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McMaster Optimal Aging Portal: an evidence-based database for geriatrics-focused health professionals

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this work was to provide easy access to reliable health information based on good quality research that will help health care professionals to learn what works best for seniors to stay as healthy as possible, manage health conditions and build supportive health systems. T...

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Autores principales: Barbara, Angela M., Dobbins, Maureen, Brian Haynes, R., Iorio, Alfonso, Lavis, John N., Raina, Parminder, Levinson, Anthony J.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5504718/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28693544
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2595-8
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author Barbara, Angela M.
Dobbins, Maureen
Brian Haynes, R.
Iorio, Alfonso
Lavis, John N.
Raina, Parminder
Levinson, Anthony J.
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Brian Haynes, R.
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description OBJECTIVE: The objective of this work was to provide easy access to reliable health information based on good quality research that will help health care professionals to learn what works best for seniors to stay as healthy as possible, manage health conditions and build supportive health systems. This will help meet the demands of our aging population that clinicians provide high quality care for older adults, that public health professionals deliver disease prevention and health promotion strategies across the life span, and that policymakers address the economic and social need to create a robust health system and a healthy society for all ages. RESULTS: The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal’s (Portal) professional bibliographic database contains high quality scientific evidence about optimal aging specifically targeted to clinicians, public health professionals and policymakers. The database content comes from three information services: McMaster Premium LiteratUre Service (MacPLUS™), Health Evidence™ and Health Systems Evidence. The Portal is continually updated, freely accessible online, easily searchable, and provides email-based alerts when new records are added. The database is being continually assessed for value, usability and use. A number of improvements are planned, including French language translation of content, increased linkages between related records within the Portal database, and inclusion of additional types of content. While this article focuses on the professional database, the Portal also houses resources for patients, caregivers and the general public, which may also be of interest to geriatric practitioners and researchers.
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spelling pubmed-55047182017-07-12 McMaster Optimal Aging Portal: an evidence-based database for geriatrics-focused health professionals Barbara, Angela M. Dobbins, Maureen Brian Haynes, R. Iorio, Alfonso Lavis, John N. Raina, Parminder Levinson, Anthony J. BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: The objective of this work was to provide easy access to reliable health information based on good quality research that will help health care professionals to learn what works best for seniors to stay as healthy as possible, manage health conditions and build supportive health systems. This will help meet the demands of our aging population that clinicians provide high quality care for older adults, that public health professionals deliver disease prevention and health promotion strategies across the life span, and that policymakers address the economic and social need to create a robust health system and a healthy society for all ages. RESULTS: The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal’s (Portal) professional bibliographic database contains high quality scientific evidence about optimal aging specifically targeted to clinicians, public health professionals and policymakers. The database content comes from three information services: McMaster Premium LiteratUre Service (MacPLUS™), Health Evidence™ and Health Systems Evidence. The Portal is continually updated, freely accessible online, easily searchable, and provides email-based alerts when new records are added. The database is being continually assessed for value, usability and use. A number of improvements are planned, including French language translation of content, increased linkages between related records within the Portal database, and inclusion of additional types of content. While this article focuses on the professional database, the Portal also houses resources for patients, caregivers and the general public, which may also be of interest to geriatric practitioners and researchers. BioMed Central 2017-07-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5504718/ /pubmed/28693544 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2595-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Dobbins, Maureen
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Iorio, Alfonso
Lavis, John N.
Raina, Parminder
Levinson, Anthony J.
McMaster Optimal Aging Portal: an evidence-based database for geriatrics-focused health professionals
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title_full McMaster Optimal Aging Portal: an evidence-based database for geriatrics-focused health professionals
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title_short McMaster Optimal Aging Portal: an evidence-based database for geriatrics-focused health professionals
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