Information Skills for Health

 Elsevier are organising a couple of events of interest for the end of March: essential training on Clinical Key for new users and a Women's Network event looking at women's mental and hormonal health. Clinical Key (published by elsevier) is a clinical search engine providing key evidence-based resources to staff at UHNM. Clinical Key Training March 24th – 10:00hrs UK & Ireland time ; Register for this MS Teams event online General session highlighting two journeys on Clinical Key- for the point of care and for reference or research. Make the most of this valuable resource. Suitable for new users and anyone wanting refresher training. Improving the Science Behind Women’s Mental and Hormonal Health March 31st - 12:00hrs UK & Ireland time ; Register for this MS Teams event online . This International Women’s Day, our panel shines a light on one of the most urgent gaps in modern science: the persistent exclusion of female’s biology from research, with a specific emphasis o...

 The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub allows you to execute simple searches across a wide range of resources. The results list can often be quite extensive. Use the filters to focus your search results. The K&L Hub offers you a wide range of filters. From the initial search results page you can select: Full-text – whether the item is available to you in full-text Peer reviewed – whether articles have been peer reviewed Date – short range of publication dates to select. Note that you can customise the publication date range further in the All filters panel Source type – such as books, articles, reports, reviews ect The All filters button will reveal the filters panel. You can see what filters you have already selected and choose from a wide range. Some important filters to consider are: Library Catalogue Only – to view books and ebooks on the Hub which are available for you borrow from the libraries’ collections BMJ Best Practice – to focus on evidence-based guidelines Publicatio...

  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, ...