Free trial to Clinical Evidence from the BMJ

 

Clinical Evidence is a point-of-care resource provided by BMJ. It is an international source of the best available evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions, similar to UpToDate and DynaMed.
 

It includes evidence-based research from more than 10,000 peer-reviewed references and covers over 640 clinical questions and 3000 interventions. 
 

We have a FREE TRIAL to this resource until the end of October 2014. You can access it here:

www.clinicalevidence.bmj.com
 

No password is needed in the Trust! However, you will need an Athens account to access it from home. Contact the library at library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk if you don’t have an Athens account.
 

We are looking at Clinical Evidence as an alternative to UpToDate and DynaMed. Please try out this new resource and let us know what you think.

 

NEW: A network for students interested in evidence-based healthcare

You might be interested to take a look at this site
http://www.students4bestevidence.net/ 
Aimed at helping students understand fully evidence-based practice.  

Students 4 Best Evidence is a Partner of Sense about Science’s Ask for Evidence campaign. The Ask for Evidence campaign’s aim is to debunk the health claims you see everyday and ask whether they are based on reliable evidence and scientific rigour

August 2014

Summer is here (supposedly...!) And so is the latest edition of the library's newsletter. We are publishing it a little later than usual, so that we can welcome the new doctors who have arrived in the Trust, as well as other new staff members. Hello to you all!

The photo this month was taken by an ex-member of library staff, and photographer extraordinaire, James Allen. Thanks to James, as always, for letting us use his beautiful images for our blog.

The library newsletter is sent out four times a year to current members of the library and anyone else who would like to keep up to date with the latest developments in healthcare. We publish posts whenever we have news, so it's worth checking our blog from time to time.

Our first 10 stamps person



Well done Melissa!

 Our Library Loyalty Bookmark rewards our loyal users. Borrow a book and have your bookmark stamped.  After 5 stamps you'll receive a sweet.  When you have 10 stamps you can enjoy a drink and a biscuit from the library.

Our first loyal user to get a cup of tea and a biscuit is Melissa Hanton, a visiting medical student from Canada.  As well as borrowing medical texts, Melissa was an avid fiction reader and had read much of our crime fiction in her 6 months stay at Stockport.

Top Reader

Our top reader since April is Teresa Cuthbert who is a University of Manchester midwifery student.  Congratulations to her!  She will receive a very nice hessian bag.  Teresa has been reading a lot around nursing research.

So these recent additions would be of interest to her and others studying nursing...

Open Day at Stepping Hill

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust had an open day on Saturday 19th July. The theme of the day was 'Back to the Future' and the library had its own stand called 'The Information Portal'.

We ran a 'Past to Present' quiz, matching the photos with the year - apparently it was very tricky! There was also a 'Time Machine', which was a reminiscence box full of books and photos of times past. This was kindly loaned to us by Stockport Public Libraries. Children could colour an array of body parts (due to a 'Teleporter Malfunction') and play some health-related computer games. Whack-a-Bone and Poke-a-Muscle were particularly popular, although some adults preferred the Healthy Eating Self-Assessment or Health Talk Online.

However, the star attraction was a skull which had been printed out on a 3D printer. We had an accompanying display about 3D printing, including a video of a patient whose titanium hip joint was printed on a 3D printer. If you would like to take a look at our skull, it has now taken up residence in the library in Pinewood House! 

Overall, the day proved a great success for the Trust with several hundred people dropping in to take a look at the attractions. For us it was a chance to explain to members of the public how the library can contribute to medical services. There was the additional benefit of a steady stream of colleagues passing through as they took a break from their own open day duties.

New books in the library

Some brand new books have just arrived in the library, which should prove popular!

If you are a doctor and your revalidation is approaching, you should definitely take a look at 'How to get through revalidation: Making the process easy'.

