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Introducing OE Signal — the new name for OrthoUpdate – from OrthoEvidence

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 Researchers at Keele and NHS staff working in musculoskeletal specialties can sign up for updates from OrthoEvidence. You’ll receive a personalised weekly briefing, highlighting new evidence and insights across your selected subspecialties.

OrthoEvidence is an evidence-based clinical platform trusted by over 50,000 orthopaedic professionals. It monitors over 160+ essential musculoskeletal journals, highlighting important practice changing research and critically appraising key papers. You can get this delivered straight to your inbox with OE Signal Updates, giving you essential evidence and saving you time

Step 1 Request your affiliated login

OrthoEvidence is not OpenAthens authenticated. You will need an individual username / password to log in and access OE original content. Request your log in from the Health Library by completing our online form.

Step 2 Log in to OrthoEvidence

Go to the OrthoEvidence website and login (top right).

screen-shot showing the home page for OrthoEvidence

Select your account options (top right).

screen-shot showing the drop-down account options

Step 3 Select your clinical specialities

Select My Specialties and Interests from the drop down box. You are presented with a list of options.

screen-shot showing the list of specialties

Select the musculoskeletal specialties you are interested in. I have selected a number of topics.

Step 4 Select your professional interests

Page down to see the professional interests list.

screen-shot showing some of the professional interests list

I have selected Practice and Innovation. Page to the bottom of the page and click the Save button to save your selection.

screen-shot of the save changes button

 Step 5 Choose your newsletter

Next choose the newsletter you want to receive. Select the account options again and choose Newsletter Subscription from the drop-down box.

screen-shot showing the account drop-down options

Select which newsletters you want to receive by toggling the buttons. OE Signal will give you weekly summaries of reports matching your selected interests. Then click the button Save Changes.

screen-shot of the available newsletters

Step 6 Get your newsletter straight to your inbox

You will receive regular update emails based on your selected topics. Here is an example I received.

screen-shot of an OE update email listing the ACE Reports

New feature: AskOE

OrthoEvidence has introduced a new AI feature AskOE. This AI-powered search engine uses the OE database of high quality musculoskeletal research to offer fast, trusted, MSK-answers to clinical questions. Why not give it a try? Here is an example query that I asked.

screen-shot of an example AskOE query and result

More help

For more help using OrthoEvidence please contact the Health Library.

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