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{"title":"Graphic medicine in academic health science library collections.","authors":"Janet Chan, Melinda H Berg, Krystal Bullers, Tsu Yin Lue","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.1962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.1962","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Academic health science library catalogs were analyzed to determine the presence and frequency of graphic medicine titles in print format in the collections. The secondary objectives were to gauge if students could access graphic medicine titles, through other libraries within the same system or as eBooks, and to examine if libraries highlighted graphic medicine collections and their uses on their websites.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A convenience sample of health science libraries was created from the Association of Academic Health Science Libraries member list. A title list was developed from collection resources and award lists for graphic medicine and graphic novels. Data was collected from public-facing library catalogs.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Fifty-six percent of the libraries analyzed had at least one title from the list in their collections available as print. An additional thirty percent had at least one title available as an eBook, leaving only fourteen percent with no graphic medicine titles.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study provides a starting point in describing the prevalence and breadth of graphic medicine collections in academic health science libraries. Although their presence may be small, our findings suggest that graphic medicine is being collected by academic health science libraries. Academic librarians can support the growing interest in the comic art format by incorporating graphic medicine into their collections and educating their patrons on this important genre.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 3","pages":"233-240"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12369966/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Physicians' information-seeking, appraising, and clinical decision-making practices for drug prescriptions: an exploratory study.","authors":"Akhi Nath, Julien Meyer, Mathieu Templier","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.2082","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The purpose of this study is to understand the process of physicians' evidence-based clinical decision-making for new drug prescriptions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Eleven semi-structured interviews were conducted, and thematic coding was used for data analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Several findings emerged. First, point-of-care information seeking focuses more on accessible and easy-to-use sources, such as medical websites, while out-of-practice searches encompass broader sources such as printed sources and extended networks. Medical websites are becoming preferred sources of information. Second, critical appraisal of information is performed passively by using pre-appraised information sources and referring to professional networks. Third, professional networks (i.e., specialists and senior colleagues) remain essential throughout the process and are pivotal for the decision to change prescription practices.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Medical information systems that facilitate immediate access to summarized reliable evidence and feature real-time connectivity to the communities of practice can be an effective strategy for improving physicians' evidence-based practice for new drug prescriptions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 3","pages":"224-232"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12369961/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Operational developments at the <i>Journal of the Medical Library Association</i>: improved production timelines, new policy introduction, and senior editorial team updates.","authors":"Jill T Boruff, Michelle Kraft","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.2289","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In our editorial in the January/April 2023 issue of the <i>Journal of the Medical Library Association</i> (<i>JMLA</i>), we spoke of the challenges we faced when we took on the co-lead editor roles. At the end of that editorial, we stated our intention to get the publishing schedule back on track and to finally tackle other projects. And while it took us some time to report it, we are pleased to share that, in the publication year of 2024, <i>JMLA</i> resumed its regular quarterly publishing schedule.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 3","pages":"193-194"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12369959/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enabling discovery of the social determinants of health: using a specialized lens to see beyond the surface.","authors":"Cynthia Sheffield, Gisela Butera, Dera Tompkins, Vence Bonham, Deborah Duran, Kimberly Middleton, Corina Galindo","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.2186","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Investigators encounter challenges in uncovering valuable studies when they are researching health disparities and minority health literature. This evidence scan and qualitative/quantitative crosswalk analysis looked at maternal health literature to gain a better understanding of the nuances in articulating the social determinates of health (SDoH) concepts aligned with the NIMHD Research Framework. SDoH concepts describe the multifaceted causes of health disparities, as opposed to effects that result in health outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An evidence scan was conducted to identify literature for a health disparity population using infant low birth weight as a sample population. A qualitative and quantitative analysis of results was performed to examine the medical subject headings (MeSH) terms used to index the literature, along with the terminology used to describe various concepts related to the SDoH within the literature. A crosswalk of MeSH terms to SDoH concepts was used to see if a concentrated focus on SDoH concepts would improve discoverability of the literature.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The 31 articles selected demonstrated that 80% of the MeSH indexed keywords are unique within this collection of full text articles, despite the commonality of the topic. VOSviewer and a Python term counting program were used to visualize the diffusion of terminology. NVivo textual analysis revealed SDoH concepts within meaningful phrases within the literature. Major SDoH themes emerged from the analysis, although were not indexed. Authors used a crosswalk approach with SDoH concepts, to demonstrate that MeSH terms could be used to identify content with a more granular SDoH focus.