Designing research databases: Its all about terminology standards

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Evaluation of an evidence-based scholarly communication conference focused on support of translational investigators using a prospective longitudinal cohort design

To determine if Evidence-Based Scholarly Communication Conference (EBSCC) that was held March 11-12, 2010 in Albuquerque, NM would have both immediate and long-term effects on participants attitudes, skills training, and advocacy actions in support of open access publication by translational investigators.\u2

The Future Roles of Librarians and the Interdisciplinary Imperative

Title: The future roles of librarians and the interdisciplinary imperative Abstract: Historically librarians have catalogued and organized a fairly small group of item types that were well standardized and relatively unchanging (e.g., books, journals, maps etc.) With the coming of the information age, not only is the amount of information that needs organizing increasing exponentially, but perhaps more significantly, the number of the kinds of items that need organizing are also increasing astronomically as well (e.g., genes, proteins, medications, electronic medical records, populations, etc.) Before the information age, the types of items were also tangible and easily understood. Now, they are more abstract, more complex, and more esoteric — often only well understood within the discipline or expertise that created them in the first place. Because of the exponentially increasing number of item types that need organizing, it will become imperative for librarians to collaborate with the disciplines creating the new item types they are helping to organize. Librarians will continue organize for sure, but not in the manner of just books and journals. Rather, the kinds of items they help organize will more numerous, more abstract, and oftenless tangible than perhaps anyone has imagined, \u2010\u2010 and perhaps much more exciting to work with.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hslic-posters-presentations/1026/thumbnail.jp

MS-Squared Survey Instrument V 2.0

This survey tool, with questions drawn from multiple sources, is part of the Minimizing Stress, Maximizing Success of Clinicians’ Use of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Study (MS‐Squared). MS-Squared was funded by a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The survey is free to use; however, we respectfully ask you to cite the MS‐Squared study when using the survey (see below option). We would also like to know your thoughts about the tool; please contact us with your comments, edits, and survey findings. This survey tool has not yet been fully validated. If you would like to be part of the validation process, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you

The Effects of the Introduction of Tuition on College Enrollment in Germany: Results from a Natural Experiment With Special Reference to Students from Low Parental Education Backgrounds.

Many wealthy countries outside of the US have traditionally provided public higher education free of charge to students. However, due to growing enrollments, fiscal pressures and political objections to increased public spending, an international trend to introduce tuition has emerged. Whereas tuition is a controversial policy issue in many wealthy counties outside of the US, relatively little is known about how the introduction of moderate tuition affects college enrollment in these countries. Methodological challenges, such as a lack of valid comparison groups, often limit the validity of the existing estimates. It is also unclear whether the effects found in the US apply to other institutional contexts and how the introduction of tuition affects the enrollment decisions of students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. This dissertation is able to address these methodological challenges by using a natural experiment design. In 2006, six German states introduced tuition in the moderate amount of €1,000 per year, while the other ten states did not. Students in the states without tuition can therefore be used as a comparison group. Using a differences- in-difference analysis, I find no evidence that the introduction of moderate tuition affects college enrollment in Germany in general. While high school graduates from college-educated family backgrounds are not affected by moderate tuition, their peers whose parents do not have a college degree are sensitive to tuition, even when the tuition level is minimal compared to international levels. After tuition was introduced, the enrollment probability of high school graduates from low parental education backgrounds dropped by six percentage points (from a baseline of 42%) relative to students from high parental education backgrounds in tuition-states and relative to the change in the enrollment gap by parental education in non-tuition-states. Implications for empirical research, theoretical perspectives on college enrollment, and tuition policy are discussed.PHDHigher EducationUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/111597/1/ankroth_1.pd

Value of Open Access Institutional Repositories to the Health Care Community

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UNM Medicine Grand Rounds Presentation: Medical Informatics —- What is the Evidence?

Electronic physician order entry and medical records systems are being installed in health care settings throughout the country. Many physicians and other providers may not be aware of the science behind the potential benefits of using these new technologies. This talk will provide a basic defintion of the field of medical informatics and review the basic science behind electronic physician order entry and what are some realistic potentials for its future use.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hslic-posters-presentations/1032/thumbnail.jp

Welcome!

These are the slides used for the welcome session of the Evidence Based Scholarly Communication Conference held in Albuquerque, NM, March 10-11th, 2010