A validated geographic search filter for the retrieval of research about the United Kingdom (UK) from bibliographic databases had not previously been published.
CILIP, the library and information association, and KPMG have today, Thursday 6 July, announced that they are working together to publish a revised and updated edition of Information as an Asset: The Boardroom Agenda, originally written by a committee under the chairmanship of Dr Robert Hawley on behalf of the KPMG IMPACT programme.
There is a consensus that website design, clear layout, interactive features, and the authority of the owner have a positive effect on trust or credibility, whereas advertising has a negative effect. With regard to content features, authority of the author, ease of use, and content have a positive effect on trust or credibility formation. Demographic factors influencing trust formation are age, gender, and perceived health status.
NOTE only included in librarian update as may be quite US orientated. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice48.3 (Jun 2017): 199-210.
mHealth denotes the use of mobile devices within a health care context. One type of mHealth that has gained increased popularity is the use of mobile applications (apps). Despite a plethora of apps that are commercially available, the efficacy or effectiveness of these apps is largely unknown. This article reviews the literature on the use of mental health mobile apps in a psychotherapy context. The review focuses on the efficacy or effectiveness and common features of mental health apps. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Public health nurses (PHNs) are challenged in obtaining opportunities to learn evidence-based practice (EBP). An interdisciplinary alliance was created between health sciences librarians and nurse educators to create a continuing education (CE) opportunity.
To determine whether calculation of a ‘Number Needed to Retrieve’ (NNTR) is possible and desirable as a means of evaluating the utility of a database for systematic review.
n June 2014, National Voices set out to explore and test how communities of practice could facilitate the spread of large-scale change across England’s voluntary sector working for health and wellbeing.
This publication reflects on our experiences over the last 3 years, and in the spirit of communities of practice, aims to share reflections in order that others can use our learning.
Paul Gooding describes a joint project looking at the impact of the expansion of legal deposit to include digital material and the challenges that these e-legal deposits pose for the academic sector and its interactions with institutional and regulatory systems.
Today’s computers are capable of processing large quantities of data quickly and efficiently. This has focused some attention on ‘big data’, ‘open data’, and, more recently, artificial intelligence. What do these capabilities mean more fundamentally for library and information collections?
Academic fraud and research misconduct can manifest in many ways. In the olden days, we tend to think of research misconduct as falsifying or fabrication of data, or copying from other publications, including the author’s own previous or simultaneous publications. In recent years, academic fraud has taken a more sophisticated turn....To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Concerns with the usability of electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) systems can lead to the development of workarounds by users. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Substantial sums of money are being invested worldwide in health information technology. Realising benefits and mitigating safety risks is however highly dependent on effective integration of information within systems and/or interfacing to allow information exchange across systems. As part of an English programme of research, we explored the social and technical challenges relating to integration and interfacing experienced by early adopter hospitals of standalone and hospital-wide multimodular integrated electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) systems. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Cyberchondria refers to the repeated use of the Internet to search for health-related information, which leads to negative consequences. This two-part study provides the first known examination of how cyberchondria relates to (a) problematic Internet use and (b) metacognitive beliefs. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text.
Only about a third (37%) of the public trust evidence from medical research, compared to approximately two-thirds (65%) who trust the experiences of their friends and family*, according to a report launched today.
Last month we reported repeated problems keeping our Cochrane records up to date and asked users to decide what we should do. Overwhelmingly people said we should stop linking to Wiley’s Cochrane Library domain and link to PubMed.
Public Health England (PHE) collects and analyses available child and maternal health data and produces intelligence resources to help with improving services and outcomes.
This guidance supports commissioners, service planners and other healthcare professionals with using these resources to make or influence decisions about services that improve the health of children, young people and pregnant women.
We’ve just heard that SSOTP will not be renewing their agreement with SSSFT LKS for library services for this financial year. Because of this we will be reviewing our Be Aware bulletins. Sadly we won’t be accepting any new sign-ups from SSOTP staff and will be withdrawing some of the physical healthcare bulletins that we…
Conclusions: The indirect paths from health literacy via information seeking and empowerment to GP consultations can be interpreted as a dynamic process and an expression of the ability to find, process, and understand relevant information when that is necessary.