Here are some other titles just in:

Apley and Solomon's Concise System of Orthopaedics and Trauma

The doctor's communication handbook

Interprofessional working in health and social care : professional perspectives

Key concepts in mental health

Physics, pharmacology and physiology for anaesthetists : key concepts for the FRCA

Safer moving and handling in the perioperative environment

Older people : issues and innovations in care

Health promotion and public health for nursing students

Physiotherapy in respiratory and cardiac care : an evidence-based approach

Making sense of the ECG : a hands-on guide

ABC of dementia

You can take a look at the list of new books by checking the library catalogue on the intranet home page (under My Applications, before logging in). Just click on 'What's New'

Resources for staff working with dementia patients

Around the world, 44 million people are living with dementia, and this number is predicted to nearly double every 20 years, with a new case diagnosed every 4 seconds* .

If you work with patients with dementia, or if you know of someone with dementia, you'll find the dementia resources in your library helpful. We have a number of books covering various aspects of the condition - ranging from living well after diagnosis and coping with early onset dementia, to guides for carers and stories of experiences from family members of dementia sufferers. Trust staff can borrow these books and show them to patients' families if they are looking for further information and advice. All the books in the library at Pinewood House are also available in Stockport Libraries, so family members can borrow these titles - and many more - from their local public library.

The staff at Stockport Libraries also offer reminiscence sessions so if you would like them to come to your department, please contact the library at Stepping Hill on 0161 419 4690 for further details.

* Figures taken from an editorial 'Addressing global dementia' in the Lancet, volume 383, issue 9936, page 2185 (28th June 2014).

Library training sessions for the autumn

Are you starting a course soon? Is your department planning an audit?

If so, why not attend a library session to brush up on your literature searching skills...

Here are the dates of our courses for the next few months:



Wednesday 10 September 2014 - Introduction to Literature Searching 1.30 - 3.30pm

Friday 19 September 2014 - In-depth Literature Searching 9am - 12pm

Wednesday 24 September 2014 - Writing patient information leaflets 9 - 11.30am

Monday 06 October 2014 - Using PubMed Effectively 1.30 - 4pm

Monday 13 October 2014 - In-depth Literature Searching 1.30 - 4.30pm

Tuesday 04 November 2014 - Writing patient information leaflets 1 - 3.30pm

Monday 10 November 2014 - The Cochrane Library - an evidence based resource 2 - 5pm

Friday 14 November 2014 - Introduction to Literature Searching 9 - 11am

Friday 21 November 2014 - In-depth Literature Searching 9am - 12pm

Friday 28 November 2014 - Introduction to critical appraisal with statistics 9.30 - 11.30am



Training dates for the spring are available from the library microsite or the library's external site.

Just ring 0161 419 4690 or e-mail library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk to book a place on a course.

Oh, and did we mention that all our courses are completely free?!

Library and Knowledge Service - tracking our progress

Your Information. Our Priority.

This is at the heart of everything we do in order that you may help the Trust deliver the highest level of care.

We ensure that you can access the latest evidence-based knowledge through the library’s services and resources regardless of your location, job function or the time of day. Our services save you time and the Trust money thus helping everyone, no matter what their role, contribute to delivering safe, seamless patient-centred care to the highest standards.

Our approved annual report for 2013-14 and our strategy are available to all Trust staff either on request or via the Library Microsite on the Intranet.

You can track how we are progressing via our operational plan which is also on the Intranet and is regularly updated.  It is available on request for Trust staff.

Want to get involved?  Then contact the library manager on 0161 419 5952 or email library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk 

Changes to the journal Blood

The American Society of Hematology has changed its address for Athens access to the journal Blood.

You will now need to click on the following link: http://openathens.highwire.org/initiate-login?returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloodjournal.org%2F&subcode=ashjnls


You will be asked to type your Athens username and password, and then you will have complete fulltext access from 1946 to the current issue.

Free trial extended to more journals

Recently we told you about a free trial to the fulltext of all Springer journals until 31st October 2014. This trial, which is an NHS Pilot, has now been extended to more journal providers.

Nature, and 36 affiliated journals (such as Nature Medicine and Nature Reviews Cancer) are included.

Elsevier Science are including 147 of its Finch Medical Research titles, such as Experimental Eye Research, Research in Microbiology, the European Journal of Pharmacology, Spine Deformity, and Clinical Biochemistry.

