Following improved access and optimisation of the website, the NICE guidance app will no longer be available for download with plans to phase it out by January 2019.
We’ve created a new collection at the Health Library called Patient Voices. Here you can read stories from the patient perspective of how they live with, cope and manage their and their family’s healthcare situations.
Librarians and information specialists are often involved in the process of preparing and completing systematic reviews (SRs), where one of their main tasks is to identify relevant references to include in the review. Although several recommendations for the process of searching have been published, none describe the development of a systematic search strategy from start to finish. Open Access Article
This review aimed to determine if the use of the patient, intervention, comparison, outcome (PICO) model as a search strategy tool affects the quality of a literature search. Open Access Article
This study recommends the top 4 websites on perinatal anxiety for health care professionals and users. There is a need for websites to be developed that provide accurate, evidence-based information that women can relate to with quality support resources. Furthermore, these sites should be easy to use and readable
However, Article 11 could change that principle and require online services to strike commercial deals with publishers to show hyperlinks and short snippets of news. This means that search engines, news aggregators, apps, and platforms would have to put commercial licences in place, and make decisions about which content to include on the basis of those licensing agreements and which to leave out.
Two years of investment and hard work come to fruition next week when a new library opens its doors.
The city centre library on the ground floor of the former St Mary’s Church, Lichfield, will welcome the public from 9am on Monday, December 17th.
It is the culmination of a £1.4m investment over two years which also sees a tourist information centre installed on the ground floor and a versatile venue with gallery, heritage and performance space on the first floor, along with a history access point for digitised archive collections.
We’ve put together a reading list of useful material such as books, journal articles, educational board games, and websites to help you meet the requirements of each of the 15 areas.
Open access. As mental healthcare expands to smartphone apps and other technologies that may offer therapeutic interventions without a therapist involved, it is important to assess the impact of non-traditional therapeutic relationships.
Successful applicants have been named to take on the management and day-to-day running of five more Staffordshire libraries.
Contracts have been offered to a parish council, local community group, business enterprise organisation and two Rotary Clubs to take on the daily management and delivery of Staffordshire County Council’s libraries at Cheadle, Cheslyn Hay, Clayton, Eccleshall and Penkridge.
A wide range of themes are covered in the shared memory bags collection. The new bags cover themes including Countryside, Family Life, In the Garden and Funny Old World.
Shropshire Libraries worked with local partners to produce the latest bags. The Diocese of Lichfield’s Dementia Churches programme contributed knowledge, practical help and objects to the faith-based bag ‘Strength for the Journey.’ In Oswestry, two Welsh-speaking community groups provided funding for the bilingual ‘Land of My Fathers’ memory bag.
The current systematic review system suits lots of people and any large change would be like turkeys voting for Christmas! One thing I’m fairly certain of is that we’ll look back at the way we do evidence synthesis and have regrets! We’ll certainly regret not spending more effort understanding the evidence base for evidence synthesis.
The 5th annual international User Experience in Libraries conference, or UXLibsV, will take place at Royal Holloway, University of London, on 17-19 June 2019. This year’s theme is ‘From Research to Design’ (see below for more details).
Items include: increasing BME representation at senior level in NHS; improving mentorship at Combined - case study; Together we're better - organisational development and leadership factsheet from Staffs and Stoke on Trent STP; voices of [quiet] nursing students; teen health information literacy, empowerment and leadership programme in US; attachment and leadership; managing care errors in the wards; influence of change-oriented leadership on work performance and job satisfaction in hospitals; people with autism in the workplace; reducing turnover and improving retention of early career nurses;
Our Dataset Search tool helps people find data sources wherever they’re hosted, as long as the data is described in a way that search engines can locate. Since the tool launched a few months ago, we’ve seen the number of unique datasets on the platform double to 10 million, including contributions from the U.S. National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Federal Reserve, the European Data Portal, the World Bank and government portals from every continent.
European Psychologist Vol. 24, Iss. 1, (2019): 68-81. DOI:10.1027/1016-9040/a000350
The objective of this paper is to synthesize and update findings from systematic review on health literacy and health outcomes among patients with long-term conditions, and extend the review to the digital domain. Health outcomes include clinical outcomes, processes of care, and health service use.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The authors developed a validated geographic search filter to retrieve research about the United Kingdom (UK) from OVID Embase. It was created to be used alongside their previously published OVID MEDLINE UK filter in systematic literature searches for context‐sensitive topics.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Conclusions: Serious gaming/gamification appears to be at least as effective as controls, and in many studies, more effective for improving knowledge, skills, and satisfaction. However, the available evidence is mostly of low quality and calls for further rigorous, theory-driven research
People will be able to get up-close with Staffordshire’s extensive archives collections in a single, modern centre, if a revised bid for funding submitted to The National Lottery Heritage Fund is successful.
Revised plans for the Staffordshire History Centre project would see a new extension to Staffordshire Record Office on Eastgate Street in Stafford bringing together three separate collections and services.
