{"id":3302,"date":"2014-10-21T14:27:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/transitions\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2014-10-21T14:27:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:27:24","slug":"the-importance-of-open-access-medical-literature-by-james-amos-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/10\/21\/the-importance-of-open-access-medical-literature-by-james-amos-md\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of open access medical literature, by James Amos, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Amos, MD, Department of Psychiatry at The University of Iowa, continues our celebration of Open Access Week with a guest post on the importance of free access to medical articles for patients and their families.<\/p>\n<p>The importance of open access medical literature<\/p>\n<p>James Amos, MD<\/p>\n<p>As a consulting psychiatrist, I teach medical students and residents, I really appreciate open access medical literature. We have a weekly case conference called Clinical Problems in Consultation Psychiatry, a practical way to teach the Practice-Based Learning &amp; Improvement Core Competency.<\/p>\n<p>This helps develop the habit of reflecting on and analyzing one\u2019s practice performance; locating and applying scientific evidence to\u00a0 the care of patients; critically appraising the medical literature; using the computer to support learning and patient care, and facilitating the education of other health care professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Recurring topics are delirium and dementia. Our recommendations for patients, families, and colleagues depend on free, easy access to studies and reviews.<\/p>\n<p>A poignant reminder was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2014\/09\/health\/sandys-story\/index.html?hpt=hp_c3\">recent CNN article<\/a> about a man struggling to cope with early state Alzheimer\u2019s disease. He said, \u201cAll we really are is our thoughts\u2026\u201d Ironically, mindfulness research tells us the opposite might be true. A paper in the Directory of Open Access Journals reviews the growing research literature on the role of mindfulness in moderating the suffering of those with dementia [1].<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Marciniak, R., et al. (2014). &#8220;Effect of meditation on cognitive functions in context of aging and neurodegenerative diseases.&#8221; Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 8.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Amos, MD, Department of Psychiatry at The University of Iowa, continues our celebration of Open Access Week with a guest post on the importance of free access to medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3303,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions\/3303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}