In reading this post from one of the moderators of the LNCExchange
discussion group on Yahoo Groups, I recognized immediately that Elizabeth
Zorn has put some excellent experience based knowledge and links to some
important web resources into this post that may be useful to the readers
of this discussion group and the list itself LNCExchange is open to
contributions by members and a source of excellent information shared by
quite a few list posters.
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So below my signature lines one will find some very good information from
Elizabeth Zorn regarding expert witnesses.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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jwne@temple.edu
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Subject: [LegalMed] Expert Witness Guidelines - Tips for Obtaining Hard Copies
of Clinical Guidelines and Journal Articles
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 00:24:06 -0400
From: Elizabeth Zorn <elzorn@faraci.com>
To: LNCExchange@yahoogroups.com, LegalMed@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LegalMed] Expert Witness Guidelines - tips for obtaining hard copies
of clinical guidelines and journal articles
Thought I would pass along some of my tips for finding hard copies of full text
clinical guidelines and journal articles:
I. Clinical Guidelines
1. Go the website of the Professional Organization that promulgated the
guideline - many times the current guidelines are available at no cost in PDF
format and can be downloaded. To find the website, just Google it. If you need
an older version of the guideline, call the organization and ask to speak with
someone in their library or publications dept. See example below from David
Dillard's list of articles related to expert witness guidelines;
"Guidelines for Infectious Disease Specialists serving as Expert Witnesses"
Clinical Infectious Diseases. 5/15/2005 v. 40 no. 10 p. 1393-1394.
http://www.idsociety.org/search.aspx?q=Expert
<http://www.idsociety.org/search.aspx?q=Expert> .
2. Google the entire cite to find out if it is in full text some where on the
internet;
3. ECRI (www.ecri.org) now has full text clinical guidelines in their Health
Care Standards Online - it is a paid subscription (about $500 per year) but
well worth it for any firm which does a lot of med mal; if you work in a firm
or are independent and do a lot of work for one firm, get the partnership to
spring for a subscription;
4. If the clinical guidelines are published in a journal, find the cite and
follow suggestions below for locating the article.
II.Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
1. I always start with MD Consult due to their large collection of full text
articles which can be downloaded at no cost. It is a paid annual subscription
but with the special rate for LNCs, it is well worth it (contact me if you need
the details about this);
2. Use the "advanced search" function of Google scholar - this will give you
the internet sites in which the article is available in full text - sometimes
at no cost; many times for a fee ranging from $10 to $40 per article;
3. Go to the online site for the journal and search for back issues - sometimes
older articles are available at no cost; other times there is a fee;
4. Visit a local medical library and find/copy the article(s);
5. Request the article via interlibrary loan at your public library;
6. Use an article retrieval service - the best that I know of is Leroy
Ellenberger: http://www.riggsconsulting.net/retrieval/
Below are some sites for obtaining full text articles, which frankly, I have
not investigated much but am passing them along:
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
<http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl>
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/ej.html
<http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/ej.html>
http://www.doaj.org/ <http://www.doaj.org/>
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/ <http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/>
http://www.medical-journals.com/ <http://www.medical-journals.com/>
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3689
<http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3689>
http://www.publist.com/ <http://www.publist.com/>
http://web.dohms.gov.ae/medlib/remote/newJournals.htm
<http://web.dohms.gov.ae/medlib/remote/newJournals.htm>
Hope this is helpful. Have a great weekend!
Beth Zorn, RN, BSN, LNCC
888-325-5150
www.faraci.com <http://www.faraci.com/>
Co-moderator LNCExchange
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