Conclusions: Older adults are a diverse group in terms of their activities on the Internet. This underlines the importance to look beyond use versus nonuse when studying older adults’ Internet use. The clusters we have identified in this study can help tailor the development and deployment of eHealth intervention to specific segments of the older population.
The Answer Engine started less than 6 months ago and has firmly established itself as a well-loved feature on Trip. Currently, the answers are mainly linked to intervention efficacy style questions. But, in around 4-6 weeks, we’ll be rolling out medicines information. So, for a given drug we’ll allow users to easily see answers to questions about contraindications, warnings, interactions etc.
Open access. Book review. MCQs in Psychiatry for Medical Students By John Lally and John Tully. RCPsych Publications, 2016, £18.00 (£16.20 for College members), pb, 224 pp. ISBN: 9781909726482
Love them or loathe them, most medical student written examinations now take the form of multiple choice questions (MCQs). Some medical educators dislike this assessment style, suggesting it encourages students to learn isolated facts in a superficial way. Yet, undeniably, MCQs provide an objective, time-efficient manner of evaluation. To read a copy of the book in this review, please contact the library
Reading and appreciating medical literature is an important aspect of continuing medical education.1 Residents need to learn this important aspect during their training period.2–4 Evidence-based medicine involves updating, critiquing and using the evidence for patient care. It is the explicit use of the best available evidence combined with intuition of the clinician and the intentions of patients in a given clinical situation.5 To practice evidence-based medicine, it is important to analyse the literature critically. Journal club is an effective way to teach critical appraisal skills to residents.6 Use of journal clubs to impart training in evidence-based medicine has been demonstrated by various studies and also been shown to improve clinical care........To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Gives people the chance to “loan out” the expertise of others by talking to “human books” about their experiences.
Doctors and ‘experts by experience’ will also give talks, while local organisations will hold stalls showcasing the support which they offer.
Throughout this year’s conference, there was heavy emphasis on open practice, student-led design of teaching interactions, and collaboration between and co-authoring by practitioners and participants.
Cognitive models of insomnia consistently suggest that negative expectations regarding the consequences of poor sleep contribute to the maintenance of insomnia. To date, however, no research has sought to determine whether insomnia is indeed characterised by such a negative sleep-related expectancy bias, using objective cognitive assessment tasks which are more immune to response biases than questionnaire assessments. Therefore, the current study employed a reaction-time task assessing biased expectations among a group with clinically significant insomnia symptoms (n = 30) and a low insomnia symptoms group (n = 40). Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Editorial about case studies in evidence based librarianship, looking at value of case studies and what makes a good case study.
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Using my clinical academic knowledge and understanding of dementia, with the library team provided the underpinning research based framework; we were able to highlight skills and understanding to enhance care, and support patients and staff in a more person centred approach.
dementia 3Our dementia volunteers all receive dementia care as part of their corporate training, and attend additional presentations about meal time support. There are opportunities to attend further sessions such as Sage and Thyme and Dignity Awareness. Evidence of their visits and input is recorded to capture the difference it is making and to be able to report back to Carers and Patients’ Experience (CAPE) board.
From 1 May 2017, a new mental health and wellbeing service for young people has been introduced across Telford and Wrekin and Shropshire.
The aim of the service is to provide a much wider choice of care options for those aged 0-25 and their families and carers, and to help them engage with local services and transform their emotional health and well-being.
Cochrane is one of the most popular resources in Trip.
Historically we have received automated updates from Wiley with the intention of ensuring we were always up to date with the records. It has come to our attention that there had been some problems with the process and that we were missing a number of key Cochrane reviews.
Before I was a medical librarian my library had been tracking every article, book, and book chapter that somebody within the institution authored. It used to be a list that was published then it evolved into a database that was on a citation management software.
Staff Publications can now be found by searching our book catalogue www.shelib.nhs.uk . We are working backwards so currently all publications from 2016 and the first quarter of 2017 are included in the catalogue with links to their abstracts in Pubmed.