All these journals are available with your Athens username and password. You can search for them on a list of journals here: http://www.library.nhs.uk/booksandjournals/journals/default.aspx


Furthermore, the links to fulltext articles will appear when you do a search of the healthcare databases (like Medline and CINAHL).
If you do not have an Athens account, please contact the library on 0161 419 4690.
Other journal providers are offering free fulltext as part of this trial, but access is only available from NHS computers, and not by Athens. The providers below are all included in the NHS Pilot.
The Medical Collection from Oxford University Press is offering fulltext access to 88 titles, such as Cardiovascular Research, Annals of Oncology, Occupational Medicine and International Journal for Quality in Health Care.

Twenty six Annual Reviews journals are part of the free trial, such as the Annual Review of Biochemistry, and the Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology.

The Merck Index is also included.

The NHS Pilot will run until 31st March 2015.

Practising Midwife - now available online

The library used to have a print subscription to the Practising Midwife, but this leading journal is now available electronically so you can access it from anywhere. All you need is to login with your Athens username and password here: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mesl/tpm

If you don't have an Athens account, you can register online from an NHS computer here: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/

The archives of our electronic subscription go back to 2011, but the library at Pinewood House has print copies from 2006 - 2013.

You can also request an 'etoc' from the library - an electronic table of contents. So every month we will send you the contents page of the new issue so that you can keep up to date with the latest research very easily. Just e-mail the library at library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk and let us know if you would like us to set up etocs for any other journals for you.

A guide to free images on the web

In a previous posting I have introduced you to the Wellcome Library collection.  

Wellcome images: c1890 steel arm

A Guide to Little-Known Image Collections with Millions of Free, Hi-Res Images is a useful blog which not only includes a link to the Wellcome Library collection but some more contains links to a number of other collections

It also shows you how to search on Google to only return images which are copiable.

Google’s Advanced Search form allows you to specify usage rights in your search so you can be sure to return results that match your preferred license.

Changes to the Cochrane Library

From the 28th June the Cochrane Library will have enhanced features which include

• better readability
• enhanced navigation
• improved functionality with new browser tools
• but best of all it will adapt to any device - desktop, tablet, or mobile, to give the optimal reading experience

So take a look at www.thecochranelibrary.com 

Draft Library and Knowledge Services Annual Report

We have changed the format of our annual report to make it more succinct but still reflect the service provided.  In particular, we are reporting on our performance indicators against our library standards for the first time.  If you wish to comment on the report or suggest developmental needs for the service,  you will find the report on the Library Microsite under documents.  If you are in the community and are unable to access this, then please contact Mary Hill (details in the Trust email directory).  This draft will be available until the end of June 2014.

Eight million articles and book chapters freely available online!

Leading medical publisher Springer is making its Hospital and Health collection available to NHS staff until the end of October 2014. The collection comprises 1800 journals and 40,000 book titles, including the just-published Classic Papers in Orthopaedics.


To see what’s available go to  http://health.springer.com/ and

• click on Sign up/Log in from the menu bar at the top right of the page

• choose Institutional/Athens login

• choose NHS from the Select your institution drop-down menu

• click on Proceed to Athens

• sign in with your OpenAthens username and password.

If you don’t have an Athens password, then contact the library at Pinewood House – telephone 0161 419 5809, e-mail library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk – for details of how to register.

April 2014



Credit Anthea Sieveking , Wellcome Images Creative Commons Licence




Welcome to our Easter edition of the Library newsletter. We're publishing a little later than usual as a lot of things have been happening in the library over the last month or so, such as our new self-service machine in the library, and a refurbishment of our office. You can read more about it in the posts below.

We've also got a post about using the Wellcome Library as a source of images, and this month's picture is taken from that website.

The library newsletter is sent out four times a year to current members of the library and anyone else who would like to keep up to date with the latest developments in healthcare. We publish posts whenever we have news, so it's worth checking our blog from time to time

Our BIG news ~ we are now self-service

You can now issue, return and renew your own books along with paying any fines!  We have already had some comments on the ease of use.

TO BORROW ITEMS

You must have your blue library card.  

