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The outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China (COVID-19) represents a significant and urgent threat to global health. Therefore, many publishers, like the ones below, are participating in the free exchange of current health information in order to ensure that research findings and data relevant to this outbreak are shared rapidly and openly to inform the public health response and help save lives. You can learn more at the Wellcome Trust.

Government and Organizational Resources

• ASTM International Standards & COVID-19

  • Over 20 Open Access standards that relate to medical masks, gowns, gloves, hand sanitizers, and other PPE and medical equipment. 

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)​

  • COVID-19 Guidance

  • Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)

  • Print resources

• Environmental Protection Agency Coronavirus (COVID-19)

• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

• Evidence Aid's Coronavirus (COVID-19) Evidence Collection

  • Over 50 summaries of systematic reviews relevant to COVID-19. 

• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

  • EUA Authorized Serology Test Performance
  • ​FDA Drug Shortages Database

• Maryland Department of Health (MDH)

  • ​MDH COVID-2019 FAQs PDF

  • Maryland Department of Health, PDF on coping with mental health and stress and anxiety during COVID-19, page 7 for healthcare workers

• Montgomery County Government, Department of Health and Human Services, COVID-19 Information

• National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), Directory of Local Health Departments

• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: Coronaviruses

• National Institutes of Health (NIH) COVID-19 research

• National Institutes of Health (NIH) COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines

• National Library of Medicine

  • ​DisasterLit (Grey literature)

  • GenBank (Annotated genome sequence)

  • LitCOVID (Curated literature hub) 

  • Medline Plus (Consumer level information)

    • Medline Plus (Spanish)

  • NCBI Virus (Search, retrieve, and analyze 2019-nCoV Genbank data)

  • PubMed (Scholarly literature database)

• Nextstrain (Genomic epidemiology of nCoV)

• Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)

• Pan American Health Organization, COVID-19 Guidance and the Latest Research in the Americas

• ProMED-mail (Publicly-available system conducting global reporting of outbreaks)

• University of Minnesota's Center of Infectious Disease Research and Policy

• University of Oxford and the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine's COVID-19 Evidence Service

• US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR)

  • COVID-19 Workforce Virtual Toolkit: Healthcare Decision-Making Responding to COVID-19 Workforce Concerns 

  • Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange (TRACIE) Coronavirus Topic Collections

    • Topic Collections for the following: Alternate Care Sites, Continuity of Operations, Crisis Standards of Care, Ethics, Healthcare-Related Disaster Legal/Regulatory/Federal Policy, Hospital Surge Capacity and Immediate Bed Availability, Influenza Epidemic/Pandemic, Mental/Behavioral Health, Responder Safety and Health, and Virtual Medical Care

• US Department of Homeland Security: Master Question List for COVID-19 (caused by SARS-CoV-2)
• US Government Response to Coronavirus, COVID-19

• World Health Organization (WHO)

  • WHO COVID-19 Database

YouTube was recently blocked on WRNMMC computers, so you may need to use personal phones/iPads to view educational videos.  

Educational Resources

• American College of Emergency Physician's (ACEP) COVID-19 CME Bundle

  • The bundle includes five lectures designed to help participants manage patients in the ED who present with symptoms related to COVID-19. It focuses on telemedicine; different types of ventilators, settings, and management of patients on ventilators; care of critical patients who require ICU care when the ICU is full; respiratory therapy and the pathophysiology and pharmacological management of acute decompensated heart failure.

• Bioethical and Legal Considerations during the COVID-19 Pandemic for Health Care Providers Live-Webinar (Defense Health Agency) - 09 April 2020. Must use login. 

• Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); various topics
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Preparedness and Response for Primary Care Providers, the National Nurse-Led Care Coalition (NNCC) (video resource)
• Coronavirus Quarantine and Psychosocial Support, Parts 1 and 2, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (video resource)
• COVID-19 Communication Skills, A VitalTalk open source primer for talking about COVID-19 (text resource)
• COVID-19 Hospital Impact Model for Epidemics (CHIME) Overview from DHA; Must access with CAC (video resource)
• COVID-19 ToolBox: National Capital Consortium Evaluation and Treatment for COVID-19 
  • ​Algorithms, CPG, Calculators, YouTube Videos, and Trackers

• COVID-19 Vaccine Training Module: The Immunization Healthcare Division in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) presents the COVID-19 Vaccine Training: General Overview of Immunization Best Practices for Health Care Providers Webinar. The webinar is also available for 2.0 Continuing Education (CE)/Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits through the Defense Health Agency, J7, Continuing Education Program Office. To earn CE/CMEs, participants must complete the training on the CDC site, then register at the following link: https://www.dhaj7-cepo.com/content/covid-19-vaccine-training and complete both the posttest/evaluation questions.

