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Posted by Alison Aldrich on March 23rd, 2010
Posted in: News from NLM, Training & Education
AcademyHealth is sponsoring two free instructional webcasts about information resources to support health services research. The presenters will be Dr. Lynn Whitener of Information Packaging, LLC, and Ione Auston of the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) at the National Library of Medicine.
On Thursday, April 1 at 10am Pacific Time, Whitener and Auston will present information about PubMed’s specialized search filters for health services research, including a newly developed filter for comparative effectiveness research (CER).
On Thursday, April 15 at 10am Pacific Time, Dr. Whitener will provide overviews and search strategies for the HSRProj database (Health Services Research Projects in Progress) and HSRR (Health Services and Sciences Research Resources) which is a database of datasets, software, and instruments/indices.
For more information and to register, visit AcademyHealth.