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Resources on Strep A from UpToDate

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The UpToDate point of care tool has a range of regularly updated articles summarising the evidence around Strep A.

These are being made available to anyone that needs access, without having to login to UpToDate.

All staff at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust have access to UpToDate, both on and off-site of via the mobile app.

Quick links to Strep A information

As with all UpToDate clinical content the topics are written by experts in their field and the content is reviewed and updated as new evidence becomes available to support clinicians in reaching a diagnosis and treating patients who present with suspected Strep A quickly and effectively.

BMJ Best Practice Comorbidities Manager

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Access to BMJ Best Practice has been extended to include the Comorbidities Manager. In the UK, one in three adults suffer from multiple chronic conditions and most patients in the acute setting have more than one medical condition.

The BMJ Best Practice Comorbidities Manager supports the management of the whole patient by including guidance on the treatment of a patient’s acute condition alongside their pre-existing comorbidities.

Available on desktop or app, NHS staff and learners in England can use BMJ Best Practice for free via an NHS OpenAthens account.

Improve your wellbeing and resilience with a new collection of e-books

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A new collection of 21 carefully selected e-books has been made available to support the wellbeing and resilience of NHS staff and students. These are all available to read online with a free NHS OpenAthens account.

In addition to these new e-books, you'll find many books to support your wellbeing in our Healthy Lives collections in both our libraries, so do come along a have a browse. We also have jigsaws, colouring books, comfortable seating, and hot drinks, so come along and take some time to look after yourself.

And Breathe
Dennis, S. 2016

Anti-burnout
Drayton M. 2021

Change for the Better: Personal Development through Practical Psychotherapy
McCormick, E. W. 2017

Developing Mental Toughness
Clough, P., Strycharczyk, D. and Perry, J. 3rd ed., 2021

Developing Resilience
Neenan, M. 2nd ed., 2017

Emotional Resilience
Bharwaney, G. 2015

GP Wellbeing
Staten, A. and Lawson, E. 2017

Managing Health and Wellbeing in the Public Sector
Cooper, C. L. and Hesketh, I. 2017

Micro-resilience
St. John, B. and Haines, A. P. 2017

Mindfulness in the Workplace
Chapman-Clarke, M. A. 2016

Organised Wellbeing
Marsh, T. and Ward, L. 2nd ed., 2018

Resilience at Work
Jackson, K. 2018

Resilience in Healthcare Leadership
Belasen, A. 2021

Self-care for Allied Health Professionals
Battye, A. 2021

Self-leadership and Personal Resilience in Health and Social Care
Holroyd, J. 2015

Seven Ways to Build Resilience
Johnstone, C. 2021

Stories of Resilience in Nursing
Traynor, M. 2019

Supporting Compassionate Healthcare Practice
Ryder, E. and Chambers, C. 2018

The Compassionate Mind Approach to Difficult Emotions: Using Compassion Focused Therapy
Irons, C. 2019

The Leader's Guide to Resilience
Tang, A. 2020

Your Health at Work
Fidderman, H. and Allen, B. 2018

Making finding full-text easier

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Whether you've got the title of an article you're looking for, want to look at the latest issue of a journal, or want to be able to access full-text articles when searching the web, there are a number of ways library and knowledge services can help.

From searching within the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub, using BrowZine, using LibKey Nomad, or using Google Scholar Library Links, our short guide and video show you how to make finding full-text a bit easier.

And if there is no full-text available, it's easy to request items from the library and let us do the leg-work!

Watch the video

Make better use of evidence and knowledge with 'The Knowledge' newsletter

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Want to know how to make better use of evidence and organisational knowledge in your work? Have a look at our latest newsletter called 'The Knowledge' that looks at knowledge mobilisation.

Download the latest issue of 'The Knowledge'

The latest issue covers:

  • Using Trip Pro to locate evidence
  • Sharing knowledge with knowledge cafés and expresso cafés
  • Share your publications in the Staff Publications Hub
  • Advanced searching for articles
  • Learn how to use knowledge resources quickly with our bite-sized training videos

 

Experience of Care Week

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Experience of Care Week is an international initiative to celebrate the work that is happening across health and social care to keep improving experiences of care for patients, families, carers and staff.

Experience of Care Week runs from the 25th to the 29th April 2022, and to celebrate the library will have displays with posters, books and useful information available at both sites.

Our librarians have put together a guide with links to useful journal articles about patient experience which is available to download - Experience of care week materials or you can pick up a paper copy from the library.

Celebrate World Book Night 2022 with a free book

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Celebrate World Book Night 2022 with Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries, and collect your FREE book gift bag from Shrewsbury or Telford Health Library on Friday 29th April 2022 between 8.30 and 17.00 - while stocks last.

De-stress with a good book.  Get lost in a good murder with a free copy of 'The Dinner Guest' by B P Walter. The tragic end to an intimate dinner in an affluent West London home unearths a mesh of secrets and deception in this chilling, ingeniously plotted domestic noir.

