The following pamphlets were revised or created in April 2021. Please note, on the Print Code Index, French translations are no longer listed under their own Print Code heading (FF), but are integrated into their respective subject/service area to facilitate easier browsing.
Please contact pamphlets@nshealth.ca or call 902-464-3146 with any questions about patient pamphlets. You can search for pamphlet PDFs by title, keyword, or four digit pamphlet number in the library catalogue, or see the complete listing of active titles in our Print Code Index.
Arabic Translations
AR85-2152 NEW (Arabic) Room Options in the Hospital (English: WX85-1622, French: FF85-1629)
Breast
WS85-0457 Breast Reduction Surgery: Care at Home
Cardiovascular System
WG85-0158 Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair (EVAR)
Chinese (Simplified)
CH85-2168 NEW Patient and Family Ethics Tool: Help with Ethical Issues (English: WX85-2056, French: FF85-2142, Arabic: AR85-2153)
French Translations (en français)
FF85-1682 Frais médicaux pour les visiteurs de l’extérieur du pays: Vallée de l'Annapolis, Rive-Sud, Sud-Ouest (English: WX85-1681)
FF85-1684 Frais médicaux pour les visiteurs de l’extérieur du pays: Cap-Breton, Guysborough, Antigonish (English: WX85-1683)
FF85-1686 Frais médicaux pour les visiteurs de l’extérieur du pays: Colchester-East Hants, Cumberland, Pictou (English: WX85-1685)
FF85-1688 Frais médicaux pour les visiteurs de l’extérieur du pays: Région d'Halifax et West Hants (English: WX85-1687)
FF85-1743 Injection de stéroïde pour l’oeil (English: WW85-1101)
FF85-1783 Injection de Botox® (English: WW85-0282)
FF85-2175 NEW Lignes directrices pour s’alimenter sans danger (English: LC85-0527)
FF85-2176 NEW Adénoïdectomie: Hôpital régional Valley (English: WV85-2070)
FF85-2177 NEW Amygdalectomie et adénoïdectomie: Hôpital régional Valley (English: WV85-2071)
Gynecology & Reproductive Health
WP85-1513 Vulvar Skin Care Tips
WP85-1529 Lichen Sclerosus
Hospitals
WX85-2173 NEW Preparing for Home: From Admission to Discharge - Northern Zone
WX85-2178 NEW Early Warning Score
Medications
QV85-1571 PICC Line
QV85-2179 NEW Oral Magnesium Supplements - Integrated Chronic Care Service
Nervous System
WL85-0060 Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
WL85-0614 Your Halo Brace
WL85-2174 NEW Perseveration after an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
Nutrition & Food
LC85-0528 Signs of Dehydration
Ophthalmology
WW85-1840 Thyroid Eye Disease (French: FF85-1919)
Otorhinolaryngology
WV85-0302 Nose Surgery
WV85-1538 Endoscopic Repair of a Blocked Tear Duct
Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation
WB85-1426 Using Your Walking Aid
Respiratory System
WF85-0542 Thoracentesis
WF85-0712 Bronchoscopy
Surgery
WO85-0201 After Toenail Removal
Carmen Dorey
Library Technician, Patient Pamphlets
Nova Scotia Hospital, Central Zone
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a huge increase in the publication of biomedical articles. Submissions to Elsevier’s health and medical journals increased by 92% between February and May 2020 over the same period in 2019 (Else, 2020).
As COVID-19 research rapidly evolves, there have been a few notable retractions of published results.
Retraction Watch maintains a running list of COVID-19-related papers that have been withdrawn from publication; however, this issue is far broader and older than the pandemic. Articles may be retracted for a number of reasons, ranging from honest mistakes, to deliberate manipulation of the peer review process, plagiarism, or falsification of data. A 2016 study of articles retracted from BioMed Central journals between 2000 and 2015 found that 76% of the retractions were due to some form of misconduct (Moylan & Kowalczuk, 2016). The reason for a retraction is not always transparent.
Impact of retractions
Although “[r]etracting problematic articles helps to maintain the accuracy and integrity of the biomedical literature” (Gaudino et al, 2021), several studies have shown that many retracted articles continue to be cited long after they have been withdrawn (Candal-Pedreira et al., 2020; Gaudino et al., 2021; Theis-Mahon & Bakker, 2020). One notorious example of this is the 1998 paper by Wakefield et al., which linked vaccines and autism. It was cited at least 881 times between its partial retraction in 2004 and final retraction in 2010 (Candal-Pedreira et al., 2020).
Authors may unintentionally cite retracted articles for several reasons:
For example, although the retracted status is noted, full text of this retracted article from the New England Journal of Medicine is still available on the journal’s website:
(Mehra, Desai, Kuy, Henry, & Patel 2020)
Be aware!
Citing retracted articles can have serious consequences and, in the case of inaccurate medical research, may even pose risks to patient health (Candal-Pedreira et al., 2020; Teixeira da Silva & Bornemann-Cimenti, 2017).
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) 2018 guidelines for submission to medical journals state that “authors are responsible for checking that none of the[ir] references cite retracted articles except in the context of referring to the retraction” (p.18).
If you are writing for publication, you can check your citation list for retracted articles by:
If you have questions about article retractions, email us at AskLibrary@nshealth.ca or book an appointment with a Library Services staff member.
See all References
1. Candal-Pedreira, C., Ruano-Ravina, A., Fernández, E., Ramos, J., Campos-Varela, I., & Pérez-Ríos, M. (2020). Does retraction after misconduct have an impact on citations? A pre-post study. BMJ Global Health, 5(11), e003719. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003719
2. Else, H. (2020, December 16). How a torrent of COVID science changed research publishing — in seven charts. Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03564-y
3. Gaudino, M., Robinson, N. B., Audisio, K., Rahouma, M., Benedetto, U., Kurlansky, P., & Fremes, S. E. (2021). Trends and characteristics of retracted articles in the biomedical literature, 1971 to 2020. JAMA Internal Medicine, e211807. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.1807
4. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. (2019, December). Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf
5. Mehra, M. R., Desai, S. S., Kuy, S., Henry, T. D., & Patel, A. N. (2020). Cardiovascular disease, drug therapy, and mortality in Covid-19. The New England Journal of Medicine, 382(25), e102. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2007621 (Retraction published N Engl J Med. 2020 Jun 4). Screenshot by author.
6. Moylan, E. C., & Kowalczuk, M. K. (2016). Why articles are retracted: a retrospective cross-sectional study of retraction notices at BioMed Central. BMJ Open, 6(11), e012047. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012047
7. Retraction Watch. (2020, December 15). The top retractions of 2020. The Scientist. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/the-top-retractions-of-2020-68284
8. Teixeira da Silva, J.A., Bornemann-Cimenti, H. (2017). Why do some retracted papers continue to be cited? Scientometrics 110, 365–370. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2178-9
9. Theis-Mahon, N. R., & Bakker, C. J. (2020). The continued citation of retracted publications in dentistry. Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA, 108(3), 389–397.
Roxanne MacMillan
Librarian Educator
Dickson Building, Central Zone