Research involving the public as partners often proves difficult to locate due to the variations in terms used to describe public involvement, and inability of medical databases to index this concept effectively.
The principles of evidence-based medicine have been critiqued by the ‘caring’ professions, such as nursing and social work, and evidence-informed medicine has been proposed as a more client-centred, integrative approach to practice. The purpose of this study was to explore how Canadian health science librarians who serve nurses and allied health professionals define good service and how they negotiate evidence-based principles in their searching strategies.
Looks at different types of customer service centre staff - identifies the type managers prefer (empathisers) are not as good at solving customers' problems as 'controllers'. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
The MRC requires that the results of the research it funds are published, ideally in peer-reviewed journals; also that all such articles, whether published in an open access or subscription-based journal, must be archived in Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) and made freely available as soon as possible, and in any event within six months of the first on‐line publication.
The health education team in western Sussex has developed a You Tube video
https://youtu.be/2iZz38HOhAg that further highlights the value of a clinical librarian.
While the result (that RRs and SRs give similar results) is no surprise the fact that they found 9 articles is more than I was aware of!
Again, if they give similar results and one costs considerably more than the other I wonder what the ethical position is of spending the additional resource?
A new Be Food Smart app has been developed to highlight just how much sugar, saturated fat and salt can be found in everyday food and drink that their children consume.
The free app helps and encourages families to choose healthier options and works by scanning the barcode of products allowing parents to compare brands, and features food detective activities for children and mini missions the whole family can enjoy.
The study included 30 drug names that are commonly misspelt on prescription charts in hospitals in Birmingham, UK (test set), and 30 control names randomly chosen from a hospital formulary (control set). The following definitions were used: standard names—the international non-proprietary names, variant names—deviations in spelling from standard names that are not themselves standard names in English language nomenclature, and hidden reference variants—variant spellings that identified publications in textword (tw) searches of PubMed or other databases, and which were not identified by textword searches for the standard names. Variant names were generated from standard names by applying letter substitutions, omissions, additions, transpositions, duplications, deduplications, and combinations of these. Searches were carried out in PubMed (30 June 2016) for “standard name[tw]” and “variant name[tw] NOT standard name[tw].”
Conclusion When performing searches, researchers should include misspellings of drug names among their search terms. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
The findings from each of the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Library Network’s eleven library sites resulted in six user typology categories: e-Ninjas, Social Scholars, Peace Seekers, Classic Clickers, Page Turners and Knowledge Tappers.
The first community-run library in Telford and Wrekin has formally opened for business – and it will get off to a festive start by hosting a Christmas market on Thursday.
Stirchley Community Library will be run by Stirchley and Brookside Parish Council at the Sambrook Centre in a tangible example of strong partnership working.
Are you looking for information on the cost effectiveness of different treatments, or cost-benefit analyses? Published economic evaluations are a good place to start, but they’re not always easy to find in the literature, so below are some suggestions for places to look and ways to search for them.
This Library briefing paper discusses the current reform of EU data protection law, the interaction with UK law, and the potential consequences of Brexit in this area.
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Lisa Marzano on a recent survey of Internet use in people with psychosis and depression, which explores the extent of the digital divide in mental health.
The Click Guide to Dementia has been developed to help people find out about these organisations, products, services and bloggers. The Click Guide to Dementia brings together more than a hundred of the most useful resources, with an overview and explanations as well as hyperlinks to websites, blogs, facebook pages and twitter feeds.
Topics covered in the Guide range from information, advocacy and carer support through to specialist dementia shops and services.
IHealth Education England (HEE) has worked with Public Concern at Work and the National Guardian Office to develop a package of online learning resources that aim to encourage and support NHS staff to raise and respond to concerns.
Available on HEE’s e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) website, two e-learning sessions promote relevant policies, procedures, best practice and available support in relation to raising and responding to concerns.