The European RHAPSODY project sought to develop and test an online information and support programme for caregivers of individuals diagnosed with young‐onset dementia. The objectives were to assess user acceptability and satisfaction with the programme, and to test outcome measures for a larger effectiveness study.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Rare disease patients find independent health information seeking necessary due to the general lack of knowledge on rare diseases and inadequate information provision by health care professionals.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Letter. Dr Launer provides significant insight into the challenges faced by doctors in his article ‘Managing the threat to reflective writing’.1 In particular, attention has been focused on the approaches to sustain reflective practice in postgraduate education.
As a junior doctor, I volunteered to become a reflective writing tutor for medical students in first year clinical training. Students were given constructive guidance for these assignments, including examples of the different models used in reflective practice; the Gibbs’ cycle (description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusions and actions) was highlighted as an exemplar framework.2 My task was then to provide feedback to students on reflective writing pieces through the year and award an overall score. But can we—or should we—grade reflective writing? . To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The presentations from the event, where available, are below.
Nancy Kline Round and Shared Developments (updated 18 July 2019) - Vicky Bramwell and Kieron Lamb
Northern Lights - Andrew Craig
LIHNN AGM - Kieron Lamb
Treasurers report
Group updates
Cheshire and Merseyside
Clinical Librarians and Trainers
Greater Manchester
Mental Health Libraries
Northern Lights Newsletter
PANDDA Group
It’s Great Up North - LIHNN Winners
Best 3 Minutes of Mayhem Winner – Julie Potter
Best Session Winner - Sinead English
PubMed recently announced that they are retiring LinkOut and urged libraries to sign up for their Outside Tool instead. LinkOut made it fairly easy for NHS libraries to get their resources into PubMed but Outside Tool is a bit trickier.
We’ve had a really interesting problem, one I’m at a loss to answer…
The user was looking for articles on ‘lead’ (the metal) and was clearly getting lots of noise from articles that use the not metal version of the term, such as:
Lead-I ECG devices for detecting sym….
…Bone Loss and Leads to Faster…
At Leeds Libraries for Health partnership ten of us deliver a joint training programme. We each have our own ways of training people and we wanted to explore this so that we could learn from each other. We chose to start by looking at how we teach searching the healthcare databases (HDAS) as this is something we all teach and there were some concepts that we wanted to look at different ways of teaching (e.g. the thesaurus).
This week we're launching six new media literacy activities for Be Internet Awesome, designed to help kids analyze and evaluate media as they navigate the internet.
It sets out:
common expectations for reflective practitioners
how reflection can be more effective, and less of a tick box exercise
how to develop multi professional teams of reflective practitioners.
The technology will help patients, especially the elderly, blind and those who cannot access the internet through traditional means, to get professional, NHS-verified health information in seconds, through simple voice commands.
This article is part of the Catalogue of Bias series. We present a description of verification bias, and outline its potential impact on research studies and the preventive steps to minimise its risk. We also present teaching slides in the online supplementary file.
To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
"Reading tells us about other lives that we didn’t even know to consider. Books can explain humanness to us, better and differently. This helps, I think, when we’re at work, under pressure, and without a clear solution to problems, which is often.... it should be a joy. Detective novels, travel and exploration, literary or science fiction—we can learn from them all."
To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford has developed a catalogue of sources of bias that may affect health care evidence, and may need to be taken into account when performing a critical appraisal on a published piece of research.
Shropshire Libraries are proud to launch Autism-Friendly Libraries, to celebrate World Autism Awareness Week (26 March 2018 – 2 April 2018). With the use of the Autism-Friendly Libraries toolkit which was developed by Dimensions, a social care organisation, and the Association of Senior Children and Educational Librarians (ASCEL), staff have been trained to be aware of the issues that may become barriers to the use of our libraries by those with autism.
Network meta-analyses synthesise networks of direct and indirect comparisons of interventions, and enable researchers to simultaneously assess the effects of more than two interventions for the same condition....Guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Cochrane Collaboration typically prefer direct evidence from randomised clinical trials and conventional meta-analyses to indirect evidence. However, the WHO have recently begun using network meta-analyses to inform clinical guidelines...and some argue that the methodology should represent the highest level of evidence for instructing clinical decision-making.
