I love it when we roll out new features and few have been as significant and innovative as this one. Over the last few months I’ve been working with the wonderful team at RobotReviewer to introduce two major improvements to Trip.
The MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, based at the University of Glasgow, today launches a free, interactive websiteopens in new window designed to explain complex health research.
The Understanding Health Researchopens in new window website is the creation of a collaboration between the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit and an advisory panel of academics*. [We need to look at this in the library]
Methods In response to the challenges of finding timely, pertinent information on diagnostic test accuracy, we developed an online, crowd-sourced Wiki on diagnostic test accuracy called Get the Diagnosis (GTD, http://www.getthediagnosis.org). To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
‘Google’ is now officially a verb in the Oxford English Dictionary—considered the most authoritative dictionary of the English language. With all of this technology and freely available digital information, Google is changing the way doctors practise medicine and how doctors consult patients. For all the benefits technology provides, it does provoke anxiety. In a recent letter, a rheumatologist describes a scene at rounds where a professor asked the presenting fellow to explain how he arrived at his diagnosis. ‘I entered the salient features into Google, and [the diagnosis] popped right up’.1
The phrase ‘Please do not confuse your Google search for my medical degree’ printed on a mug has been making the rounds on multiple social media forums and internet sites in recent times. This reflects the emerging use of the World Wide Web by patients to obtain information (and misinformation) and how the internet impacts the practising of modern medicine. Most clinicians will be familiar with the increasingly …...To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Smartphones are ubiquitous and commonly used as a learning and information resource. They have potential to revolutionize medical education and medical practice. The iDoc project provides a medical textbook smartphone app to newly-qualified doctors working in Wales. The project was designed to assist doctors in their transition from medical school to workplace, a period associated with high levels of cognitive demand and stress.
Recently, we were involved in a project to update the Fertility Centre website and Andrew James of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s Transformation Team had this to say.
Evidence-based guidelines represent a form of ‘evidence-based practice’; defined 20 years ago as the integration of clinical experience, patient preference and research findings (Sackett et al, 1996). Guidelines, such as those published by NICE, provide a series of ‘quality statements’ that are then enacted in clinical practice. At least that’s the theory..........