Printing to PDF is a useful tip that can help you to save information, web pages and your work.
It can really help if you can’t print or want to print later.
A literature search was carried out to find information on the topic of repeat child protection proceedings. A scoping search was performed to gather search terms. These were used to systematically search across five databases. The citations of the documents were also hand searched in order to locate further documents. The results were collated into a report which contained full text access to the relevant documents, wherever possible.
Reports detailing the audit results for each platform have been added to the Individual Platform Feedback Reports section of the website. The table on page 6 of the reports may be particularly useful for Library staff - it gives an at-a-glance view of how well the platform met each of the criteria. We will now be encouraging platforms to look at their own report and hopefully use it to inform developments.
Public Health England (PHE) is piloting an online space on Knowledge Hub to share information about local knowledge and intelligence products and services. Our Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service (LKIS) will run the space.
Knowledge Hub gives PHE in each geographical PHE Centre location, a way to make it easier for local partners to keep up to date with the relevant health intelligence relating to their area, and to take part in discussions.
Conclusions: Results of this review contribute to the understanding of the patient-physician relationship of Internet-informed patients. Our main findings show that Internet health information seeking can improve the patient-physician relationship depending on whether the patient discusses the information with the physician and on their prior relationship. As patients have better access to health information through the Internet and expect to be more engaged in health decision making, traditional models of the patient-provider relationship and communication strategies must be revisited to adapt to this changing demographic.
Sarah Knowles explores a qualitative study of young adults' perspectives on producing and consuming user-generated content about diabetes and mental health.
Evidence updates folders for Healthcare Professionals (Nurses, HCAs and AHPs etc) have been updated across the hospital with the latest evidence for you to read.
A new campaign will remind health service leaders in England of their responsibility to ensure evidence-based practice under the Health and Social Care Act1. It highlights the beneficial outcomes when healthcare services are planned and delivered with input from dedicated health librarians and knowledge services.
Launching on 30 January, ‘A Million Decisions’ is jointly led by CILIP, the library and information association, and Health Education England (HEE), who work together to support decision-makers and those delivering health services to make good use of library and knowledge skills to meet their obligations under the Act.
The medical community disseminates information increasingly using social media. Randomised controlled trials are being conducted in this area to evaluate effectiveness of social media with mixed results so far, but more trials are likely to be published in the coming years. One recent twitter randomised control trial using Cochrane Schizophrenia Group reviews suggests that tweets increase the hits to the target web page by about threefold and time spent on the web page is also increased threefold when referrals come in via twitter. These are early findings and need further replication. Twitter appeals to professionals, entertainers and politicians among others as a means of networking with peers and connecting with the wider public. Twitter, in particular, seems to be well placed for use by the medical community and is effective in promoting messages, updating information, interacting with each other locally and internationally and more so during conferences........To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
DUDLEY and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Libraries have recently completed a year-long pilot in which iPads were lent out to staff to use as a therapeutic resource with patients on hospital wards and in the community. As part of the pilot, Library Services worked in collaboration with the Trust’s Occupational Therapy Department, who recommended apps and trialled the project in practice, providing feedback and recommendations.
Hadley Learning Community took over the running of Hadley Library at the beginning of January in a tangible example of strong partnership working.
The library is being run with the support of both the school and Hadley and Leegomery Parish Council and opens from 2.30-5.30pm from Monday to Friday and 9.30am-1pm on Saturdays.
A new, updated Shropshire Choices support finder has been published in association with Shropshire Council. It is a comprehensive guide on choosing and paying for adult care and support services in Shropshire.
Many year ago Muir Gray stated – in relation to the access to evidence – that ‘Three clicks are two clicks too many’. This statement inspired the invention of the Trip Answer Engine and we have delivered on Muir’s vision. Answers to clinical questions, quickly, with a single click!
This week's app of the week is OvidToday. Download the app to your device to get access to many of Francis Costello Library's journal subscriptions from the last six months with articles in full text. Read more to find out how:
Kick start your CPD for 2017 with the reading challenge at the Library Education and Resource Centre, anyone can get involved. Look at information to improve your work skills and relax with our leisure collection. Pick up a reading challenge form at the Library, County Hospital or print one from the news section on the UHNM intranet homepage. Fill in the blank column with what you have read and send back to us by 13th February to receive a certificate of participation.
A pioneering health and information service launched across South Staffordshire is making great strides in supporting older people to stay healthy, safe and independent in their own home.
The Care Navigation Service is delivered by Age UK South Staffordshire and South Staffordshire Community and Voluntary Action (CVA).
It is a free service helping community health teams to increase the levels of access to information and support that people who are undergoing challenges in their lives can get in the local community.
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.