We were having a significant postoperative recurrence risk in our pilonidal sinus surgery patients. We were able to review the published literature (including the original publications of the Gips technique) and modify our preoperative counseling and postoperative follow up in order to improve our patient outcomes.

Very positive feedback to library staff - they are ALWAYS professional and responsive. It's hard to imagine practicing medicine or writing any sort of review or research paper without them. They are critical to literature searches about specific patient or research topics. Their expertise in database searches and suggestions are invaluable. Wish I had more time to acquire a fraction of their skills but physician's busy busy schedules don't allow time for that. I can only say "Please keep doing what you do!!!" We can't do our jobs without you!!!

This is a fantastic resource for our medical communities which allows us to improve the quality of care we deliver to our patients.

There is so much information available these days. It's extremely time consuming to locate and harness this valuable information. Utilizing medical librarians has allowed me to focus on my role in creating and maintaining care quality. I am capable at finding information but definitely not efficient and likely not comprehensive in my searches. Librarians have also been helpful in expanding my search beyond my initial request. This has been great, since I had not even thought of some of their suggestions. I find their services at Cone Health to be extremely invaluable!

There are many instances where their help has been invaluable. I am also impressed at how quickly they have responded to any request given!! One instance where they helped has to do with the fact that teenage women have been experiencing often severe pain during a specific procedure, this has been occurring nationwide. They helped pull the articles that guide the standard of care, so that we could review the articles and the quality of the research, and based on them, we are beginning our own study protocol that we believe will help our patients, and hopefully the teenage female population as a whole.

The support I receive from AHEC library services for my literature searches and article requests is outstanding. On an almost daily basis I submit article requests which support my research, along with evidence based care and quality initiatives as part of my medical directorship role, and the responsiveness of AHEC consistently outstanding

The research staff provided articles that were relevant to my clinical research, saving me untold amounts of time and money, trying to identify those that are real, and those that are generated by artificial intelligence in some cases

The monthly lit searches i get from library staff help keep me up to date with trends for nurse retention; also, being able to request articles is an amazing time saver, and has helped tremendously with preparing presentations and articles for publication.

The library service allows quick and easy access to most recent literature. This is crucial in reviewing new genetic diagnoses of which little is known about other than what is published in sometimes as little as one or two scientific articles. This helps guide patient care and provide vital information for families in understanding their loved one's diagnosis and future.

The articles provided by the AHEC research staff have been valuable in helping my colleagues achieve credibility for our novel therapeutic in treating nearly moribund patients at the onset of the pandemic viral disorder known as COVID-19. This was esp relevant when there were NO therapies other than supportive ICU care. The AHEC articles requested led us to a team of pre-clinical researchers half-way around the world who were willing and able to incorporate our novel therapeutic concepts into their own molecular and immunological experiments to document what we observed clinically. The unique experimental discoveries provided credence for therapeutic concepts given consistently positive clinical outcomes. We credit the AHEC staff for having the expertise to sort through seemingly relevant published information as they were able to discern between AI hallucinations and reality. In essence, their contributions have identified that AI research remains in its infancy with significant limitations esp relevant during the timeframe of February 2020 to June 2025. Our own publications have acquired achieved an authenticity not otherwise acquired had we relied solely on machine learning, i.e. AI.

Our library services offer numerous benefits that can help to improve the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of our clinical work. We have access to high-quality resources and our librarian is an expert who can guide us to the best resources for our topics, refine search terms, and assist with literature reviews.

Our facility had an unannounced accreditation survey focused on a particular care service. The library was highly responsive and able to pull research on expected rates of particular complications after procedures. This freed the clinical team up to pull case information and data. Robert Shapiro was highly helpful in a time-sensitive situation. Our library is invaluable in supporting our clinical work.

Now that I am no longer in a degree program, I don't have access to the enormous resources of a university library. NC AHEC is my only source for publications in refereed journals. Without AHEC I would not be able to do my job: I would not be able to report the latest findings on topics like Resiliency, Burnout. In last summer, I provided a lecture on the neuroscience and impact of Gratitude. I would not have been able to do that without the search capabilities of CINAHL and document support of NC AHEC.

My work would not have been possible without the staff of the Medical Library and how they have helped me.

My team is often under tight deadlines to produce funding applications that will ultimately support crucial health programming. The library staff is better at finding supporting information than we ever could be, and we are able to proceed with writing, assured that we have sufficient current information to support our projects well.

Many of the resources I am able to locate for my research in both basic science and clinical medicine are not open access and provide only abstract information. Having AHEC Library services helps to educate me and expand my own knowledge base so I may in turn disseminate new and better ideas for novel therapeutics based on sound science.

Love the AHEC Library Service. Consistently an awesome resource!

It is nice to know you have someone there to help you gain access to research articles that you would not otherwise be able to view, even with a school login. They are very knowledgeable and quick to respond to requests.

I really appreciate having access to articles that help me keep up to date on the latest research relating to exercise and dizziness, as those are predominately what relates to my role as a physical therapist.

I have all positive things to say about my experience thus far with the library. I have needed to request a number of more obscure articles to guide evidence based practice for difficult cases and they have been exceptionally quick in getting articles for me. I look forward to partnering with the librarians more for upcoming literature review that I will need to do as I become more established in a leadership role within our unit.

I am so grateful for the services of our medical librarians and am amazed at how quickly they were able to respond to my requests for articles. Their expertise at locating information has helped our department ensure we are teaching current evidence-based practice in our classes for expectant families.

Great service that comes in handy. Constantly use it for clinical care, review of the latest guidelines and recommendations, and to ensure practicing latest evidence-based medicine.

I am better informed and feel more comfortable doing searches and finding evidence-based practice and using this to enhance patient safety and experiences.

Northwest AHEC has been a major factor in the library services at Wilkes Regional Medical Center. The AHEC librarian helped me decide which books to use and to get our first library established. AHEC librarians are instrumental in journal and literature searches . . . Nursing staff can access information by going to the AHEC Digital Library and looking in journals for current information, or they can ask for a literature search or do it themselves. I just have to say that the Northwest AHEC librarians are wonderful!

Barbara Willens, BSN, RN