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The potential of smartphone apps to improve quality and increase access to mental health care is increasingly clear. Yet even in the current global mental health crisis, real-world uptake of smartphone apps by clinics or consumers remains low. To understand this dichotomy, this paper reviews current challenges surrounding user engagement with mental health smartphone apps. While smartphone engagement metrics and reporting remains heterogeneous in the literature, focusing on themes offers a framework to identify underlying trends. These themes suggest that apps are not designed with service users in mind, do not solve problems users care most about, do not respect privacy, are not seen as trustworthy and are unhelpful in emergencies. Respecting these current issues surrounding mental health app engagement, we propose several solutions and highlight successful examples of mental health apps with high engagement. Further research is necessary to better characterise engagement with mental health apps and identify best practices for design, testing and implementation.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
London’s Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust has created the post of clinical professor to help nurses develop research skills
‘Undertaking research is an area that we don’t develop during our clinical careers – and that’s to the huge detriment of ourselves and our profession,’ argues the new clinical professor in nursing at London’s Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Fiona Nolan. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
The information contained in these documents has been developed in conjunction with public health colleagues (who have started to use the Framework) to support others in using the PHSKF. It is envisaged that these tools will support individual workers and teams; employers; and education providers; assisting colleagues in personal, career, or workforce development.
The second annual report combining data and knowledge with information from other sources to give a broad picture of the health of people in England in 2018.
Book review.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details. To read a copy of the book in this review, please contact the library
Developmental Psychology Vol. 54, Iss. 10, (Oct 2018): 1868-1880. DOI:10.1037/dev0000574
Decades of research on the effects of media violence have examined associations between viewing aggressive material in the media and aggression and prosocial behavior. However, the existing longitudinal studies have tended to exclusively examine aggression and prosocial behavior as outcomes, with a limited range of potential mediators. The current study examines associations between playing violent video games and externalizing and prosocial behavior over a 5-year period across adolescence. Additionally, the study examines potential mediators of these associations, including empathic concern, benevolence, and self-regulation.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
CPFT specialist clinical psychologist Dr Kate Nurser has conducted the first UK research on how storytelling can help the recovery of people who have experienced mental health challenges.
Over the last 12 months library staff have been working with link leads and nurse links to standardise the STAR link folders located on the wards. The link topics we have completed so far are: Safeguarding and Dementia, Nutrition, Pain, Infection Control, Resus and Medicines Management. We aim to work with link leads to get the remaining topics completed over the next few months. We also plan to start a 12 month review of the previously completed topics as well as helping to improve what is available online.
MeSH (full name Medical Subject Headings) is a controlled vocabulary that is widely used in medical information systems. We’re actively exploring using it in Trip as we believe it can significantly improve our search results.
As far as I can tell it will improve them for two main reasons. Firstly, it’ll improve our synonyms function as MeSH is great for that. Secondly, and this is the most exciting aspect for me, is that MeSH is hierarchical. If you do a search for arrhythmia that maps to the MeSH concept of Arrhythmias, Cardiac:
Maureen Dobbins is the Scientific Director at the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools and last year gave a webinar on the ‘Rapid Review Guidebook’, here it is
This paper outlines the inter‐professional collaboration of the authors, a PhD student, his supervisor and an information professional, to systematically search the literature for an ill‐defined concept.
The current trends influencing change in health information and library settings are presenting some exciting new opportunities for health information specialists. Increasingly, knowledge specialists are playing a pivotal role in the effective mobilisation of knowledge and evidence. The focus for our profession will continue to be on demonstrating the value and impact of our services, but a shift in expectations about how those services are delivered will need to be underpinned by new tools and skill sets. These issues are reflected in the themes of the Health Libraries Group 2018 conference, and in conjunction with the event, this virtual issue draws together a collection of articles reflecting those themes.
The integration of evidence‐based practice (EBP) into speech and language therapy (SLT) curricula has been increasingly encouraged in recent years.
The study aimed to evaluate whether an educational module on EBP for undergraduate SLT students can improve their EBP competencies.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Open access. Librarians in Sweden are facing huge challenges in meeting the demands of their organisations and users. This article looks at four key areas: coping with open science/open access initiatives; increasing demands from researchers for support doing systematic reviews; understanding user experiences in Swedish health science libraries; and the consequences of expanding roles for recruitment and continuing professional development. With regard to changing roles, there is an increasing shift from the generalist towards the expert role. The authors raise the issue as to how to prepare those new to the profession to the changing environment of health science libraries.
The discourse in healthcare Knowledge Mobilisation (KMb) literature has shifted from simple, linear models of research knowledge production and action to more iterative and complex models. These aim to blend multiple stakeholders’ knowledge with research knowledge to address the research-practice gap. It has been suggested there is no ‘magic bullet’, but that a promising approach to take is knowledge co-creation in healthcare, particularly if a number of principles are applied. These include systems thinking, positioning research as a creative enterprise with human experience at its core, and paying attention to process within the partnership. This discussion paper builds on this proposition and extends it beyond knowledge co-creation to co-designing evidenced based interventions and implementing them.
The purpose of this update is to provide an overview of the breadth of research studies published from April 2017 to April 2018 on mobile-based interventions for mental health, with a special emphasis on smartphone-based interventions.. MPFT staff can use the OVID link, or you can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Abbreviated literature searches were viable alternatives to comprehensive searches: a meta-epidemiological study. Nussbaumer-Streit B. et al. J Clin Epidemiol. 2018 Jun 1
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.