Cindy began her library career at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions with a focus on Evidenced Based Medicine. While at the Welch Medical Library she progressed in roles, leaving Hopkins as the Associate Director of Education Services. Cindy went on to work at several federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Virology
Global Vaccine Injury Programs
Preformulated Literature Searches
PubMed/MEDLINE search on global vaccine injury compensation programs. No date or language limits applied.
Legal Resources
Seminal Court Decisions: These will encompass critical published decisions, particularly by the Court of Federal Claims and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which have formed the basis for the current legal standards for the program.
Special Master Decisions: These will encompass published decisions by individual special masters. We will provide those decisions.
Meta-Analysis: Quantifying a Systematic Review
The purpose of this class is to introduce the fundamentals of conducting a meta-analysis. The focus will be on randomized clinical trials; however, the presenter will also briefly discuss the application of meta-analyses in laboratory and observational (epidemiological) studies.
Preformulated Literature Searches
PubMed/MEDLINE searches
The following searches were run in PubMed/MEDLINE for vaccine + specific adverse reactions and limited to a publication date of 2014 to the present. This is a general vaccine search and not specific. The search strategies used are included below so you can see why certain topics or articles were retrieved. [tiab] = to search the term in the Title & Abstract fields only; [mesh] = search the term in the Medical Subject Headings field only.