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Identifying literature that has SDoH concepts within the full text is difficult, due to the diffused nature of the terminology used to describe these concepts. This paper proposes to demonstrate how a crosswalk approach from MeSH terminology to SDoH concepts can provide a methodology for improving the discoverability of the literature. New technologies such as natural language processing, combined with existing technologies to normalize disparate ways of describing similar or related constructs, could be used to help discover and synthesize literature related to SDoH. Investigators, indexers, and librarians can work together to create an improved process for researchers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 3","pages":"204-222"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12369968/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Acute mental health concerns in emergency settings: development and validation of an Ovid MEDLINE search filter.","authors":"Nicole Askin, Mark Heinrich Mueller","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.2081","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The authors sought to develop and validate a search filter to retrieve research about acute mental health concerns during public health emergencies. They did so as a response to a recommendation from a previously published paper on searching for evidence in emergency contexts.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The definition of acute mental health was adapted from the DSM-5 and the DynaMed entries on acute stress and posttraumatic stress disorder. The definition of public health emergencies was adapted from the Canadian Medical Protective Association. The authors retrieved systematic reviews on mental health concerns pertaining to people in the community and healthcare workers during public health emergencies from MEDLINE. The authors formulated gold standard sets for each population group using articles included in these reviews. The authors then separated the articles into development and validation sets. Keywords and Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms from the title and abstracts in the Ovid records in the development sets were used to formulate the filter. The filter was tested via the relative recall method using the validation sets. The authors then tested the filter for precision by conducting MEDLINE (Ovid) searches for the following topics for acute mental health: (i) children/adolescents and earthquakes; (ii) children/adolescents and Ebola outbreaks; (iii) healthcare workers and earthquakes; and (iv) healthcare workers and Ebola outbreaks.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The MEDLINE filter demonstrated 100% recall against the people in the community validation set and 98% recall against the healthcare worker validation set. The filter demonstrated the following percentages for the precision tests: (i) 94% for children/adolescents and earthquakes; (ii) 81% for children/adolescents and Ebola outbreaks; (iii) 81% for healthcare workers and earthquakes; and (iv) 79% for healthcare workers and Ebola outbreaks.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The authors developed a validated search filter that could be used to find evidence related to acute mental health concerns in public health emergencies. The authors recommend that researchers adapt and modify the search filter to reflect the unique mental health issues of their population groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 3","pages":"195-203"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12369960/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Breathing life into learning about air quality: developing and implementing environmental health outreach with high school students.","authors":"Katie Hoskins, Nguyen Dang, Fahad Molla","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.1895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.1895","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The San Joaquin Valley (SJV) is comprised of diverse populations that cumulatively are medically underserved and experience significant air pollution. The SJV regularly has poor air quality and does not meet the state and federal attainment standards for particulate matter (PM) 2.5, ozone (eight hours), and PM 10. Air pollutants contribute to a high incidence of emergency room visits and hospitalizations for conditions like asthma. Because air pollutants correlate with built environments, these outcomes are concentrated geographically, which is a major driver of social determinants of health. Librarians from an osteopathic medical school in the SJV developed an educational outreach session to inform high school students about the causes and health impacts of air pollution and how they can find resources to educate themselves and others in their communities.</p><p><strong>Case presentation: </strong>Two-hour interactive outreach sessions were provided at three local high schools in the SJV to students in health careers pathways. Librarians and student doctors guided high school students in health professions pathways through activities to understand the causes of poor air quality in the SJV; describe the different parts of the respiratory system and how air pollutants impact it; identify strategies for monitoring air quality and protecting their respiratory health; explore correlations between zip code and health outcomes; and access National Library of Medicine resources for reliable health information.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Librarians can lead effective health outreach programming. High school students who participated in the outreach sessions increased their understanding of AQI, the causes of poor air quality, and the health effects of air pollution.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 3","pages":"247-251"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12369958/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Librarians collaborating with instructors for course integration of virtual reality.","authors":"Ryan Gagen, Brooke Olson, Merete Christianson, Nicole Theis-Mahon","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.2090","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Health science libraries have invested in virtual reality technology and spaces to support use of this technology for teaching, learning, and research. Virtual reality has many uses within health sciences education such as simulation, exploration and learning, and soft skills development. It can also be used to build empathy in health sciences students through applications that provide an immersive, first-person perspective.