Final-December Flashcards
4 fundamentals of Medical Informatics
Knowledge management, communication, management of clinical information, and decision support
some things used for knowledge management?
medical journals, medical reference books, consumer health info
somethings used for communication?
telemedicine, email patients, shared calendars, social media
Clinical info management?
electronic medical records, billing/coding systems, ordering systems
decision making?
point of care databases and drug interaction tools
Fitterling’s favorite database?
clinical key
what 3 things does medical informatics promote?
standardized patient care, quality control (measured outcomes), and evidence based practice
what are the ways medical informatics promotes standardized patient car?
reduces errors, clinical guidelines at physician’s fingertips
what are the ways medical informatics promotes quality control?
regulatory control/laws, privacy concerns
what fields does medical informatics cover?
information science, computer science and health care
what is medical informatics?
analysis, use and dissemination of medical data and info thru the app of computers to various aspects of health care and medicine
what does medical informatics include?
terminology, semantics, info mapping, info capture, indexing, retrieval, interpretation, and dissemination
dz info, differential dx, drug info, alternative med info, common calculations, lab values, evidence based recommendations, pt education… What are these?
type of information
Stedman’s, Medline Plus, Jablonski’s, and Merck Pronunciation are examples of?
Medical dictionaries
What resources can be used to look up dz etiology, treatment, diagnosis, and prognosis?
access Medicine, uptodate, first consult (clinical key), clinical key practice guidelines search, treatment guidelines (medical letter)
differential diagnoses can be looked up using?
first consult (clinical key), visual dx, clinician’s pocket reference, ferri’s clinical advisor, uptodate
what’s the alternative medicine database?
natural standard
resources for drug info?
clinical pharmacology, John’s Hopkins ABX Guide, The medical letter, uptodate Lexi Comp, Clinical Keys Drugs Search
What are the resources for Osteopathic medical info?
LWW Health Library Osteopathic Collection, OSTMED.DR*
Common calculations resources?
access medicine calculators, uptodate calculators
what resources can be used to research evidence based recommendations?
evidence based medicine reviews database (OVID), First consult (clinical key), UpToDate, Natural Standard
what are resources for patient education?
clinical key patient education search, access medicine, access pediatrics, access surgery
In PudMed searching, searching a keyword search matches terms to?
MeSH terms
You can search Journal Title and combine it with what other things?
authors name and/or subject terms
truncations in pubmed searches are what?
where you replace 0-many characters at the end of the word (ex.: bacter*= bacteria, bacterium, bacteriophage, etc.)
what is something important to note about truncation?
turns off automatic term mapping
how are combining words for search terms processed?
in left to right order
A good way to find articles on same/similar subjects?
click related citations
filters do what?
limit search result
something important to note about filters?
remain in effect until unchecked; filters other than language or date will exclude records in process
abbreviations: affiliation author journal title abbreviation MeSH terms subset language
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what can you put by MeSH searches to mark them as major? minor?
majr; mh
what does searching using MeSH headings exclude?
records in process (not indexed with MeSH yet)
how do you turn off automatic explosion?
[mh:noexp]
