Margaret Ansell

Librarian University of Florida

Gainesville FL

Margaret Ansell's research focuses on empowering people to find, navigate and use health, research and legislative information.

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Biography

Margaret Ansell is a health sciences librarian passionate about empowering health consumers, nurses and librarians to understand and conduct research to improve health and advocate for their health needs and professional interests. Margaret has experience with advocacy's intersection with marketing and health information education, as well as research methods education. Margaret is also currently associate chair of the Health Sciences Library.

Areas of Expertise

Nursing Librarianship

Evidence Synthesis Methodologies

Health Information for Patients

Consumer Health Information

Health Information Advocacy

Health Sciences Librarianship

Social

Articles

Sharing Consumer Health Information in Florida: Understanding Challenges to Navigating Health Care Library Organization Collaboration

Journal of Hospital Librarianship

Brigham, et al.

2024-08-30

In 2019, the Florida Health Sciences Library Association (FHSLA) and the Tampa Bay Library Consortium, Inc. (TBLC) joined together to increase awareness of reliable vetted health information resources for Florida residents. FHSLA, composed of approximately 75 academic/health sciences/hospital librarians, contacted TBLC, composed of public librarians and various library personnel in Florida, to explore opportunities for their members to work together and network through monthly health-focused webinars. This article describes their collaborative initiative.

Facilitating rural access to quality health information through Little Free Libraries

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Morgan-Daniel, et al.

2023-10-02

In 2020 the Health Science Center Libraries (HSCL) at the University of Florida collaborated with the Okeechobee County Public library (OCPL) on their plan to install Little Free Libraries (LFLs) within their community. It was agreed that the HSCL would provide consumer health-related materials for the Little Free Libraries and training with the goal of improving health literacy, precision medicine, and increasing rural access to consumer health materials and services.

The relationship between electronic health records user interface features and data quality of patient clinical information: an integrative review

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Madandola, et al.

2023-09-22

Electronic health records (EHRs) user interfaces (UI) designed for data entry can potentially impact the quality of patient information captured in the EHRs. This review identified and synthesized the literature evidence about the relationship of UI features in EHRs on data quality (DQ).