa K. Traditi, AHIP, Medical Library Association President, 2020-2021.

In this profile, Lisa K. Traditi, MLS, AHIP, Medical Library Association president, 2020–2021, is described as an individual with a bright personality, rich professional experiences, and a natural ability to lead. She is a respected mentor in the medical librarianship field, especially in the realm of evidence-based medicine instruction and education. Traditi has spent the past twenty-six years at the Strauss Health Sciences Library at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.