Forgotten or lost it?  Ask a member of staff for help

Step 1 ~ Select what you want to borrow  
Step 2 ~ Take them to the self-service machine on the counter.  Press the screen to select you are borrowing
Step 3 ~ Put your blue library card under the scanner (as shown here), barcode side up. 
Step 4 ~ Place your books on the black pad.  It can read multiple records at once.  Each book title will appear on the screen.
Step 5 ~ Once all items have been scanned, press finish and collect your receipt containing the return 

Don't forget to ask a member of staff to stamp your loyalty book mark!

TO RETURN ITEMS
Step 1 ~ Press the screen to select you are returning
Step 2 ~ Place all items on the black pad. Check all are returned
Step 3 ~ Select to have a receipt and place your items in the box provided

If you have any fines you can pay them now!

Voila!

Medical Masterclass has a new-look website

The Royal College of Physicians has designed an all-new website for Medical Masterclass with new features and a brand-new bank of mock MRCP (UK) Part 1 and Part 2 written exam questions.

Please note that your previous exam history will be lost as a result of the changeover. However, you will be able to build up a new exam history and see how your score compares with other users.

You can try out the new features here: www.medical-masterclass.com

If you haven't used the Medical Masterclass website before, please contact the library on 0161 419 4690 for a username and password.

Case-based simulations are also available from any Trust computer - go to the Start menu, click on Trust Applications and then select Medical Masterclass. This will start 'Patient Simulator', which allows you to choose elements of a patient's history and examination. Based upon that information, you can determine a diagnosis, tests or procedures and management of the patient. No username or password required for Patient Simulator.

New charges for interlibrary loans

Unfortunately the British Library has raised its charges for articles and books. We have managed to keep our prices the same for 18 months but we have had to raise our prices for the new financial year.

The cost of requesting an article will now be £9. The cost of borrowing a book for a six-week loan will now be £12.50. If a renewal is required after this time, the charge will be £4.45.

However, the good news is that we are keeping our prices the same for articles and books from NHS libraries around the region. So if the article or book you need is available from a library in the north west, the charge will still be £1.

Clinical audit support available from NICE

Did you know that NICE guidance now comes with audit support such as clinical audit tools?

Let's take a look at the Head Injury clinical guidelines that were issued in January 2014:

http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG176

On this page on the right hand side, you'll see a menu with the headline 'Implementation tools and resources'. Below this you'll see 'Clinical audit tools'. (Some guidelines will say 'Audit support' instead, or 'Electronic audit tools').

The clinical audit tool comes with audit standards, a spreadsheet for data collection, a clinical audit report for you to complete, along with an action plan.

Not all clinical guidelines come with audit support but many do, so take a look at the NICE website and see whether the NICE guidance you're interested in has this feature.

http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/index.jsp?action=find

Library loyalty bookmark

The next time you borrow a book, pick up a special loyalty bookmark. Each time you borrow books, you can get a stamp for your bookmark. When you've collected five stamps, you can dig into the library's sweetie tin for a chocolate. When you've collected 10 stamps, the library staff will make you a cup of coffee or tea! 

Renewing and returning books don't count, and neither do multiple visits on the same day. We have already had a couple of people claim their free chocolate. Let's see who's the first person to get a free drink!

Critical Appraisal Training at Wythenshawe and Stepping Hill

The library at Wythenshawe Hospital is running a session on Critical Appraisal on Monday 28th April from 1pm to 3pm.

The training will take place in the Committee Room, Education and Research Centre.

The training session is free and Stepping Hill Hospital staff are welcome to attend.

Phone the Academy Library at Wythenshawe Hospital on 291 5780 to book a place.

Critical Appraisal training at Stepping Hill is scheduled on the following dates:


Wednesday 11th June 2-4pm

Friday 28th November 9.30 - 11.30 am


These training sessions will take place in Pinewood House and are free.

Please phone the library at Pinewood House on 419 4690 to book on either of these dates.

Guidelines in Practice - app now available

Guidelines in Practice is a resource for healthcare professionals who are interested in implementing national guidelines locally, and practising evidence based medicine.

