Final-December

Question 1

4 fundamentals of Medical Informatics

Answer 1

Knowledge management, communication, management of clinical information, and decision support

Question 2

some things used for knowledge management?

Answer 2

medical journals, medical reference books, consumer health info

Question 3

somethings used for communication?

Answer 3

telemedicine, email patients, shared calendars, social media

Question 4

Clinical info management?

Answer 4

electronic medical records, billing/coding systems, ordering systems

Question 5

decision making?

Answer 5

point of care databases and drug interaction tools

Question 6

Fitterling’s favorite database?

Answer 6

clinical key

Question 7

what 3 things does medical informatics promote?

Answer 7

standardized patient care, quality control (measured outcomes), and evidence based practice

Question 8

what are the ways medical informatics promotes standardized patient car?

Answer 8

reduces errors, clinical guidelines at physician’s fingertips

Question 9

what are the ways medical informatics promotes quality control?

Answer 9

regulatory control/laws, privacy concerns

Question 10

what fields does medical informatics cover?

Answer 10

information science, computer science and health care

Question 11

what is medical informatics?

Answer 11

analysis, use and dissemination of medical data and info thru the app of computers to various aspects of health care and medicine

Question 12

what does medical informatics include?

Answer 12

terminology, semantics, info mapping, info capture, indexing, retrieval, interpretation, and dissemination

Question 13

dz info, differential dx, drug info, alternative med info, common calculations, lab values, evidence based recommendations, pt education… What are these?

Answer 13

type of information

Question 14

Stedman’s, Medline Plus, Jablonski’s, and Merck Pronunciation are examples of?

Answer 14

Medical dictionaries

Question 15

What resources can be used to look up dz etiology, treatment, diagnosis, and prognosis?

Answer 15

access Medicine, uptodate, first consult (clinical key), clinical key practice guidelines search, treatment guidelines (medical letter)

Question 16

differential diagnoses can be looked up using?

Answer 16

first consult (clinical key), visual dx, clinician’s pocket reference, ferri’s clinical advisor, uptodate

Question 17

what’s the alternative medicine database?

Answer 17

natural standard

Question 18

resources for drug info?

Answer 18

clinical pharmacology, John’s Hopkins ABX Guide, The medical letter, uptodate Lexi Comp, Clinical Keys Drugs Search

Question 19

What are the resources for Osteopathic medical info?

Answer 19

LWW Health Library Osteopathic Collection, OSTMED.DR*

Question 20

Common calculations resources?

Answer 20

access medicine calculators, uptodate calculators

Question 21

what resources can be used to research evidence based recommendations?

Answer 21

evidence based medicine reviews database (OVID), First consult (clinical key), UpToDate, Natural Standard

Question 22

what are resources for patient education?

Answer 22

clinical key patient education search, access medicine, access pediatrics, access surgery

Question 23

In PudMed searching, searching a keyword search matches terms to?

Answer 23

MeSH terms

Question 24

You can search Journal Title and combine it with what other things?

Answer 24

authors name and/or subject terms

Question 25

truncations in pubmed searches are what?

Answer 25

where you replace 0-many characters at the end of the word (ex.: bacter*= bacteria, bacterium, bacteriophage, etc.)

Question 26

what is something important to note about truncation?

Answer 26

turns off automatic term mapping

Question 27

how are combining words for search terms processed?

Answer 27

in left to right order

Question 28

A good way to find articles on same/similar subjects?

Answer 28

click related citations

Question 29

filters do what?

Answer 29

limit search result

Question 30

something important to note about filters?

Answer 30

remain in effect until unchecked; filters other than language or date will exclude records in process

Question 31

``` abbreviations: affiliation author journal title abbreviation MeSH terms subset language ```

Answer 31

``` ad au ta mh sb la ```

Question 32

what can you put by MeSH searches to mark them as major? minor?

Answer 32

majr; mh

Question 33

what does searching using MeSH headings exclude?

Answer 33

records in process (not indexed with MeSH yet)

Question 34

how do you turn off automatic explosion?

Answer 34

[mh:noexp]