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The OSUMC Heart Program focuses on three main service lines: Cardiovascular Medicine, Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Surgery. Research is focused on heart failure, ischemic disease, transplantation, arrhythmias/electrophysiology and vascular medicine. Program leaders are William Abraham, MD and Larry Anstine

The resources below support research, education and patient care on the Heart:

Databases

MEDLINE : Available through PubMed, OVID, and OhioLINK. All support access to electronic journals, e-mail alerts and downloading to reference management software.

Science Citation Index : Provides subject and author searching; tracking of references cited in journal articles. Citation alert feature sends e-mail notices of future citations to a specific article. Supports access to electronic journals.

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews : Includes the ACP Journal Club, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Clinical Trials, the Database of Systematic Review, and the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness. Full text.

Micromedex : A collection of databases offering comprehensive information on drugs, alternative medicine therapies, toxicology, and patient care

BIOSIS : Covers the worldwide biological literature; particularly useful for conference proceedings.Links to OSU and OhioLINK electronic journals

Journals ( E-Journals A-Z list )

General

Cardiology

Cardiovascular

E-Books

Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 8th ed. - edited by Peter Libby et al. (2007)
Clinical Electrocardiography: A Simplified Approach, 6th ed. - by Ary L. Goldberger (1999)
Haimovici's Vascular Surgery - edited by Enrico Ascher et al. (2004)
Hurst's the Heart: Manual of Cardiology, 10th ed. - edited by Robert A. O'Rourke et al. (2001)
Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine: Principles and Practice, 2nd ed. - edited by Richard S. Stack et al. (2002)

More full text books with chapters or discussion of cardiovascular medicine, cardiac surgery and vascular surgery are available at NetLibrary, MDConsult and PubMed’s Bookshelf.

Managing Heart Services Resources

These Pubmed searches are a sampling of journal literature on several heart program management topics

Economics: Economic aspects of any subject, as well as for all aspects of financial management. It includes the raising or providing of funds.

Personalized medicine: The ability to offer the appropriate treatment to the right person, only when needed.

Practice Guidelines: Directions or principles to assist the health care practitioner with patient care decisions about appropriate diagnostic, therapeutic, or other clinical procedures for specific clinical circumstances.

Standards: Facilities, personnel, and program headings for the development, testing, and application of standards of adequacy or acceptable performance and with chemicals and drugs for standards of identification, quality, and potency.

Trends: Qualitative or quantitative changes over time, whether past, present, or future.

Utilization: Equipment, facilities, programs, services, and health personnel for discussions, usually with data, of how much they are used. Discussions of overuse and underuse.