Access to texts

Access to information

Goals

Be able to access the NEJM full text from anywhere you might be

Be able to access any article on medline from anywhere you might be

Create alerting services to keep you current with medicine

While waiting on everyone to assemble, please:

1. Sign up for NEJM email alerts

Other good stuff at the NEJM such as procedure videos

We will later show you the EZ proxy bookmarklet to authenticate yourself when you receive these emails at home.

2. Sign up for FirstWatch email alerts

3. Sign up for Medical letter email alerts

We will later show you the EZ proxy bookmarklet to authenticate yourself when you receive these emails at home.

4. Ezproxy

We will do the following together

EZProxy bookmarklet

Quiz

To be announced...

Please keep one browser window open to http://utxr.org

1. Using your pin and EZ Proxy bookmarklet to get the full text of an article.

Question 1: How many cm should you retract the skin during z-tract (hints: read the PDF to save time or if you do not have speakers; search for tract)"?

Go to the Clinical Problem Solving article of September 3, 1009 "A Change of Heart". Use your bookmarklet to gain access.
1. Question 2: What was the final diagnosis?

2. How to get the full text of an article when you have the PMID.

For example, you click a reference at UpToDate. It takes you to an abstract and at the bottom of the abstract is PMID: 9613910. You can ether
- Google PMID: 9613910
- Enter into PubMed 9613910

3. How to get the full text of an article when you have part of the citation.

Go to the PubMed Citation matcher
Question 3: How many articles has Dr Hillis written in the NEJM (hint, his initials are LD)?
Question 4: According to his editorial, "Optimal Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes", how many variables must be present in the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) risk score for a patient to be considered high risk?