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End of Life Resource
A Pathfinder for Print and Electronic Resources
Introduction
Bibliography of
Material in the End of Life Collection
Finding material in
Orbis
Journals owned by
the Medical Library
Finding material
in Journals
Databases
Web Resources
This pathfinder is an evolving guide to print and non-print
resources designed to improve care at the end of life. Its main
focus is to identify materials that will support teaching. A
Guide for Patients is available for
patients and their families but also serves as a beginning point
for clinicians.
The End of Life Collection is housed in the Reference area of the
Information Room. The materials that form the basis of this
collection are a donation from Florence
Wald. Materials continue to be selected for this special
collection and encompass all types of print and nonprint materials
covering all aspects of the End of Life.
Look at the current alphabetical list of
materials in the End of Life Collection.
Because end of life issues cross many disciplines, there are many
libraries at Yale that will have books and other materials
available. Search Orbis (Yale's online catalog)
under the following suggested keywords:
- Palliative
- Grief
- Grieving
- Bereavement
- Counseling
- Terminal care
- Loss
- Death
- Consolation
- Hospice
- Mourning
- Life change events
Consider searching by keyword (k=) to cross a subject topic with
a particular format (video) or location (Divinity). For example, to
locate a video on loss, you would do the following search:
- k= loss and f.fmt. (f indicates visual
materials in the format field)
- k= grief and div.loc. (div indicates
divinity in the location field)
To locate materials in the End of Life Collection at the Medical
Library, do the following search:
- k= end of life and med.loc.
American journal of hospice & palliative care Vol. 15 (1998)
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Clinical journal of pain Vol 13 (1997) -
Clinical journal of pain online Vol. 12 (1996)-
Hospice journal Vol 1 (1985/1986) -
Journal of pain and symptom management Vol 10 (1995)-
Journal of palliative care Vol. 13 (1997) -
Year book of anesthesiology and pain management 1992-
The journal literature will include current information on end of
life issues. Because the topic is cross discipline, there are
several databases that could be important to use. Usually the
library will have both a print and an electronic version of the
database available. The electronic version is a powerful tool for
searching the literature. The computer allows you to combine topics
easily and rapidly as well as search for words or phrases in the
titles and abstracts of journal articles efficiently.
- Subject Headings for MEDLINE
- Attitude to Death
- Bereavement
- Grief
- Terminal Care
- Hospice Care
- Palliative Care
- Counseling
- Life change events
- Euthanasia
- Ethics
- Advance directives
- Subject Headings for PsycINFO
- Death Attitudes
- Death and Dying
- Euthanasia
- Palliative Care
- Terminally ill patients
- Treatment withholding
- Advance directives
- Assisted suicide
- Grief
- Mourning
- Suffering
- Subject Headings for Social Science Citation Index
- Try all combinations of the above subject headings as
keywords.
MEDLINE is the most comprehensive online resource for
national and international medical literature. MEDLINE covers all
aspects of biomedicine, including the allied health fields, as well
as the biological and physical sciences, humanities and information
science as they relate to medicine and health care. MEDLINE is an
Ovid
database.
PsycINFO covers the professional and academic literature
in psychology and related disciplines including medicine,
psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology,
physiology, linguistics, and other areas. PsycINFO is international
in scope, and includes references and abstracts to over 1300
journals in more than 20 languages, and to english language book
chapters and books. Over 50,000 references are added annually
(popular literature excluded). PsycINFO is updated monthly and
produced by the American Psychological Association. PsycINFO is an
Ovid
database.
Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary
database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal
literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,700 journals
spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected,
relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific
and technical journals. Social Sciences Citation Index is available
from ISI's Web of
Science.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) is a database
of evaluation and measurement tools designed to facilitate health
and psychosocial studies. The measurement instruments available
include questionnaires, checklists, index measures, rating scales,
project techniques, tests, interview schedules, and a variety of
other means of evaluations. Accessing these tools allows
researchers to locate a variety of research methods, to reduce
inefficiency and cost, and to eliminate research duplication. This
unique database is a powerful tool which is valuable to
practitioners, educators, researchers, and students conducting
projects from class papers to grant proposals and dissertations.
The database currently contains over 32,000 records. HaPI is an
Ovid database.
Bioethicsline contains information on value questions in
health care and biomedicine. It addresses the ethical and public
policy aspects of topics such as abortion, genetic intervention,
and euthanasia. Materials are selected from the literature of
medicine, nursing, biological sciences, philosophy, religion, law
and the behavioral sciences as well as the popular media.
Bioethicsline is available from Internet Grateful Med.
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