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Presentation Goals:

• What is STAT!Ref®?

• Where is STAT!Ref?

• How to STAT!Ref® it!

What is STAT!Ref®?

• STAT!Ref® is an electronic medical library that enables users to cross-search more than 60 core medical references such as Harrison’s, Williams Obstetrics and ACP’s evidence-based PIER

• It includes over 35 titles found on the Brandon-Hill list, the selection guide for health libraries/institutions

Where is STAT!Ref?

 STAT!Ref® is found in our libraries’ database!

STAT!Ref® IT!

How do I…

STAT!Ref® Search

1. Select Title(s)

2. Enter search statement

3. Set precision

4. Select search options (synonyms & suffixes)

5. Execute search

STAT!Ref® User Interface

• Title List

• Search Terms

• Precision Bar

STAT!Ref® Results

First Result (100%)

• Expandable TOC

• Links to figures/tables

• Search terms in red

First Result (figure)

Evidence-Based Result

PIER integration = Peer reviewed !

PIER (Physician’s Education and Information Resource)

Demo of a Search

Scenario 1:  A doctor finds out her patient is pregnant and asthmatic.  She needs treatment advice.

Select Titles

• Choose “select all” for a comprehensive search (default)

• Or choose “select none” and hold the control key down and click on specific titles.

Enter search statement

• Type in a search statement like, “asthma pregnancy”

Set precision

Choose a precision:

•AUTO

•OADJ

•ADJ

•NEAR/X

•AND

•OR

Set precision

The default automatically selects the best search precision, or choose from these:

• Pregnancy OADJ asthma | Ordered adjacency or “exact phrase” search

• Pregnancy ADJ asthma | Order adjacency search

• Pregnancy NEAR/5 asthma | Find pregnancy within 5 words of asthma

• Pregnancy AND asthma | Find pregnancy and asthma in the same document

• Pregnancy OR asthma | Find any document with pregnancy or asthma

Execute search

Click the search button OR press Enter/Return on the keyboard

Include Search options

Choose search option:

• “Include synonyms” will include other terms (e.g. attack and infarction)

• “Include suffixes” will include other endings (e.g. –ed, -ing, -s)

View Results

Results are listed in order of relevancy

View Results

First result in full text

Resizable TOC

Copy and Paste

Copy and paste directly into documents:

1. Highlight text

2. Copy (control-c)

3. And paste (control-v)

STAT!Ref® handles mistakes!

• Type in a search statement with a misspelling, “pregnncy and asthma”

STAT!Ref® handles mistakes!

• The Word List alerts you to a typo

• It can also help with difficult medical terms

Demo of a SearchScenario 2: An older man comes into the pharmacy with a pill he has been taking all week.  After looking closely at the pill he sees a monograph on the pill and is concerned because he thought he was taking aspirin. You need to identify the pill and you want to look up the “monograph,” or the lettering on the pill itself.

Identify drugs quickly

• Choose “select none” and hold the control key down and click on specific drug titles.

• Type in the monograph, “BL V2”

• Use ADJ precision

Monograph result

He’s been taking penicillin!

Demo of a Search

Scenario 3:  A first-year medical student is looking to expand his research on “heart attack” but does not remember the specific clinical term(s). 

Synonym & Suffix Search

•Type “heart attack”

• Hit “Include Synonyms”

Synonym Search

One of the results brings up another clinical term for “heart attack” and shows it in red

Demo of a Search

Scenario 4:  An insurance claims manager wants to verify an ICD-9 code entered by a nurse.  The code is 241 and she has no idea what this code refers to.

Identify ICD-9 Codes

• Choose “select none” and hold the control key down and click on the Ingenix ICD-9-CM title

• Type in “241”

• Press “Search”

Identify ICD-9 Codes

• Ingenix tells us that 241 is a code for a “nontoxic uninodular goiter”

Demo of a Search

Scenario 5:  A physician wants to look up the most current Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) information for diabetes to stay up to date on the disease findings

PIER: Consult the Experts

Physicians' Information and Education Resource (PIER) is a Web-based decision-support tool designed for rapid point-of-care delivery of current, evidence-based guidance for clinicians.

Developed by the American College of Physicians (ACP), PIER consists of modules focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of hundreds of the most common diseases, with additional disease topics added monthly.

Search PIER

• Choose “select none” and hold the control key down and click on “ACP’s PIER”

• Type in “diabetes”

• Hit “search”

Search PIER

PIER delivers EBM with new info listed first

Search PIER

PIER then shows the

following sections:1. Prevention

2. Screening

3. Diagnosis

4. Consult for Diagnosis

5. Non-drug Therapy

6. Patient Education

7. Consult for Management

8. Follow-up

Integrated PIER search

• Choose “select all” titles in your STAT!Ref® Library

• Type in “diabetes”

• Hit “search”

Integrated PIER search

• You will have your EBM results along with more traditional results from your other references in one search!

Integrated PIER search

STAT!Ref’s PIER is easy to navigate using the expandable TOC

PIER on PDA Expert information first hand

• Basic search functionality that is convenient, accurate and intuitive

•Trusted information from the ACP

• A collection of disease modules that can be searched and found alphabetically

• Palm™ Operating System

• Monthly content updates

• Download a free trial at: www.statref.com

Thank You!

• Visit us online: www.statref.com

• Call: 800-901-5494