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- from PART 2 - EBLIP IN ACTION
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- By Jonathan D. Eldredge, Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico., Joanne Gard Marshall, MLS MHSc PhD spent 16 years as a medical librarian before becoming a faculty member at the University of Toronto in 1987., Alison Brettle, Reader in Evidence Based Practice and Director of Post Graduate Research in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work Research at the University of Salford, UK., Heather N. Holmes, MLIS AHIP is the Associate Director of Libraries with a faculty appointment of Associate Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina, Lotta Haglund, MLIS is Head of Library and Archive at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden since 2012, Rick Wallace, Professor and Associate Director at the Quillen College of Medicine Library at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee.
- Edited by Allison Brettle, Denise Koufogiannakis
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- Being Evidence Based in Library and Information Practice
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- Facet
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- 08 June 2018
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- 31 August 2016, pp 121-132
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Summary
Introduction
The historical evidence suggests that the health professions might never have developed EBP had it not been for the development of sophisticated research tools such as PubMed/MEDLINE and the Cochrane Library for identifying authoritative evidence (Eldredge, 2008a). By working with health professionals in using these tools, health librarians were pivotal figures in the development of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and the broader EBP movement. From supporting health professionals in EBP, health librarians have gone on to develop and use evidence within their professional practices – EBLIP. This chapter will provide a context for health librarian's work, describe EBLIP within the health library field and the state of the evidence base, and discuss the types of evidence used by health librarians. Two case studies show how EBLIP has been translated into practice and demonstrate how health librarians continue to push the boundaries of EBLIP. Finally, the future directions for research and EBLIP practice will be considered within a health library context.
The health library context
Health librarians often collaborate with other health professionals in a fast-paced environment that demands high levels of accountability for the accuracy of their work. Any mistakes can result in missed diagnoses, inappropriate treatments, incorrectly trained health professionals (Maggio et al., 2015) or misguided research projects. Many health librarians take years to establish credibility for their expert skills among other health professionals (Hannigan and Eldredge, 2014). With increasing frequency, health librarians work outside of physical libraries in roles as embedded colleagues, liaisons, clinical librarians, informaticists and informaticians; therefore, throughout this chapter the term health librarian will be used to describe all of these roles.
The context in which health librarians work is continuing to change (Funk, 2013). At one time, the majority of health librarians worked in hospital libraries. Now, in the USA many librarians work in centralized academic health-science centre libraries that co-ordinate access to electronic databases for their users, including health professionals and staff in affiliated hospitals. The National Library of Medicine in the USA coordinates outreach and other centralized functions. In the UK, health librarians work in hospitals, academic institutions and, increasingly, throughout other NHS organizations. Collections for NHS staff are centralized and health libraries are monitored and supported by a national Library and Knowledge Service.
Microstructure and Interfacial Reactions in RuO2/Ta2N Precision Thin Film Resistors
- Erming Ma, Rick L. Wallace, Wayne A. Anderson
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- MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive / Volume 355 / 1994
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- 21 February 2011, 471
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- 1994
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Ruthenium oxide (RuO2) / tantalum nitride (Ta2N) precision thin film resistors were fabricated by dc magnetron reactive sputtering. Proper thermal treatment was utilized to tune the temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) to near zero. The TCR of these samples could be easily tuned to ±10 ppm/°C. Accelerated life time (ALT) tests at 150 °C for up to 1000 hours demonstrated very good stability both in p□(Δp/p≤0.5%)and TCR (ΔTCR ≤ ±2 ppm/°C). Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) showed that the RuO2 cap layer became deficient in oxygen after annealing, with Ru-Ta-O and Ta2O5 sublayers as the interfacial reaction products. The upper layer of Ta2N was oxidized. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) revealed that the sample underwent a (re)crystallization. The as-deposited Ta2N was a uniform amorphous phase, and the as-deposited RuO2 possessed fine microcrystals embedded in an amorphous matrix. Crystallization and oxidation occurred in the Ta2N film during annealing, with recrystallization and oxygen redistribution in the RuO2 film.