</p><p><strong>Case presentation: </strong>This case describes how a health sciences library and liaison librarians partnered with a course instructor to support a class utilizing the library's virtual reality resources. Librarians were collaborators in the development of the class and facilitated class sessions in the Virtual Reality Studio. Class sessions utilized the Beatriz Lab by Embodied Labs to increase empathy in medical students who were interested in working with geriatric or Alzheimer's patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Liaison librarians support teaching and learning through a variety of tools and resources, including virtual reality. By partnering with instructors, librarians can use their instruction and collection knowledge to design and facilitate classes that are meaningful and interactive. Virtual reality applications provide another resource that librarians can incorporate into their course-integrated instruction sessions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 3","pages":"259-264"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12369969/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stepping up to the moment: collaborating on a data management and sharing workshop series.","authors":"Sara M Samuel, Yulia V Sevryugina, Mark MacEachern, Kate Saylor, Rachel Woodbrook","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.2070","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Many researchers benefit from training and assistance with their data management practices. The release of the Office of Science and Technology Policy's Nelson Memo and the National Institutes of Health's new Data Management and Sharing Policy created opportunities for librarians to engage with researchers regarding their data workflows. Within this environment, we-an interdisciplinary team of librarians and informationists at the University of Michigan (U-M)-recognized an opportunity to develop a series of data workshops that we then taught during the summer of 2023.</p><p><strong>Case presentation: </strong>The series was primarily aimed at graduate students and early career researchers, with a focus on the disciplines served by the authors in the Health Sciences - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (HS-STEM) unit of the U-M Library. We identified three topics to focus on: data management plans, organizing and managing data, and sharing data. Workshops on these topics were offered in June, July, and August 2023.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The number of registrants and attendees exceeded our expectations with 497 registrations across the three workshops (174/169/154, respectively), and 178 attendees (79/49/50, respectively). Registrants included faculty, staff, students, and more, and were primarily from the health sciences clinical and academic units. We received a total of 45 evaluations from the three workshops which were very positive. The slides and evaluation forms from each workshop are available through U-M's institutional repository. We developed these workshops at an opportune time on campus and successfully reached many researchers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 3","pages":"252-258"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12369970/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Systematic librarian-led zip code analysis to target underserved communities.","authors":"Rachel Roberts, Kelsey L Grabeel","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.2053","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>To compare the library's health information service usage area and customer topics with the hospital's reasons for hospitalizations to examine commonalities and explore potential growth opportunities within the community.</p><p><strong>Case presentation: </strong>Researchers partnered with the hospital for this project. IRB approval was received. Researchers gathered the health information service's 2022 data, which was de-identified. Data analyzed included zip code and customer topics, which were coded according to the hospital's business line, which was defined as why a patient was hospitalized or used the ED. The health information service's business lines were compared with the hospital's business lines. Lastly, researchers also reviewed the hospital's targeted zip codes to see if those overlapped with the top zip codes that utilize the health information service. The top zip codes that used the library's health information service were 37920, 37918, 37917, 37919, and 37876. Usage of the health information service varied across zip codes and topics. The most requested topics for the health information service and reasons for hospitalizations/ED visits were General Medicine in three of the five zip codes. Based on the data's results, librarians performed outreach to organizations in the targeted zip codes to increase visibility of the library's services.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The reasons people requested health information from the library aligned with hospitalizations and ED visits in most of the zip codes. Providing further outreach to the hospital's targeted zip codes will benefit both the hospital and the library by increasing usage of the health information service.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 3","pages":"241-246"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12369971/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Physical therapy students' perceptions of embedded medical librarians within evidence-based practice courses: a mixed-methods pilot study.","authors":"Lori Bolgla, Malorie Novak, Lachelle Smith","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.1977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.1977","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Previous work within academic medical centers has indicated the potential value of embedded medical librarian programs within health sciences professional degree programs. This study sought to determine the perceived benefit that an embedded medical librarian (EML) provided to an evidence-based practice (EBP) course within an entry-level physical therapy degree program.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Learners completed an anonymous survey at the end of an EBP course about the impact of the EML on the course and their own EML utilization. Frequency and percentages were calculated for quantitative data; qualitative data were analyzed using an iterative process for code development.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Forty (98%) learners completed the survey. Seventy-five point six percent of learners utilized the EML 1-2 times per class session and 31.7% outside of class sessions. Learners overwhelmingly \"agreed\" (53.7%) or \"strongly agreed\" (39.0%) that they would consult the EML for literature searches required in future courses. Seventy point seven percent \"strongly agreed\" that the EML improved their ability to conduct a literature search. All learners either \"agreed\" (43.9%) or \"strongly agreed\" (56.1%) that the EML added value to the course. Ninety point two percent considered the EML as an integral part of the course. Themes from the qualitative analysis agreed that the EML added value to the course and facilitated skills that would be useful throughout the curriculum.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Learners believe that having an EML improves their ability to conduct a literature search. Providing learners with EML access during their education experience facilitates development of this skill. Early and continued instruction throughout the entry-level DPT curriculum in informatics ensures program compliance with accreditation standards.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 2","pages":"143-147"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12058335/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144024782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}