Anders Huitfeldt argues that the answer depends on your definition of “risk factor” and calls for greater clarity in research
The risk factor approach to epidemiology was introduced by the Framingham Heart Study investigators, who first alluded to the idea in 1951. The first use of the term “factor of risk” appeared in 1961, but it was not precisely defined. The resulting semantic confusion has hindered precise communication about study design and data analysis. To illustrate the problem, let us suppose that you want to study the causes and distribution of personal wealth. NB looks at definitions of terms in research. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Open access. Book review. Attachment Theory in Adult Mental Health: A Guide to Clinical Practice Edited by Adam N. Danquah and Katherine Berry Routledge 2014, £29.99, pb, 250 pp. ISBN: 9780415687416
In the opening chapter of this tour through attachment theory, Jeremy Holmes suggests a good question to ask patients: ‘Who would you contact first if there was an emergency or crisis in your life?’ This is a great way to get to the bottom of who your attachment figure is. Interestingly, during my read of this book I found myself thinking – ‘which chapter will I turn to for support with my clinical problems?’
Open access. Book review. Enabling Recovery: The Principles and Practice of Rehabilitation Psychiatry (2nd edn) Edited by Frank Holloway, Sridevi Kalidindi, Helen Killaspy and Glenn Roberts RCPsych Publications, 2015, £35, pb, 496 pp. ISBN: 9781909726338
The first edition of Enabling Recovery was a much-welcomed arrival for the discipline of rehabilitation psychiatry as it emerged from its marginal ‘resettlement’ function in the late 1990s. The discipline is now accepted as part of mainstream psychiatric practice.
This second edition takes into account new data and developments, and adds an international perspective.
We’ve been expanding our Knowledge Navigator tool to cover additional forms of information, including:
Dissertations and Theses
Grey literature
Pre-processed and pre-appraised evidence
Economic evaluations
Together for Mental Wellbeing is delivering and developing mental health Inclusion and Recovery support across Lichfield, Tamworth, and East Staffordshire from 1 November 2016. The new service will work with people in a flexible way, tailoring support to their wants and needs and working alongside them to achieve goals that are important to them.
Two stakeholder engagement events are being held in January 2017 as a chance for stakeholders and partners to come together and find out more about Together UK and the mental wellbeing service they will be offering across East Staffordshire, Lichfield and Tamworth.
Una Foye on a recent narrative review that aimed to identify & summarise research examining depression & anxiety in the context of social networking sites.
We have got a number of developments that we want to get out before the end of the year, the most important being the answer engine.
The answer engine works by interpreting the search terms to infer the question and then using a variety of techniques to find the best answer. This is then displayed at the top of the results.
If you work for the NHS England can you please complete this brief poll below.
This year Health Education England paid for a trial of Trip Pro for all staff in England and as we approach the end of the year we’re discussing what happens next year. This poll should help inform these discussions. NOTE: To register your vote you need to press the ‘Vote’ button under each of the three questions.
A quick demonstration of how to access journals online. This session will include information on getting and using an Athens password, how to find out which journals we subscribe to, accessing full text journal articles, setting up alerts and using journal apps. Our journals are both clinical and non-clinical (such as Harvard Business Review) so the session is suitable for all staff.
There are some changes to our journal subscriptions for 2017. HSJ and the Nursing Times will no longer be published in print so our subscriptions will be available online only.
In this article, Raymond Pun, an academic librarian, shares his experiences in collaborating with Stan Bogdanov, an instructional designer, to promote gamification programs in libraries. The two professionals, from different institutions in different parts of the world, have presented on their gamification projects and programs in conferences, jointly and independently. The article shares their thoughts on employing gamification in libraries by highlighting key examples from their experiences and describing how readers can apply gamification aspects to their own projects. Gamification provides a lot of opportunities for your users. From developing skills associated with interactive game play to promoting de-stressing activities, gamification can facilitate innovative learning. Certainly, it is not the answer to all of a learner's problems. While it may not work for everyone, gamification can serve as an effective tool to enhance your library services and is a concept certainly worth exploring. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
We have established a team of ‘Copyright First Responders’ which includes NHS library staff from each region. Our role will be to provide advice and answers where we can, and refer you to other experts if we can’t.
We will also maintain a central store of guidance and FAQs at http://www.libraryservices.nhs.uk/forlibrarystaff/information/nhs_copyright.html .
We have set up a single email address: nhscopyrightqueries@libraryservices.nhs.uk. So if you have a query about copyright, don’t break out into a cold sweat, contact us and we’ll respond!
The new updated People with Learning Disabilities in England 2016 has been published today and can be found here here
It is a compendium of statistics about the lives of people with learning disabilities. The report covers a wide range of information about population numbers, education, health and social care.