Looking for systematic reviews, I needed a systematic review filter for ProQuest PsycInfo.
I had searched other databases for the same project and used SIGN's filters, but SIGN did not have one for PsycInfo and the other PsycInfo ones I had found were for other interfaces.
In most instances, inductions are the first time that users will be introduced to health library services. The time available in which to deliver library orientation sessions within a broader, Trust induction programme is often limited, and this can present challenges for health librarians. Inductions are a great marketing tool, and it is important that induction sessions make the right impact. Within a brief window of opportunity, the health librarian must impart key information to the inductees whilst ensuring the session is relevant and memorable. In this article, guest writer Nicola Healey, Library Manager of North Somerset Healthcare Library, discusses the range of approaches she and her colleagues have explored in delivering library inductions, explaining what worked, what did not and what areas still remain for development.
Knowledge management has seen something of a resurgence in attention amongst health librarians recently. Of course it has never ceased to exist, but now many library staff are becoming more involved in organisational knowledge management, and positioning themselves as key players in the sphere. No single model of knowledge management is proliferating, but approaches that best fit the organisation's size, structure and culture, and a blending of evidence based practice and knowledge sharing. Whatever it is called and whatever models are used, it's clear that for librarians and information professionals, the importance of putting knowledge and evidence into practice, sharing knowledge well and capturing it effectively, are still what we will continue to do.
Research is firmly embedded in the NHS Mandate 2017 – 2018 (see Objective 8 “To support research, innovation and growth”). It probably didn’t need a directive to point out the importance of research to patients and patient care. Research is also core business for NHS libraries. This is a reflection on how we can make research a distinctive part of our service offering. It’s based on personal experience and best practice using the tried and tested ‘n things’ model.
The green evidence updates for healthcare professionals folders have been updated across all wards and clinical areas this week. It is also accessible on the U: drive under groups.
The folders include articles on a range of topics such as 6Cs, Preventing Falls, Nutrition and Hydration, Pressure Ulcers etc to keep you up-to-date. Take a look when you have a minute.
This month’s mobile and app news in brief takes a look at AI, patient controlled records, and explores various health app comparison sites – an area NHS England is also getting into with its recently launched App Library.
Our popular people performance management toolkit has been refreshed to include links to new guidance and useful resources.
People performance management matters. How well organisations do it can make a big difference to how staff feel about their job and impact on the quality of patient care delivered.
The toolkit encourages NHS managers to make time to talk about performance with staff.
One category on the Trip Database is ‘ongoing systematic reviews’. This content is taken from the PROSPERO database of ongoing systematic reviews. If you’re not familiar with PROSPERO this is how the site describes itself
The 2017 virtual issue of the Health Information and Libraries Journal (HILJ) is published to link to the 12th International Congress on Medical Librarianship and the 2017 EAHIL Workshop taking place in Dublin, Ireland on 12–16 June 2017. The conference title is Diversity in Practice: integrating, inspiring and innovative and it is exploring how health science librarianship, in all its diversity, is integrating, inspiring and innovating practice. These themes have been used to compile this virtual issue, which contains published articles selected from HILJ from the June 2014 issue through to September 2016. The virtual issue mirrors the format of a regular issue of HILJ, namely a review article, six original articles and our three regular features: ‘Dissertations into Practice’, ‘International Perspectives and Initiatives’ and ‘Teaching and Learning in Action’. All articles included in this virtual issue are available free online.
Results: Our results revealed that the Internet indeed constitutes a source of information for people searching the topic of ADHD, and that they search for information mostly about ADHD symptoms. Furthermore, individuals personally affected by the disorder made 2.0 more questions about ADHD compared with others. Questions begin when children reach 2 years of age, with an average age of 5.1 years. Most of the websites searched were not specifically related to ADHD and the timing of searches as well as the query content were different among those prediagnosis compared with postdiagnosis.
