Scott Memorial Library Reference Tips

Have you ever entered an author’s last name, journal name and maybe a volume number or a couple of keywords into that PubMed general search box to retrieve a citation you already knew about only to get 0 hits? You may have even found your citation previously in a PubMed subject search so you know it’s GOT to be in there! Well, that kind of search failed because the old PubMed tried mapping your terms to the MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) thesaurus or it searched the Title, Abstract or Keywords of a record according to its Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) rules. Finding citations was best done using the “Single Citation Matcher” in the left sidebar. Now, however, everything has changed.

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21st century America is a vibrant cultural mix; where else will you find jalapeno pierogies?

But because health care is such a personal matter, awareness of cultural norms and traditions can help providers deliver services to diverse health care consumers most effectively. JEFFLINE and Scott Library offer resources to help you understand these differences:

On JEFFLINE, you can find:.

• The Guide to Culturally Competent Health Carewith chapters on several dozen ethnic groups discussing communication, family roles and organization, high-risk health behaviors, nutrition, pregnancy and childbearing practices, death rituals, spirituality and health-care practices and practitioners. It’s part of the Stat!Ref collection on the JEFFLINE homepage Clinical Consults section.

• The Rehabilitation Provider’s Guide to Cultures of the Foreign-Born, part of the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE) website, from the University of Buffalo. These 11-monographs describe the cultural perspectives of foreign-born persons in the United States, especially recent immigrants. The monographs, which vary in content, discuss cultural concepts about disability and independence geared at rehabilitation services for immigrant patients. The CIRRIE site is linked on JEFFLINE’s list of all databases.

Prefer a print book? Check out

• the Joint Commission’s Providing culturally and linguistically competent health care or
• Transcultural health care : a culturally competent approach,

found on the library’s 4th floor.