Information Skills for Health

 Inspired by Health Information Week we've created a new tutorial 10 steps to creating patient information . Here you'll get hints and tips on preparing health information for your patients. You'll learn about health literacy and how you can accommodate poor health literacy to make sure that your patients are well informed and can make good healthcare decisions. Try the tutorial now:  10 steps to creating patient information Need more help? You can find more etutorials on our Information Skills eTutorials page . Contact the Health Library if you need any help.

 Latest news from the TRIP database team. Exciting Additions : We have some fantastic updates to share: Quality improvements: Two recent changes have improved results. We've  updated our synonyms  which has dramatically improved a number of searches and we've also introduced a  new de-duplication system  which removed around 150,000 duplicate records. Guideline scoring: We've just added another batch of  guideline scores  - 50 in total. Nearly all our guidelines are now displayed with a score. Survey time : We emailed you a couple of weeks ago about our latest survey. It's still open so if you've not already taken part then please do so ( click here to take the survey ). User feedback is a cornerstone of Trip’s development and, over the years, it has proved invaluable - so please try to find a few minutes to help direct Trip's development. Access TRIP :  The TRIP database is free to search. Additional functionality and full-text is available to Pro users. NHS s

 Learn more about searching for articles for systematic reviews by attending this online training from ebsco. Supporting Systematic Reviews using EBSCOhost Part 1 – Searching (60-minutes) This session will introduce the concepts of searching the healthcare literature to support systematic reviews from initial framing of a question, to demonstrate searching using one example of a framework – PICO - searching both keywords and subject terms for CINAHL and MEDLINE on the EBSCOhost interface. •       Tuesday, 4th July @ 10.00am  https://calendly.com/rcrookes/supporting-systematic-reviews-using-ebscohost-part-one?month=2023-07&date=2023-07-04 Supporting Systematic Reviews using EBSCOhost Part 2 – Managing Results (60 minutes) This session will introduce options for managing search results after searching the literature on CINAHL and MEDLINE, in support of systematic reviews. This session will look at available options including using personal Folders to store and retrieve searches and r

 Ebsco are delivering some online training for users on medline, via ebsco platform. Click the link to book. Systematic Searching in MEDLINE on EBSCOhost (60 mins) This session will introduce advanced search concepts for searching MEDLINE. In this session we will look at developing a complex search strategy, incorporating wildcards and proximity search operators, running freetext and MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) searches, and applying available filters to focus search results. •       Wednesday, 19th July @ 10.00am  https://calendly.com/rcrookes/systematic-searching-medline?month=2023-07&date=2023-07-19 Creating Alerts in CINAHL and MEDLINE (45 mins) This session will demonstrate how to keep current with the healthcare literature using search and publications alerts on the EBSCOhost interface. •       Thursday, 20th July @ 10.00am  https://calendly.com/rcrookes/creating-search-alerts-in-cinahl-medline?month=2023-07&date=2023-07-20

 Ebsco are delivering online training to help users get to grips with the cinahl database. Click the link to book your spot. Searching CINAHL Databases – Basic level searching (60 mins) This session will introduce basic searching concepts on CINAHL, the most widely used and respected research tool for nurses, students and allied health professionals. In this session we will look at keyword (free text) searching, refining search results, viewing, printing & emailing results. •       Wednesday, 5th July @ 10.00am  https://calendly.com/rcrookes/searching-cinahl-basic-level?month=2023-07&date=2023-07-05 Searching CINAHL Databases – Advanced level searching (60 mins) This session will introduce more advanced search concepts on CINAHL. In this session we will look at Subject Searching, combining search results, saving and re-running saved searches, creating, and sharing custom folders. •       Wednesday, 19th July @ 12.00pm  https://calendly.com/rcrookes/searching-cinahl-databases-ad