Faculty: Margo Edmunds, Ph.D., AcademyHealth (moderator); David Fleming, M.D., M.P.H., PATH; Paul Kuehnert, DNP, RN, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; David Ross, ScD, Public Health Informatics Institute; and Arpana Verma, Ph.D., MBChB, M.P.H., FFPH, Manchester Urban Collaboration on Health
This two-part free seminar series, taught by Dr. Lynn Whitener of Information Packaging, LLC, is designed for library and information professionals with an interest in learning more about research resources for topics in health services, delivery, and outcomes. The first seminar, taught by Dr. Whitener and Ione Auston of NICHSR at the National Library of Medicine, provides a robust overview of PubMed search filters designed especially to identify health services research (HSR), as well as a new resource to identify comparative effectiveness research. The second seminar addresses specialized resources for HSR, including HSRProj, a database of ongoing research in the field of HSR, and HSRR, a database of datasets, measures, and indices.
Faculty: Glen Mays, Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers; David Kindig, Blogger for Improving Population Health; Sarah Kliff of The Washington Post (moderator)
This three-part Web conference series provided an overview of grey literature and approaches to searching the grey literature for health services research; a consumer's guide to conducting advanced searches of grey literature; and a producer's perspective on the "searchability" of grey literature and how to effectively produce and distribute research.