Information Skills for Health

We have been informed by Elsevier that the Clinical Key app is again available in the Apple store. You will need your UHNM athens username to login.

What is it? TRIP Pro is an upgraded version of the TRIP database. For more information about the TRIP database see our resource of the week #21 . Key Features Extra features in TRIP Pro include: More systematic reviews Database of medical images Clinical videos Links to full-text articles Reference management tool exports Advanced search options How can it help you? TRIP is an excellent search engine to help you to find good quality, high-level, medical related information. How to access it? TRIP Pro is feely available to NHS staff members, via the NHS network. More help? There are a range of “how to” videos to help you to get to grips with all the functionality of TRIP. You may also be interested in items posted on the TRIP blog .

The Health Library has had to cancel the additional titles within Medicines Complete, available to NHS Athens users from UHNM and North Staffs Combined Healthcare. This is because: 1. Pharmaceutical Press, the publishers, have severely restricted the number of users allowed access. 2. This means that the resource represents poor value for money. Access to the additional titles within Medicines Complete will end 31 st  May 2018. Staff in the UHNM pharmacy department should contact the Medicines Information Manager for alternate routes to drug / medicine texts. Medicines Complete is still available to all NHS Athens users to access the BNF and BNFc.

What is it? NICE Evidence Search is a healthcare-based search engine provided by NICE. You can use it to search across a wide range of approved healthcare-based, mainly secondary, resources. It can be really useful to help you to find high-level evidence such as summaries and guidelines. Screen-shot of the home page for NICE Evidence Search Key Features Evidence Search offers you a simple search box to enter your search terms. Results are presented according to relevance. You can then use the options on the left-hand-side to filter the results according to: Evidence Type Area of Interest Source Date You can also select to view only those items from NICE accredited resources. How can it help you? This is an excellent search engine that can help you to focus on good quality healthcare resources, available in the UK. How to access it? NICE Evidence Search is freely available on the Internet. Many of the resources it finds are also freely available, howe...

The Elsevier ClinicalKey Apple App is currently unavailable.  It  has been removed from the App store due to some changes Apple have introduced. Elsevier are currently working to resolve the problem. The Android App is still available, and if users have already installed the Apple App it should not be affected.

New Clinical Overviews – CK Global Hepatocellular carcinoma Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease Williams syndrome Journal Added Portuguese Journal of Cardiology ; Years of Coverage: 2011 to present; ISSN: 2174-2049; Package/Collection: Cardiovascular Disease Extended;  https://www.clinicalkey.com/ dura/browse/journalIssue/ 21742049 Journals Removed Digestive and Liver Disease Supplement ; ISSN: 1594-5804; Package/Collection: Gastroenterology-Hepatology; Discontinued. Recommended alternative –  Digestive and Liver Disease European Journal of Radiology Extra ; ISSN: 1571-4675; Package/Collection: Radiology Extended; Discontinued. Recommended alternative –  European Journal of Radiology Books Added – CK Global Atlas of Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia  (Gray, Andrew) 3rd ed; ISBN: 9780323509510; Package/Collection: Anesthesiology; New edition (replaces 9781455728183);  https://www.clinicalkey.com/ dura/browse/bookChapter/3-s2. 0-C2015005402...

What is it? The Keele A-Z eJournals List details all the online journal titles that Keele University subscribes to. Key Features You can use the list to: Browse for a title using the A-Z links Search for a journal title View the holdings available Use the online link to go to the journal page and access the full-text How can it help you? The Keele A-Z journal list helps you to find the full-text of articles. Full-text may not always be via the publisher page, thus it is always important to check the A-Z to see if the title is available elsewhere eg a database or other platform. NHS library members may have access to Keele networked resources via the Keele network. Ask for a temporary login at the counter. How to access it? The Keele journals A-Z list is available on the Internet via Library Search . You do not need a log in to see what is available on the list. However you will need a Keele computer login to access the full-text of any articles. Video...

Elsevier has added British National Formulary (BNF) and British National Formulary for Children (BNFC) content to ClinicalKey. As of the 30th of April 2018, the new content is available within Clinical Key to users within the UK and Ireland. Screen-shot of Clinical Key drug titles Clinical Key is available to UHNM athens users. For more help see our website.

The Current Awareness pages and RSS feeds have been updated to remove journals no longer available via our subscriptions. For more help on keeping up-to-date check the  Current Awareness section on the website.

A new Library and Knowledge Service is available for staff working for Ambulance services in England.  Here you can: find support for athens accounts apply for an inter-library loan for articles request a literature search sign-up for current awareness bulletins access links to resources browse guides to help you Screen-shot of LKS for ambulance staff

What is it? CASP is the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme. This is a skills programme devised by a training and consultancy firm to help users to learn about and understand the critical appraisal of healthcare–related studies. Part of the programme provides checklists to help users to systematically critically appraise studies. These checklists are available online. Key Features Checklists are available for a range of study types: Systematic Reviews Qualitative Studies Randomised Controlled Trials Case Control Studies Cohort Studies You can either print off the checklist or fill it in online and then download and save it. How can it help you? The CASP checklists prompt you to think about various aspects of a study in order to help you to decide whether the study is valid, the results make sense and it is relevant to your question. How to access it? The checklists are freely available online. eTutorial Our etutorial Critical Appraisal Tools...

UHNM users who use Clinical Key may find trouble logging in if using the Keele network. Clinical Key is available to our UHNM users via athens login. We have come across a problem whereby if you have not activated your Clinical Key account, you cannot log in on the Keele network. We believe that this is something to do with Keele also holding subscriptions with the publisher Elsevier but not having a subscription to Clinical Key. It is unclear why the problem is only affecting unactivated accounts. We have not experienced any problems accessing Clinical Key via the NHS network or via a home connection, whether the account is activated or not. For information about activating your Clinical Key account see our blog post here . The problem may also occur at other organisations / institutions who have Elsevier subscriptions but not Clinical Key. We have reported the problem to the publishers and they are investigating. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

HDAS or the Healthcare Databases Advanced Search interface is a single interface allowing you to search for journal articles, research and reviews from the major healthcare-related databases AMED, BNI, Cinahl, Embase, Health Business Elite, HMIC, Medline and Psychinfo. This database is available to NHS openathens users only. Here are the step-by-step instructions to getting started with HDAS. 1. Start at the Health Library home page and click the Quick Links option Healthcare Resources (NHS). Screen-shot of the Health Library home page 2. Page down until you reach the HDAS link, in the NHS Athens Tools section. Screen-shot of the NHS resources page 3. Click the HDAS link. Screen-shot of the HDAS link 4. You will now be on the NICE HDAS page. Any problems with Athens or any of the databases will be presented on this page. You must log in to openathens in order to search the various databases. Click the link top-right. Screen-shot of th...

What is it? Embase is an online bibliographic database that focuses on drug and pharmacological topics. Key Features The database covers: - Over 30 million abstracts and indices from more than 8,500 published, peer-reviewed journals, as well as in-press publications and conferences - More than 6 million records and indexes 2,900 journals NOT covered in MEDLINE - Full-text indexing of drug, disease and medical device data, supported by the precise Emtree thesaurus How can it help you? You can search the database for articles and research studies relating to drugs and medicines as well as biotechnology subjects. How to access it? This resource is only available to NHS users. The NHS subscription is with Embase via the Ovid platform. It is one of the key resources available via HDAS . You will need to log on with your NHS openathens username. More help? You can find more help on how to use the databases with HDAS via our online guides pages .