Disease relevance of Information Services

• The main features of research into HIV and AIDS between 1981 and 1990 were examined using a database of medical, nursing and dental journals [compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) version of the Medline database (Silver Platter Information Services, London, UK)] [1].
• As part of a collaboration with the Health Department, UP-National Poisons Control and Information Service, the National Institute for Minamata Disease (NIMD), Japan, provided technical assistance in the analytical determination of mercury in biological and environmental samples [2].
• A Multi-Source Information System (MSIS) has been designed for the Renal Epidemiology and Information Network (REIN) dedicated to End-Stage Renal Disease. Interoperability has been considered at 4 levels: semantics, network, formats and contents [3].

High impact information on Information Services

• These tactics can be supplemented or replaced by using Current Contents or the Selective Dissemination of Information service of the National Library of Medicine and other database vendors [4].
• The Lithium Information Center has been functioning as a specialized psychiatric information service for nearly ten years [5].
• Molecular Probe Data Base has been made available on-line through the Internet by means of Network Information Retrieval (NIR) tools since 1993 [6].
• The American Hospital Formulary Service information books beat the PDR [7].
• RESULTS: We followed up 295 pregnancies exposed to omeprazole [233 in the first trimester (T1)], 62 to lansoprazole (55 in T1) and 53 to pantoprazole (47 in T1), and compared pregnancy outcome to that of 868 European Network of Teratology Information Services controls [8].

Biological context of Information Services

• The gene initially was named "Bristle on arista" or "Brista" because one aspect of the phenotype is the formation of leg bristles on the antenna (Sato [1984] Drosophila Information Service 60:180-182; Sunkel and Whittle [1987] Wilhelm Roux's. Arch. Dev. Biol. 196:124-132) [9].
• Folic acid supplementation use among women who contact a teratology information service [10].
• METHODS: To further examine the relationship between nickel, cobalt, chromate, and the factors that may potentially be related to concurrent sensitizations to two or all three metal allergens, data from the Information Network of Dermatology Departments have been investigated [11].
• METHODS: The Israeli Teratogen Information Service prospectively collected and followed up 228 women exposed to metronidazole in pregnancy, 86.2% of whom with first-trimester exposure [12].

Associations of Information Services with chemical compounds

• To encourage the development of similar psychiatric information services, we outline the center's methods of acquiring, organizing, and disseminating lithium information [5].
• The State Cancer Control Map and Data Program (National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va) allows state and county mortality maps and data tables to be tailored according to the user's choice of cancer site, age, gender, race, county, and time period between 1953 and 1987 [13].
• OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the percentage of the women who call a teratology information service who take folic acid before conception [10].
• METHODS: All enquiries to the London centre of the National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) between December 1993 and March 1996 were screened for cases of MDMA use associated with hyponatraemia (serum sodium <130 mmol/l) [14].
• STUDY DESIGN: The Israeli Teratogen Information Service prospectively collected and followed 192 pregnancies exposed to mebendazole in pregnancy, 71.5% of whom had first-trimester exposure [15].

Gene context of Information Services

• OBJECTIVES: In 1996 we created the population-based University of Manitoba Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Database. In 1994, Manitoba Health established the Drug Program Information Network (DPIN), which identified all ambulatory prescription drugs dispensed to each individual resident of the province [16].
• Such an algorithm has been designed by Fachinformationszentrun Energie, Physik, Mathematik GmbH in Karlsruhe, West Germany (FIZ Karlsruhe), the European service center of STN International, the scientific and technical information network [17].
• NHS Direct, a public access information service staffed by nurses, also made increasing use of the system [18].
• The Great Lakes Information Network: the region's Internet information service [19].
• The uptake rates and size of different risk groups from the panel survey were comparable with other national representative sources (from the National Information Network of GPs (LINH) and Statistics Netherlands (CBS)) [20].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Information Services

• The INFORMM NIS (Information Network For Online Retrieval & Medical Management Nursing Information System) provides on-line documentation of patient care orders [21].

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