This new approach to leadership focuses on how students can develop leadership skills right from the start of their nursing programme through to transitioning to their first role. The book first takes students through the underpinning knowledge and theory and then through practical skills to help them understand all aspects of leadership and how it is a key component of providing quality care to patients in a range of environments and settings. Real stories from nursing leaders, practitioners and students are included to inspire students and show them how they can impact positively on practice, whatever level they are working at.
From September the newly revamped NHS Choices will become NHS.uk and the gateway to order repeat prescriptions, book appointments, register for a GP and find a pharmacy.
By the same date NHS.uk is also due to become the route for individuals to be able to access their GP records.
Turning your raw search results into a narrative report – one that enables your enquirer to reach a decision, make a recommendation or take action – is becoming the stock in trade of information professionals in a growing number of fields, including government, health services and law.
In this second in a series of two blog posts to mark the publication of the 7th edition of Successful Enquiry Answering Every Time, author Tim Buckley Owen reveals the benefits of using strategic reading techniques to draft reports and briefings.
#FactsMatter will launch on the 1st May and run concurrently with the 2017 General Election campaign. Throughout the campaign, CILIP will call on politicians and public figures to promote the need for evidence-based decision-making as a foundation of a strong, inclusive and democratic society.
The Knowledge and Legal Advice Centre (KnowLa) was set up following a review of the Trust’s legal services and went live earlier this month. The outcome of that review identified that there was an inconsistent approach to the way in which the Trust sought legal advice and how this information was then utilised and shared within the organisation.
The Trust originally envisaged that the system would just capture the advice received from solicitors, however whilst preparing for a CQC visit it became clear that there was the potential to create a system that would also capture knowledge and advice from the Trust’s internal specialists too.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the Trust have teamed up with the charity Rethink to run a book group for young people.
But this is a book group with a difference – as we will try to get the author to come along too to talk about the book with you!We can provide copies of the book. All you have to do is read it and come along to the book group to share your thoughts.
The book group is a fun way to meet new people, talk about issues raised in the book and hear what others thought.It’s OK to have a different view to everyone else. In fact, it makes it more interesting when a book sparks lots of different responses!
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Staff at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) are carrying out cutting edge research using a groundbreaking “super” database with access to millions of pieces of data.
The Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) system contains anonymous information about thousands of patients, including from other mental health trusts, which can now be analysed on a mass scale for large research projects that would previously have been impossible.
This study aimed to acquire knowledge about the factors affecting smartphone adoption for accessing information in medical settings in Iranian Hospitals.
New model for planning and structuring a training session, placing emphasis on the importance of doing. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Main Results – Overall, e-books purchased in packages had a 50% use rate and an average cost per use of $3.39, e-books purchased through firm orders had a 52% use rate and an average cost per use of $22.21, and e-books purchased through demand driven acquisitions had an average cost per use of $8.88 and 13.9 average uses per title. Package purchasing was cost effective for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) materials and medicine (MED) materials. Demand driven acquisition was a particularly good strategy for humanities and social sciences (HSS) titles.
Conclusion – This library’s expanded embedded library services led to an increased frequency of reference interactions, instruction opportunities, and opportunities for new collaborative and integrative activities between the liaison librarian and their subject area.
Conclusion – The roles of information professionals are continually changing, both in practice and in description. In particular, information professionals expanded their roles in teaching during the review period, shedding light on institutional and professional priorities.
NHS England has announced new funding for seven mental health trusts to enable these organisations to pioneer world-class, digital services to improve care for patients experiencing mental health issues.
This will include, for the first time, all key professionals involved in a patient’s care having access to real-time records – from triage and initial assessment, through to admissions or referrals, as well as transfer between services and follow up care.
The trusts will also develop remote, mobile and assistive technologies to empower patients to manage their conditions and enable family and carers to provide the best possible support.
This article is the first in a new series in this regular feature. The intention of the series is to look at important global developments in health science libraries. Librarians will be invited to share with HILJ readers key initiatives in their country or region. These articles should serve as a road map, describing the key changes in the field and exploring factors driving these changes. We initiate this series with an article by three Australian librarians who use research findings to depict the evolving professional landscape in their country. The starting point of their analysis is a report completed in 2011 which looked into likely future workforce and education requirements for health library professionals.