• Healthcare Systems Preparedness for COVID-19, YouTube video by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (video resource)
• "How to Obtain a Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimen" from the New England Journal of Medicine (video resource)
• IV Vasoactive Medication Basics for the Non-Intensivist...in the age of COVID-19, YouTube video by COL Bunin (video resource)
• Novel Coronavirus: A Physician's Guide, the American College of Physicians (learning activity)
• Mini Modules to Relieve Stress for Healthcare Workers Responding to COVID-19: Leading Towards Organizational Wellness in an Emergency, from HHS ASPR (video resource)
• Online micro learning activities on non-pharmaceutical countermeasures in relation to COVID-19, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (learning activity)
• Preparing Hospitals and Healthcare Personnel for Long-Term Respirator Usage, YouTube video from the Association of Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Professionals (AHEPP) (video resource)
• Relias - Preparing for Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Influenza: Free Online Training and Resources (learning activity/modules)
• Resilience Training for Healthcare Workers, from Massachusetts General Hospital (video resource)
• Shock Basics for the Non-Intensivist...in the age of COVID-19, YouTube video by COL Bunin (video resource)
• Society for Simulation in Healthcare: Helpful Links and Information on COVID-19 (video resource)
  • Watch recorded webinars and online events. 
• Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) COVID-19 Resources (learning activity)
  • ​Clinical resources include: Recognition and Assessment of the Seriously Ill Patient, Airway Management, Airway Assessment and Management, Critical Care for Older Adults, Diagnosis and Management of Acute Respiratory Failure, Mechanical Ventilation I, Mechanical Ventilation II, and Diagnosis and Management of Shock. 
  • Disaster Preparedness and Response resources include: ICU Microcosm Within Disaster Medical Response, Augmenting Critical Care Capacity During a Disaster, Disaster Triage and Allocation of Scarce Resources, Sustained Mechanical Ventilation Outside Traditional Intensive Care Units, and Biohazard Disasters: Natural and Intentional Outbreaks. 
• Sonosite's COVID-19 Educational Content (video resource)
  • Includes point-of-care ultrasound instructional videos
• Telehealth Tools and Training from the Defense Health Agency
• VA COVID-19 Training
• WRNMMC Internal Medicine's Journal Club Discussion Slides from 03 April 2020

Courses

• COVID-19: Tackling the Coronavirus
  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine an the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team via FutureLearn, approximately 12 hours over 4 weeks [Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)]

• Emerging respiratory viruses, including COVID-19: methods for detection, prevention, response and control

  • World Health Organization, approximately 3 hours to complete

• Science Matters: Let's Talk About COVID-19

  • Imperial College London via Coursera, approximately 19 hours over 8 weeks [Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)]
• OpenWHO: World Health Organization Training Courses

Guidance and Tools for Providers (for training, please select the Education tab)

• American Academy of Pediatrics' Critical Updates on COVID-19
• American College of Cardiology's COVID-19 Hub
• American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and MDGuidelines: Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• American College of Physicians, Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Information for Internists
• American Medical Association, COVID-19 Resource Center for Physicians
• American Society of Anesthesiologists, COVID-19 Information
• American Society of Clinical Oncology Coronavirus Resources
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Resources:
  • CDC Information for Healthcare Providers
  • CDC Information for Healthcare Facilities
  • CDC Information for Health Departments
  • CDC Information for Laboratories
• Coronavirus Checker: Check your risk for COVID-19
  • Developed through Uniformed Services University and Emory University
• COVID-19 ToolBox: National Capital Consortium Evaluation and Treatment for COVID-19 
  • ​Algorithms, CPG, Calculators, YouTube Videos, and Trackers
• DoD COVID-19 Practice Management Guide: Clinical Management of COVID-19
• DHA Antimicrobial Stewardship Mobile Application: COVID-19 Protocols
  • ​Guided algorithms for triage, treatment, and updated resource protocols
• Health Clarity's COVID-19 Resources and Tools (UpToDate and LexiComp)
• Joint Trauma System Center for COVID-19 Clinical Resources
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines

  • ​These Treatment Guidelines have been developed to inform clinicians how to care for patients with COVID-19. These Guidelines are updated frequently as published data and other authoritative information becomes available. The recommendations in these Guidelines are based on scientific evidence and expert opinion.

• University of California San Francisco's COVID-19 Global Clinical Knowledge Base

  • Protocols and practices from institutions across the country, as well as professional society guidelines.

• University of Washington's COVID-19 Resource Site: "Since the outbreak began, our colleagues, locally and nationally, have been reaching out to us for assistance as they start to see cases. We hope that by sharing our work, we can assist your teams and facilities to move more quickly and to spend more time responding and less time typing. Most of these documents have been written since Monday, February 24th 2020 and are undergoing frequent revisions as the COVID-19 situation evolves. When using the documents, we caution you to be mindful of the date the document was produced and to check that against current knowledge and evolving clinical standards."

