Dear readers:
Hello to all.
One of the most critical tools to enable and facilitate research to improve patient care is access to new information and transfer of technologies. Scientific publications and peer reviewed journals are one of the most powerful tools in this regard. However, access to publications is very limited in developing countries for several reasons, but mostly the high costs of subscriptions and membership fees to some of the organizations that own the journals.
Many of you are aware that IAHPC, through an agreement with EBSCO, offers access for our members to a large database of journals and publications. The CINAHL database is a means to bridge this gap. Our members are able to access thousands of citations and hundreds of journals including the following:
You can find instructions on how to use the CINAHL database and how to download full text articles in these journals here.
We also want to highlight Pallipedia, our online Palliative Care Dictionary, at www.pallipedia.org. The objective of Pallipedia is to develop and continuously grow a high quality, objective educational resource for the global Palliative Care community. Pallipedia currently has 929 terms and 1,092 definitions (several terms have more than one definition). The team at Pallium India, under the leadership of Dr MR Rajagopal, started working in the dictionary during the second semester of 2012 in order to update the definitions. We will continue working with them on this project. By the end of 2013 we hope to have reached more than 1,200 terms.
This edition of the NL also features a piece by Dr. Eduardo Bruera about another great educational resource which enables palliative care workers from around the globe to access an annual intensive board review course given by the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Long distance learning education with access to new information has been demonstrated to be a very cost effective way to reach large audiences.
We hope you take advantage of these resources and use them to improve and advance palliative care in your own settings and practice.
Best wishes to all and until next month,
Regards,
Roberto Wenk, MD
Chair, Board of Directors
Liliana De Lima, MHA
Executive Director
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