NLM Announces New Online Course
April 8, 2019. The National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) of NLM is pleased to announce the newly revised tutorial, Finding and Using Health Statistics. Designed to introduce librarians and students to the basic terminology and principles of health statistics, the course also provides a useful outline of the various U.S. sources for important statistical data.
Source: NLM General Announcements - April 8, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

NLM Technical Bulletin, Mar-Apr 2019, NICHSR Tutorial: Finding and Using Health Statistics
The National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) is pleased to announce the release of a newly revised Health Statistics tutorial (see Figure 1). Written by staff at AcademyHealth, this tutorial is aimed at students, librarians, and other professionals interested in an introduction to the principles behind health statistics.
Source: NLM Technical Bulletin - April 3, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

A tutorial on individual participant data meta-analysis using Bayesian multilevel modeling to estimate alcohol intervention effects across heterogeneous studies - Huh D, Mun EY, Walters ST, Zhou Z, Atkins DC.
This paper provides a tutorial companion for the methodological approach implemented in Huh et al. (2015) that overcame two major challenges for individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis. Specifically, we show how to validly combine data from heterog...
Source: SafetyLit - February 25, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

A tutorial on Bayes factor design analysis using an informed prior - Stefan AM, Gronau QF, Sch önbrodt FD, Wagenmakers EJ.
Well-designed experiments are likely to yield compelling evidence with efficient sample sizes. Bayes Factor Design Analysis (BFDA) is a recently developed methodology that allows researchers to balance the informativeness and efficiency of their experiment...
Source: SafetyLit - February 7, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Objective measures of rollator user stability and device loading during different walking scenarios - Costamagna E, Thies SB, Kenney LPJ, Howard D, Lindemann U, Klenk J, Baker R.
Walking aids are widely used by older adults, however, alarmingly, their use has been linked to increased falls-risk, yet clinicians have no objective way of assessing user stability. This work aims to demonstrate the application of a novel methodology to ...
Source: SafetyLit - February 4, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Meet the Post-Op Bra That & #039;s Long Overdue
Efrat Roman was diagnosed with breast cancer a little more than a decade ago and underwent a total of five different surgeries due to complications. As if going through multiple breast operations weren't challenging enough, Roman was surprised to find out that the post-op breast dressing options were severely lacking. "I realized there wasn't anything designated for the dressing of breasts post-op," Roman told MD+DI. "There are reusable bras that are post-op bras, but the fact that they are reusable is not enough because many breast cancer patients will suffer from some kind of asymmetry and with the reusable bras there is...
Source: MDDI - November 30, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Amanda Pedersen Tags: Business Source Type: news

New SPELL server: Fresh look and faster
Please note that we have moved the WormBase SPELL tool to a new server on the Amazon Cloud: https://spell.wormbase.org.  This should not affect any of our users, as the ‘Tools’ link on the main WormBase menu bar will take you to this new URL. SPELL (Serial Pattern of Expression Levels Locator) is a query-driven search engine for microarray, RNAseq and Proteomics data. Given a small set of query genes, SPELL identifies which datasets are most informative for these genes, then within those datasets, additional genes are identified with expression profiles most similar to the query set. WormBase SPELL has colle...
Source: WormBase - November 16, 2018 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication new features news tutorials SPELL tools Source Type: news

FDG-PET/CT fails for peripheral T-cell lymphoma outcomes
Don't expect much help from FDG-PET/CT results in predicting progression-free...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: FDG-PET/CT helps stage men with breast cancer, too PET/CT key to NIH's tuberculosis research plan PET/CT makes case for directing cervical cancer treatment Prescan tutorial eases patient concerns about PET/CT Can deep learning monitor lesions on F-18 NaF PET/CT?
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - October 5, 2018 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

Prescan tutorial eases patient concerns about PET/CT
Giving patients knowledge of what to expect from an upcoming FDG-PET/CT scan...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: How patient consumerism affects today's radiology practice Patients want imaging price information MRI training improves performance, patient satisfaction Survey: Radiologists rated awesome and awful Improving the patient experience benefits everyone
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - August 13, 2018 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

" Health in Appalachia " Website Tutorial Webinar
July 27, 2018 10:00am ET.
Source: HSR Information Central - July 24, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

NLM Technical Bulletin, May-Jun 2018, MeSH on Demand: New Tutorial Available
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new video tutorial, MeSH on Demand: Finding MeSH Terms in Your Text.
Source: NLM General Announcements - June 22, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

Executive Committee Minutes, March 13, 2018
Participants: Peter Elias, John Grohol, Janice McCallum, Burt Rosen,Danny Sands, Joe Ternullo, Sue Woods Minutes from February Executive Board Meeting approved.   Announcements / HIMSS Comments SPM had a good number of members attending the HIMSS18 conference. We awarded patient travel funds to about 8 people. Danny suggested that we offer more guidance to patient award recipients next time to prepare them for the massive HIMSS annual conference. Janice pointed to a post by HISTalk that offered suggestions on how to prepare patient attendees for HIMSS. [Note that another SPM member posted HIStalk post on Connect, which ge...
Source: Society for Participatory Medicine - May 20, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: janicemc Tags: Executive Minutes News Exec Committee Executive Committee Minutes Meeting Minutes Source Type: news

Board Meeting Minutes, March 27, 2018
Participants:  Geri Baumblatt, Dave DeBronkart, Judy Danielson, Peter Elias, Nancy Finn, John Grohol, Matthew Holt, Sarah Krüg, Janice McCallum, Jan Oldenburg, Parika (Pinky) Petaipimol, Burt Rosen, Danny Sands, Linda Stotsky, Joe Ternullo, Sue Woods Approve minutes from last full board meeting—Janice McCallum Minutes from February 27, 2018 approved. Treasurer’s Report (financial and membership numbers)–John Grohol Danny asked about a decline in funds, which John explained was due to outlay for HIMSS travel funds that have outstanding invoices from sponsors. Related to travel funds, HIMSS Health 2.0 in Clevelan...
Source: Society for Participatory Medicine - May 20, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: janicemc Tags: Board Minutes Board Meeting Meeting Minutes Source Type: news

FDA is asking for more information on application forms: Here ’s why that’s good for innovation and improving health
Christopher Leptak, M.D., Ph.D., is Director, Office of New Drug’s Regulatory Science Program in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. By: Dr. Christopher Leptak To be most effective, electronic health records (EHRs) use a systematized and standardized nomenclature for the hundreds of thousands of clinical terms that characterize patient care. This helps to ensure consistency from EHR to EHR and allows these records to be usable from healthcare entity to health care entity, a concept known as interoperability. This nomenclature, used by both industry and the federal government, is called SNOMED CT. Recogni...
Source: Mass Device - May 17, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Danielle Kirsh Tags: Blog FDA Voice Source Type: news

SPM in Real Life: Spring ’ 18
NEW MEMBERS: Spring ’18 Brief bios/plugs for new members (extracted from the Introduce Yourself Connect Community) Katherine Infantes-Cordova, a bilingual patient liaison passionate about improving the patient experience, is eager to take part in eliminating health inequities and empowering patients to be proactive in their health. Leah Jones has a background in consumer public relations and social media. Her company, Natiiv Facilitation, offers independent focus group moderation, event facilitation, and patient engagement projects. She advocates about fibroids and the challenges people struggling with their weight f...
Source: Society for Participatory Medicine - April 27, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Danny van Leeuwen Tags: Newsletter Source Type: news

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