Healthcare professionals can register online to have access to the guideline summaries and other resources:
http://www.eguidelines.co.uk/user/register/professional.php

There is now also an app available free-of-charge to all healthcare professionals who are registered with the website. To download the app, go to www.eguidelines.co.uk and follow the instructions on the homepage.

'How to read a paper' by Trisha Greenhalgh - new edition

Trisha Greenhalgh has just published a new edition of her excellent book on evidence based medicine. This book covers how to find a research article and critically appraise it.

The library has ordered two copies of this 5th edition so they will be available shortly. In the meantime, we have two hard copies of the 4th edition (published in 2010) and an e-book version.

To see the electronic version of this book, please click on the following link:

www.myilibrary.com/?ID=268650 You'll need to click on

"If you are an Athens user, please click here to access the Athens Authentication Point"

You will then need to log in using your Athens username and password. If you don't have one, you can register online from an NHS computer here: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/

Please be aware that there is only one licence for this e-book so you need to make sure you log out when you've finished, in order to allow someone else to read it.

Top library borrower this quarter

We are pleased to announce that it is one of our 'American' students who is our top borrower from Christmas to Easter.  This is the bag Melissa Hanton received, looking rather stylish with some of our new books.

Sorry gentlemen, none of you appear in our top 10 again!  

Finding it hard to return your books?

We provide a book box which allows you to return books out of library hours
Where will I find it?
It is situated by the menu board just before the staff restaurant, Stepping Hill and is now easily accessed at any time of day or night
How often is it emptied?
We empty it every working day morning and reduce any fines by 5p per item as they may have been delivered the day before.
Has the book box moved?
Yes indeed it has.  It use to be in the Internet Cafe but that has closed
Can community staff use it?
Absolutely.  We provide this service particularly for community and night staff
Does the box like the one in the picture?
It is the same make but is dark blue in colour with light writing

New books ~ Christmas to Easter

We have received 189 books since our last newsletter.  As you can imagine, we don't want to include them all so here is a brief selection showing the depth and breadth of what has been bought.  

Come across a really useful book recently?  Do email us with your suggestion provided it has been published recently.  This book was suggested by one of our users.

Law and professional issues in nursing	Griffith, Richard	2014	344.0414 GRI
Patient-centered medicine : transforming the clinical method	Stewart, Moira	2014	610.696 STE
Essential knowledge and skills for healthcare assistants	Rawles, Zoe	2014	610.73 RAW
Coaching skills : a handbook	Rogers, Jenny	2013	610.730711 ROG
Succeeding in your medical school OSCEs : an essential guide for medical students including 150 practice scenarios	Dhamija, Bhoresh	2013	610.76 DHA
Wheater's functional histology : a text and colour atlas.	Young, Barbara	2014	611.018 YOU
Handbook of contraception and sexual health	Everett, Suzanne	2014	613.94 EVE
Fundamentals of hand therapy : clinical reasoning and treatment guidelines for common diagnoses of the upper extremity	Cooper, Cynthia	2014	615.81 COO
Emergency triage : Manchester triage group	Advanced Life Support Group	2014	616.025 MAC
150 ECG problems	Hampton, John R	2013	616.1207547 HAM
Principles of pulmonary medicine	Weinberger, Steven E	2014	616.2 WEI
Problem solving in acute oncology	Marshall, Ernie	2014	616.994 MAR
Smith and Aitkenhead's textbook of anaesthesia	Aitkenhead, Alan R	2013	617.96 AIT
Contraception : a casebook from menarche to menopause	Briggs, Paula	2013	618.18 BRI
Churchill's angels	Jackson, Ruby	2013	FIC J
And still the music plays : stories from people with dementia	Stokes, Graham	2010	SH 616.831 STO

Registering for an Athens account - new address

There is a new address for registering for an Athens account. Copy and paste the following link to go directly to the online form:

https://openathens.nice.org.uk/

You can still use the alternative route via www.library.nhs.uk - just click on `Register for NHS Athens`.

You will receive your Athens username immediately. Then you need to check your e-mail account for an e-mail from Athens. Click on the link in the e-mail to create your Athens password.

NB: It is best to register from an NHS computer. If you register from home, you MUST give your work e-mail address.