Information Skills for Health

 Clinical Key training sessions from Elsevier continue this month. This time, the focus is World AIDS Day , which takes place on 1 December. The sessions will look at clinical content on the topic and how to find it quickly in Clinical Key. Note that Clinical Key is only available to our UHNM users. Dates available: November 17 – 13:00 GMT Register here for session via Teams November 18 – 08:00 GMT Register here for session via Zoom Each session will cover: What ClinicalKey is and the types of content it offers Benefits of registering: 24/7 access, downloads , alerts and more A live demonstration of efficient searching and navigation Using the ClinicalKey mobile app (iOS and Android) Additional resources: tutorials and support materials For more help using Clinical Key: Try our tutorial Get started with Clinical Key Book a training session with our librarian

 BMJ Best Practice is an evidence-based, clinical decision support tool which helps you to make confident decisions on treatments of your patients. Information includes best practice, guidelines and recommendations relating to theory, diagnosis, treatment, management and follow-up to a wide range of diseases, conditions and symptoms. Content is regularly updated and always referenced. Learn more about this essential resource by completing our tutorial Using BMJ Best Practice . You'll learn: How to access BMJ Best Practice How to search for evidence on conditions and diseases How to get evidence on the go with the BMJ Best Practice app

  The British Journal of Surgery is a surgical specialist journal, publishing a wide range of articles and research across many specialties. What articles does it publish? Here are some articles from a recent issue : Beyond SANO: the future of active surveillance for oesophageal cancer p. znag066 Wang, Jun; Liang, Fei; Pang, Qingsong; … Hui, Zhouguang The morbidity of oesophagectomy and its impact on patient’s quality of life stimulated the search for organ preservation strategies for oesophageal cancer. The Surgery As Needed for Oesophageal cancer (SANO) trial is a multicentre, stepped-wedge, non-inferiority cluster-randomized trial comparing active surveillance (AS) with standard surgery (SUR) in patients with a clinical complete response (cCR) after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy 1 . AS was non-inferior to SUR in terms of overall survival at 2-year follow-up. By randomizing hospitals instead of individual patients and by sequential crossover of centres to the active survei...

What is the point of referencing? Why does everyone make such a big deal about it? What is plagiarism and how serious is it really? When you start to complete your literature searches you must also start your referencing process. Complete our etutorial Introduction to Referencing and Plagiarism to learn: What is referencing and why does it matter? What is plagiarism and how can you avoid it? What do you need to create a reference?

 BMJ Case Reports is available to UHNM staff both to view full-text and to submit your own case reports. There have been 2 recent case reports submitted by UHNM staff: Penetrating head trauma unbeknown to the patient David Bristow and Shayda Karimi Abstract Penetrating head trauma often leads to significant morbidity or mortality. A man presented to our tertiary centre with concerns of a nail in his brain after work colleagues reviewed closed-circuit television footage which appeared to show a pneumatic nail gun discharging against his head during an incident at work 4 days earlier. Remarkably, the patient reported no symptoms and no clinical signs apart from a small scabbed area on his scalp. A CT scan of his head was performed which showed a 4 cm nail lodged within the parietal lobe of his brain. The patient subsequently underwent a craniotomy with removal of the nail along with antimicrobial cover with antibiotics and tetanus prophylaxis. The patient made a full recovery and was...

 Are you ready to start your assignment? Are you preparing to complete a literature search? Complete our etutorial Introduction to Literature Searching :  Learn why planning is so important Follow these steps and make your literature search quicker, easier and more comprehensive Get your plan for your assignment or project

  Get articles on key, major trials and practice changing news. You can access the big 4 key journals for free. What are the big 4 medical journals? The big 4 medical journals are: BMJ (British Medical Journal) The Lancet NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine) JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) How do you access the big 4 journals? NHS staff can access all 4 journals online using the same username / password – your NHS OpenAthens username / password. Not sure what an OpenAthens username is? Complete our etutorial. Get your OpenAthens username by completing the online form . Keele University staff and students get automatic access on campus but will need to use their email address and password to log in when off-campus. Where can you access the big 4 journals from? Our journal collections are not necessarily available from the publishers’ websites. NHS staff can browse our journal collections on Browzine. Whereas Keele University staff...