#MedLibs

Thread: 1/At some point (if this pandemic ever ends), #medlibs will need to have a serious discussion and critical look at how MeSH and other metadata did and (mostly) did
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"In wrenching interviews, nurses, doctors, technicians — and even administrative staff and dental hygienists who haven’t directly treated covid-19 patients — explained the impulse to quit and the emotional wreckage
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When we seek medical care/advice we speak to the expert, ie. the physician, nurse practitioner, etc.Why is it that when the expert is in need of information retrieval advice, #medlibs
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Today's find from medRxiv: "SARS-CoV-2 viral load peaks prior to symptom onset: a systematic review and individual-pooled analysis of coronavirus viral load from 66 studies"(A #medlibs thread touching on #systematicreview
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So remember how @nlm_news is putting preprints into PubMed now? ICYMI: https://nlmdirector.nlm.nih.gov/2020/06/09/the-nih-preprint-pilot-a-new-experiment-for-a-new-era/Well... are they following up and linking preprints to published article
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I don't know about other #medlibs or PubMed users, but I'm still reeling, still grieving, from new PubMed, especially the loss of myNCBI recent activity. It's been what? 4 months
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Right. So this is bothering me enough that I'm going to get into it. ***Content warning for entire thread*** I'm going to be talking about terminology and concepts surrounding sexual
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Check out our new paper on the need for better understanding of academic searching: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jrsm.1457#InformationRetrieval #MedLibs #EvidenceSynthesisA thread with our key points... (1/20) We agree with o
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