Information Skills for Health

  Period blood test could offer less invasive alternative to cervical screening reported the BBC in February. This interesting and less invasive test is still undergoing research. What do you know about cervical cancer? Check these resources for an overview, key points, diagnosis, treatment options, follow-up and more. [You will need your NHS OpenAthens username to access these resources] BMJ Best Practice – Cervical cancer - Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment | BMJ Best Practice ; Cervical cancer screening - Medical information | BMJ Best Practice Clinical Key (available to UHNM only) – Cervical Cancer - ClinicalKey ; Cervical Cancer, Survivorship - ClinicalKey Clinical Knowledge Summaries – Cervical screening | Health topics A to Z | CKS | NICE Cochrane Library systematic reviews – Effects of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programmes on community rates of HPV‐related disease and harms from vaccination - Henschke, N - 2025 | Cochrane Library Patient Inf...

 Feel more confident when critically appraising articles or discussing research with your colleagues. Watch the videos from NEJM Evidence Stats Stat! series . These short, animated, easy to follow videos show you various methods used in research studies, explaining key aspects and influence on results. Learn more on propensity scores, linear regression, cluster RCTs and much more. Over 20 videos are available.   screen-shot of a selection of videos on the Stats Stat! website

 There has been some recent discussion around prostate cancer screening and whether it should be extended to a wider proportion of the populate, but… What do you know about prostate cancer? Check these resources for an overview, key points, diagnosis, treatment options, follow-up and more. [You will need your NHS OpenAthens username to access these resources] BMJ Best Practice – Prostate Cancer Clinical Key (available to UHNM only) – Prostate Cancer, Screening and Prevention Clinical Knowledge Summaries – Prostate Cancer Cochrane Library systematic reviews – How does dose‐escalated radiotherapy compare with conventional dose radiotherapy for men with localized prostate cancer? Oxford Medicine Online – Chapter 9 Prostate Cancer in Oxford Handbook of Urology Case 8 Localized Prostate Cancer in Challenging Cases in Urological Surgery Chapter 5 The European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC) in 50 studies every doctor should know: the...

  Explore NHS resources and discover the evidence you need by searching the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub. The new Hub interface helps you to get to full-text information quickly. Read our blog posts to make the most of these key features: NHS OpenAthens Login on the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub BMJ Best Practice filter on the NHS Knowledge & Library Hub Link to databases on the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub Use natural language on the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub Full-text Options on the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub Go to your Hub Start searching now - go to our NHS K&L Hub page – make sure you select the correct instance of the Hub for the organisation you work for. More help For more help using the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: Complete our etutorial Knowledge and Library Hub tutorial Arrange a training session with our training team Go to our Knowledge and Library Hub help page Contact the Health Library

  Easily link to full-text articles from your search results list on the NHS Knowledge & Library Hub. There are a range of options that may be presented to you depending on the availability of the article.   Make sure you have logged in to NHS OpenAthens to ensure all your resources are included in the search results. Our blog post NHS OpenAthens Login on the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub shows you how. In the new interface of the K&L Hub you may be presented with a range of access options. They are listed below. Note that the options presented will depend on the availability of the article as open access or subscribed, and whether it is available within the ebsco databases or not. You will always get the option to request an item if you need to request an inter-library loan or just in case you have problems reaching the full-text. LibKey Instant PDF - takes you direct to the article in PDF format PDF Full Text - takes you direct to the article in PDF format, ...

  Do you feel confident searching databases? Do you struggle to find precise search terms and combinations? Don’t worry! You can use natural language to search on the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub. You can run simple searches on the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub to explore a wide range of resources. What do I mean by natural language? Well, it’s using sentences and words that you use in conversation, as if you were talking to a colleague. How can you do it? Go to the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub. Enter your question in the search box – just like you were asking a colleague. Tick the natural language option and click search. Articles matching your question will be listed in the results list. Want to know what it searches for? Just click the option Show refined query and a pop-up box will show you how the Hub has constructed the query to run against the resources. Go to your Hub Start searching now - go to our NHS K&L Hub page – make sure you select the corr...

  Although the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is great for running simple searches, you might want to complete more detailed searching on a database. You can link to the databases straight from the Hub. Simply search for the database name and you’ll get an information card for that database, with a link straight to the database, saving you lots of time. Typical databases to look for are Cinahl, Medline, Emcare and Embase. Or you could login to the Ovid platform to search more databases. screenshot showing the information card for Ovid databases as a featured result Go to your Hub Start searching now - go to our NHS K&L Hub page – make sure you select the correct instance of the Hub for the organisation you work for. Log in to OpenAthens to make sure you easily link to resources – see our blog post . More help For more help using the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: Complete our etutorial Knowledge and Library Hub tutorial Arrange a training session with our training tea...