User talk:Jb

From Ganfyd

Please excuse me tweaking your page! I'm assuming that you are not yet accustomed to Wiki formatting - if I'm wrong, and you wanted it that way, then please accept my apologies!

If you "edit" your page, or look at the page history, you'll see how I've changed it... --Penglish 16:57, 2 February 2006 (CET)

Its a boon having you here - lots of pointers to interesting info sources I would otherwise miss. Thanks. --A.l.brown 12:22, 6 February 2006 (CET)

signing remarks on talk pages

the convention and shortcut is to add four tildes at the end which automagivally signs the comment. Otherwise one needs to look at the history to pick up the flow of talk. It is possible to modify the sig from standard, we probably should do that for members who are not medics and possibly for all of us. SOme WP sigs are quite elaborate, but that is less good. Midgley 12:39, 10 February 2006 (CET)

clinical calculators, TRIP search and medical algorithms

Are clinical calculators fairly similar to and medical algorithms?

Would it be possible to build an extension which did TRIP searches, like Adam's hubnet one, and have it work with anyne who has an Athens account or even look up other methods of authentication? Midgley 15:15, 14 February 2006 (CET)

I think the bigger issue is that very few UK doctors have access, via ATHENs, to TRIP. One of our subscribers is MSD (for use with their Univadis portal) and users of that site get free access. There may be some way of using that link - but not sure how open people are to have their money... I'm happy to share with you a complete list of our clinical calculators via e-mail(we link to 283). When TRIP goes free-access (still not quite there) I'd be delighted to let ganfyd plunder the content (in fact ganfyd has given me extra reason to go 'free'). I'm not massively technical but we have created a SOAP interface - might that be a useful way of extracting the appropriate content?--Jb 18:45, 14 February 2006 (CET)

I had wondered about a calculator repository here on ganfyd some time ago, but never got round to designing a calculator engine (basically I was thinking of some kind of php page which could run various 'plug-in' equations such as GFR, BMI, BSA, PPV, Sens & Spec, etc, etc + some kind of imagemapper so nomograms, graphs and the like oculd be used). It wouldn't be technically too difficult I don't think, but would be time-consuming. Anyway, it would go at http://calculate.ganfyd.org - as you can see there is just a placeholder there at the moment. Anything that would help get that up and running would be great!!! --A.l.brown 18:41, 14 February 2006 (CET)

I saw that idea on the forum, and wrote a small thing for BMI and GFR. I think I could quickly knock together the sort of thing you describe above. I can do it this evening, after dancing. Btw, I'm not showing off or anything, but does anyone like this normal distribution demo I wrote for a lecturer? [1] Rupert 20:38, 14 February 2006 (CET)

Shall I e-mail you separately the list? (it's currently in excel (can send as .csv if easier) with two main fields - 'title' and URL) You can then go through the list pick which you want to include. There are some duplications - but not that many. Also, a warning is probably needed saying something like "ganfyd has not verifed these calculations"--Jb 18:49, 14 February 2006 (CET)

That would be very useful. I'll try and do something with them in the next couple of weeks but I am a bit busy at work. Still, lots of time! --A.l.brown 18:55, 14 February 2006 (CET)

As an aside, I have a few old (i.e. out of copyright) medical books at home, some dating back to the 1800s. I had this idea that they could be scanned in and viewed as e-books here. I have provisionally installed something at http://library.ganfyd.org which would do the trick (allows for scanned images in a hierarchical structure Bookshelf -> Book -> Chapter -> Individual Pages, plus the OCR text in electronic form under the scan, all browsable). Currently there are just some random images there to test the concept as I've not scanned anything in. A useful project (there must be lots of books out there, and Google books just doesn't do it for me) or just a bit of navel gazing? --A.l.brown 18:55, 14 February 2006 (CET)

Ended up putting the clinical calculators in a new area http://ganfyd.org didn't let me edit it...

For info - I just placed the calculations on there as no time to organise or distribute. Perhaps people can take what they want and I'll do my bit when I've got a bit mroe time --Jb 21:35, 14 February 2006 (CET)

==re: hublog==

Thanks very much for the heads up. Good to see you back here again! --A.l.brown 10:58, 30 March 2006 (CEST)

sorry, I can't work out SRY

http://ganfyd.org/index.php?title=SRY Midgley 19:11, 9 April 2006 (CEST)

Diethlystibestrol

Given orally, I think. You may not have found anything linking to it due to the spelling. The BNF spell it as diethylstilbestrol or stilboestrol, but not diethylstilboestrol. Very confusing! Mark ong

TRIP Search algorithm

Hi, We've altered the URL of ganfyd slightly - ganfyd.org now auto-redirects to www.ganfyd.org, as do any urls based on this. I don't expect it will cause a problem with the TRIP search engine, but if it does I'd suggest changing to www.ganfyd.org

The reason for this is technical - it means that cookies can be shared amongst subdomains, which will come in useful for things like pedagogic learning landscape software like elgg or moodle which may be part of a ganfyd enhancement.

Cheers, --A.l.brown 02:13, 22 October 2006 (BST)

Hows your Norwegian?

We have got a Norwegian version of ganfyd in development at http://no.ganfyd.org in conjunction with some of your Norwegian coutnerparts at helsebibliotekken. --A.l.brown 16:53, 27 March 2007 (BST)