Ensuring access to consumer health information pamphlets at Capital Health.

Program objective - The objective of the program was to create a catalogue of patient education pamphlets and provide a stable in-house platform for the database that is sustainable with current staff resources. Rationale - Capital Health has an excellent selection of more than 1000 pamphlets specif...

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Publicado en:Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association (JCHLA) Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 105 - 109
Autores principales: Logan P, King E
Formato: pictorial tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Canadian Health Libraries Association Fall2006
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          Logan P
          King E
        affil: Halifax Infirmary, Room 2212, 1796 Summer Street, Halifax, NS B3H 3A7, Canada; penny.logan@cdha.nshealth.ca
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          Consumer Health Information
          Libraries, Health Sciences
          Website Development
          Access to Information
          World Wide Web
      ab: Program objective - The objective of the program was to create a catalogue of patient education pamphlets and provide a stable in-house platform for the database that is sustainable with current staff resources. Rationale - Capital Health has an excellent selection of more than 1000 pamphlets specifically for patients. These pamphlets need to be accessible from the Internet, and they need to be housed on a Capital Health Web page. Main components - The main components were cataloguing the content, designing a user-friendly Web page, ensuring ongoing cataloguing is sustainable, and educating users. Setting - Capital Health, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Participants - Eleanor King, Patient Education Coordinator, Capital Health; Myrna Lawson, Library Technician; Penny Logan, Manager Library Services; Pearl Murphy, Web Coordinator; Boyd Sharpe, Systems Analyst; Deb Cameron, Graphic Designer. Program - The program was to ensure Web access to patient pamphlets. Results - 679 patient pamphlets were catalogued and presented on a user-friendly Web page in a searchable database that is controlled in-house and that can easily be kept up-to-date with current staff and systems. Conclusion - Library software and expertise can be used for more than just a catalogue of books and journals. By using already-available software and expertise, maintaining the pamphlets database can be accommodated without additional expense.
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