Episode 131: NLM Is Changing Health Care Through the Power of Data

Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health, joins Nancy Houlihan, MA, RN, AOCN®, ONS president, to discuss PubMed, NLM’s free database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics, and NLM’s strategic plan for leveraging the library’s resources to accelerate data-driven health care.  

Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod 

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Episode Notes 

Check out these resources from today’s episode: 

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ONS Voice article: Nurse Takes Helm at NIH National Library of Medicine 

ONS Voice article: Nurses Are Advancing Research in Data-Powered Science 

Clinicaltrials.gov 

LitCovid, NLM’s curated literature hub on the COVID-19 coronavirus 

MedlinePlus (for providers)  

MedlinePlus Connect (for patients and caregivers) 

Patricia Brennan’s blog, NLM Musings From the Mezzanine 

PubMed database 

PubMed New and Noteworthy overviews of the improvements to the new PubMed 

PubMed user guide 

PubMed and Medline resources guide