 De-stress & Mindfulness​

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Managing Anxiety and Stress​
• COVID Colleague Connections
  • ​An online suportive connection between colleagues available for hospital staff and trainess. These groups can be joined anonymously, with or without video. Find community and check-in with colleagues working side by side against COVID-19. 
• Resources from Health.mil
  • mHealth Clinical Integration: Health apps and websites
  • Military Health Podcasts
• Keeping Well in COVID: Resources for Healthcare Professionals
• Maryland Department of Health, PDF on coping with mental health and stress and anxiety during COVID-19, page 7 for healthcare workers

Communication with Patients

• Supporting Communication with Patients who have COVID-19 from Patient Provider Communication

• COVID-19 Health Literacy Project

  • Patient fact sheets in 30+ languages; "We create and translate accessible COVID-19 information into different languages to help all patients know when, and how, to seek care. Our materials are created in collaboration with Harvard Health Publishing."

Interactive:

• COVID-19 Living Map of the Evidence from the Department of Health and Social Care Reviews Committee
• COVID-19 Primer
• COVID Risk Levels Dashboard from the Harvard Global Health Institute
• Genomic Epidemiology of Novel Coronavirus (HCoV-19)
• LitCOVID from the National Library of Medicine
• Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Health Map
• University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics' COVID-19 Projections

• Vaccine Tracker by Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

• WHO Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Dashboard

Coronavirus Data

• HealthData.gov Coronavirus datasets
• NIH Open-Access Data and Computational Resources to Address COVID-19

Click here for the Federal Government's Telework Program

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Just for fun - check our some of our telework "co-workers" (AKA pets!) and add your own! 

Access to the Darnall Medical Library and its resources is available to WRNMMC staff teleworking. For access information, please see links below:

• EZproxy (remote access)
• EndNote (citation manager)
• Mobile Apps
• Troubleshooting Access Issues
• Video tutorials
• Contact Library Staff for article requests, literature searches, or general questions

Literature Searching

Ask a librarian for assistance with a literature search

​A lit search is searching a database for targeted results on your topic

• Contact us for a lit search for these types of questions:
  • Patient care questions (extremely quick turn-around, not as in-depth searching)
  • Questions with clinical implications (fast turn-around with some lee-way depending on the extent of research)
  • Questions related to grand rounds and presentations (we always try to meet your deadlines),
  • Research/QI project searching 

Results will typically be delivered as a list or link to citations

• We may attach some PDFs to give you a quick start
• We can send you results as an Endnote Library or word document of citation + abstract if that is your preferred format. 

Other related pieces to lit searching:

• We're happy to teach you to search literature efficiently on your own
• We can consult on best keywords, phrases, and controlled vocabulary for your searches if you want to work with us instead of have us conduct the search for you. 
• We can also work with you to see if there have been similar papers/projects done in the past, though rule-out searches are tricky based on database availability. 
• We offer assistance with extensive/long-term research projects such as systematic reviews/meta-analysis/scoping reviews, but we request that you meet with us so we can discuss library services and timeframes.

Request document delivery if you're looking for full-text PDFs for citations you've found

Set up a an NCBI account

My NCBI allows you to save searches, save collections of citations, manage filters, and save site preferences for major NCBI databases in PubMed.

We recommend setting up a free account (you don't have to use your @health.mil address) so you can have personalized features, such as the links to full text results, highlighting of your search results, and the abstracts displayed when you search rather than just the summaries of articles.

Once you've created an account, go to the Filters box, click on "Manage Filters" and then select "Link Out". In the box, type in "Darnall" and check off both the boxes for filter and link icon. Next, in the search box, type in "Free Full Text," and check off the box for "filter."

Now you can go back to the top of the screen and click on "MyNCBI" again to customize your results display. Choose "NCBI Site Preferences" then, on the next page, change your highlighting preferences to a color of your choice (it is probably default to a non-color), and your "result display setting" to "abstract" and whichever number you choose instead of summary. You're all set and ready to search!

More information on NCBI accounts (there's a lot more to them, including saved searches)

Signing up for an account

MyNCBI Site Help

Tips and Tricks for Teleworking during COVID-19

• American Academy of Pediatrics' Working and Learning from Home During the COVID-19 Outbreak 
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Managing Anxiety and Stress
• Salisbury University's guide for Activities for Kids during COVID-19 Closings. 
• The Scholarly Kitchen's Building Your Remote Workforce: Including Tips & Tricks for Social Distancing

Local Information

• DC's Coronavirus Response

• Health Protection Condition (HPCON) for Naval District Washington 

• Maryland Department of Health (MDH)​

• Montgomery County Government, Department of Health and Human Services, COVID-19 Information

• Virginia Department of Health's Coronavirus Response

• Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority - COVID-19

The Darnall Medical Library Team are here to assist WRNMMC!

• Need assistance with retrieving articles related to COVID-19? Click here. 
• Looking for librarian assistance with a clinical care question or searching the literature?  Click here. 
• Looking for librarian assistance with research? Click here.