Ann Duesing's research while affiliated with University of Virginia and other places

Publications (3)

Article
The University of Virginia's Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Southwest Virginia Outreach Program provides information services and resources to health organizations, health professionals, students, patients, health consumers, and community coalitions. Extending the Outreach Program partnership to a broader level has allowed the Outreach Librar...
Article
We read with interest the article by Eldredge et al. [1], as we attempted to replicate their randomized controlled trial, which took place in 2005/06, with our study of 69 public health practitioners in central and southwestern Virginia from February 2007 to December 2007. As with Eldredge et al., the increase in the sophistication of questions obt...
Conference Paper
This poster outlines a project providing Evidence Based Public Health Informatics training for public health practitioners in Central and Southwest Virginia. The project has been undertaken by outreach librarians from the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia and will replicate a randomized-controlled trial previously c...

Citations

... In our study, the number of questions actually decreased by 35% after training. Preliminary results of our study were presented at the 2007 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition [2]. ...
...  Specialist information services extending their services beyond their walls and traditional clientele. Examples are health libraries proactively reaching out to people in isolated rural areas, primary care workers in their workplaces, and patients at home (Kambeitz 2002;Robinson & Bawden 2007;Duesing 2009).  Proactively extending services to a wider range of peopleto what are often called "non-traditional" library users. ...