{"id":992,"date":"2010-01-28T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=992"},"modified":"2010-02-02T13:20:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T18:20:42","slug":"jm-2010-ce-understanding-healthcare-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=992","title":{"rendered":"JM2010 CE: Understanding Healthcare Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Kathleen Carlson, MLS, AHIP Health Sciences Librarian; Arizona State University at the Downtown Phoenix Campus, Information Commons Library<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This four hour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/jtmtg2010\/ce.htm\">continuing education class by Ann McKibbon, &#8220;Understanding Healthcare Literature: Advanced Critical Appraisal,&#8221;<\/a> took attendees through the paces\u00a0 of examining specific articles in the medical literature. She made attendees fearless to participate and she created an open atmosphere for participation learning. She gave us the opportunity to be enthusiastic learners. There were a lot of good suggestions for studying using today\u2019s class as a jumping off point.\u00a0\u00a0 She reviewed the three step process when reading and critically appraising an article. There are different categories of clinical literature original studies and syntheses including health technology assessment reports. There are similarities across these two categories and McGibbon went through each of them.\u00a0 She introduced us to the Equator Network the resource centre for good reporting of health research studies.\u00a0 This allows those who read and publish clinical research literature to conform to a standard. If you are interested in understanding how a research article is laid out, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equator-network.org\/\">Equator Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For another perspective on this class, visit this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=984\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Posted 1\/28\/10<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kathleen Carlson, MLS, AHIP Health Sciences Librarian; Arizona State University at the Downtown Phoenix Campus, Information Commons Library This four hour continuing education class by Ann McKibbon, &#8220;Understanding Healthcare Literature: Advanced Critical Appraisal,&#8221; took attendees through the paces\u00a0 of examining specific articles in the medical literature. She made attendees fearless to participate and she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,30,19],"tags":[147,39,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}