On a similar theme, why not try your hand at our Murder Mystery Puzzle competition? You could win a book token!

World Book Night is a national celebration of reading and books which takes place in April every year.  Books are given out across the UK to enable people to re-discover the pleasure of reading.  World Book Night is run by The Reading Agency, a charity that inspires people to become confident and enthusiastic readers.

What are the benefits of reading for pleasure?

  • 19% of readers say that reading stops them from feeling lonely
  • Higher literacy skills are associated with a range of positive societal benefits, including having a stronger sense of belonging to society and being more likely to trust others.
  • Studies have found that reading for pleasure enhances empathy, understanding of the self, and the ability to understand one’s own and others’ identities
  • Regular readers for pleasure reported fewer feelings of stress and depression than non-readers, and stronger feelings of relaxation from reading than from watching television or engaging with technology intensive activities
  • Those who read for pleasure have higher levels of self-esteem and a greater ability to cope with difficult situations. Reading for pleasure is associated with better sleeping patterns
  • Adults who read for just 30 minutes a week are 20% more likely to report greater life satisfaction
  • A study of 1,136 self-reported ‘avid-readers’, indicates that shared reading experiences and recommendations supporting choice are key influences on positive attitudes towards reading

Changes to advanced searching for articles

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At the end of March 2022, the Healthcare Databases Advanced Search (HDAS) interface provided by NICE for advanced searching for articles is going to be turned off. The same quality databases will still be available however (Medline, CINAHL, EMBASE and more) but these will then be searched via their provider interfaces (EBSCO, Ovid or ProQuest).

This does mean that there are new interfaces to learn (though the principles of searching remain the same) and you may need to search across two or even three different interfaces for comprehensive coverage of a topic using different databases (for example, if you're doing a systematic review).

The good news is that for many searches, the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub provides an easy way to search for articles and grey literature across a range of databases and information sources.

For more advanced searching needs, we will be producing search guides and offering training on how to make the best use of the provider interfaces.

We already have some guides that may be helpful.

We have a guide to Searching Medline and CINAHL via EBSCO, and we also have a guide to the use of different Search Operators across a wide range of healthcare databases (including how to access the thesaurus, how to do proximity searches, and whether a databases offers Boolean operators). If you're unsure of even which database to start with, we have a rough outline of the coverage of the main healthcare databases for literature searching.

 

 

 

Using Trip Pro to locate evidence

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Trip Pro is a database that can help you locate material such as guidelines, evidence summaries, systematic reviews and much more.

The basic version of Trip can be searched by anyone, but the NHS has made the Pro version available and this offers more systematic reviews, medical images and advanced search features.

Trip Pro can be accessed on any PC within Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, and off-site access is available via an NHS OpenAthens account. When you login with NHS OpenAthens, Trip Pro will automatically provide you with links to full-text articles (where available) including those available through our journal subscriptions.

Trip offers a fairly basic interface, but you can filter results in a number of ways using the filters on the left-hand side. These include a filter for UK guidelines, making it easy to find any NICE guidance, along with guidance from Royal Colleges and other professional bodies. Trip claims to have the largest international collection of guidelines, and these can be filtered by region.

The filter for controlled trials offers an interesting feature whereby the RobotReviewer tool has been used to estimate the quality of trials as either 'high' or 'uncertain' based on the abstract, so a certain amount of critical appraisal has been carried out.

There are also filters for ongoing systematic reviews and clinical trials.

Although Trip Pro does not systematically search the journal literature, it does include a number of results classed as primary research, and these can be filtered to 'key primary research' or just 'primary research'. It's not clear how the distinction is made.

Trip offers a guide to which sources it searches.

Trip Pro searches a number of the resources that were covered by the NICE Evidence Search and is a partial replacement for it as NICE Evidence Search is closing at the end of March.

 

 

Accessing full-text is even easier in KnowledgeShare evidence updates

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There has been a change in the way full-text links in KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates are provided that should make it easier for you to access the full-text of articles you are alerted to.

Where a resource (usually a journal article) has a link that says ‘Check for full-text availability’ you'll be taken to the LibKey system. The first time you use it, you'll need to specify which organisation you work for. Once you've done that, you'll be provided with links to the full-text (if we have access) or a link to our request form (if we don’t) which will automatically populate with the resource details to make it really easy to order a copy.

You'll need an NHS OpenAthens account to view full-text articles or to order items from us.

You may also see a link to 'View article in context' and this will allow you browse the contents of the journal issue where the article is.

If you haven't already signed up, our KnowledgeShare Evidence Update service is a personalised current awareness service allowing you to receive new evidence on topics  tailored to your requirements. It covers policy documents, guidance, reports, and a range of summarised evidence, so you won’t be inundated with primary research articles, and emails are sent each fortnight.