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C Workshop on Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Resources: Agenda, Participants, and Summary of Focus Group Discussions
Pages 153-160

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... 2:30 p.m. Registration Room 1 10 Welcome-Room 110 Howard Kipen, Committee Chair Kathleen Stratton, Deputy Director, IOM Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Current Use of Toxicology/Environmental Health Information Resources Focus Groups Rooms 1 14, 1 16, 127, 128 1.
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From page 154...
... Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC Gail Buckler Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Piscataway, NJ Keith Burkhart Central Pennsylvania Poison Center Hershey, PA Maureen Caborette Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health Baltimore, MD TOXICOLOGYAND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH INFORMATION INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE Workshop on Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Resources May 22, 1996 PARTICIPANTS Ann Cary George Mason University Fairfax, VA Cathleen Clancy National Capital Poison Center Washington, DC Robert Copeland Howard University College of Medicine Washington, DC Mark Ennen George Washington University School of Medicine Washington, DC Steve Galson U.S. Depal llllent of Energy Washington, DC Rosemary Garrett U.S.
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From page 155...
... Public Health Service Bethesda, MD Nadia Shalauta Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health Baltimore, MD Anthony Shephard Howard University College of Medicine Washington, DC Ginny Stone University of Maryland at Baltimore Baltimore, MD Gregory Szlyk George Washington University School of Medicine Washington, DC Terrance Tobias Dalghren Memorial Library Georgetown University Washington, DC
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From page 156...
... 156 TOXICOLOGYAND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTHINFO~ATION Anne Tschirgi Maryland Poison Center Baltimore, MD Daniel Wartenberg Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute Piscataway, NJ
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From page 157...
... Facilitators from Jupiter Corporation, a scientific consulting firm, worked with input from committee members and IOM staff to develop a structured set of questions and issues that were then discussed in the focus group sessions. Focus group participants included specialists in toxicology and environmental health (e.g., poison control center staff and occupational and environmental health professionals)
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From page 158...
... Specialists, researchers, and government policy advisors had the broadest range of information needs, citing almost all topics related to toxicology and environmental health, including short-term and long-term effects of exposure, dose-response information, epidemiologic data, regulatory and policy requirements and background information leading to the drafting of regulations, scientific and regulatory information from the international community, personal protective information, workplace release and exposures, treatment protocols, status of research and studies, and analytic chemistry data. Methods and Sources Used to Locate and Retrieve Information Focus group participants indicated that the methods or sources of information they use depend primarily on whether the information need is acute (time critical)
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From page 159...
... Since all were computer literate, lack of ability or unwillingness to use a computer were not barriers to using online databases. Toxicology and environmental health specialists, researchers, and information specialists used online databases most frequently, followed by government policy advisors.
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... Participants also had suggestions for improving health professionals' awareness of online databases including increasing training courses, particularly hands-on workshops, and online or demonstration disk tutorials; improved technical support resources, such as a toll-free telephone help-line, good help instructions, or user-friendly manuals and documentation; and advertising through articles in journals, newsletters, and other media.
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