Information Skills for Health

   You can help your patients understand their condition better and improve their own outcomes by providing, or pointing them to, good quality patient information. Whether you want to create your own bespoke patient information or find something ready-made, take a look at the options below. Main resources to help you to find patient information: BMJ Best Practice    BMJ Best Practice is a clinical decision support tool, offering evidence-based information on a wide range of conditions and diseases. Select the Patient Leaflets option from the top menu bar. You can then either browse the A-Z list or search for the condition. Once presented with the information you can either print it out or download it as a PDF file. BMJ Best Practice  is available to all NHS staff. Log in with your NHS OpenAthens username. Clinical Key (UHNM staff only)    Clinical Key is a clinical search engine, covering a wide range of full-text sources. It offers you quick and easy ...

 From NICE: NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) topics  are aimed at healthcare professionals working in primary and first contact care in the UK. The 370 topics cover 1000 clinical presentations or patient scenarios and are free to access. The following CKS topics have been created or updated over the past months: October: Angio-oedema and anaphylaxis  – the topic has been updated to align with the Resuscitation Council UK guideline  Emergency treatment of anaphylaxis. Guidelines for healthcare providers . Recommendations to routinely administer IV or IM chlorphenamine and hydrocortisone have been removed from this topic. Bunions  – the section on Assessment has been moved to the diagnosis section to improve clarity and navigation and an additional section on surgical management has been added to the management section. Heart failure – chronic  – advice to add iron studies as part of the assessment of a person with heart failure and to manage comorbidi...

  NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) topics   are aimed at healthcare professionals working in primary and first contact care in the UK. The 370 topics cover 1000 clinical presentations or patient scenarios and are free to access. The following CKS topics have been created or updated over the past months: April:  Platelets – abnormal counts and cancer  is a  new  CKS topic. The evidence base has been reviewed in detail, and recommendations are clearly justified and transparently linked to the supporting evidence. Itch – widespread . The sections on management of itch of known and unknown cause have been merged to avoid repetition of text. The recommendations have been updated in line with current evidence in the literature. The recommendations on prescribing oral antihistamines have been amended to consider the use of non-sedating oral antihistamines first line unless there is a history of troublesome nocturnal itch. New sections on Cetirizine, Loratad...

 News from NICE about new Clinical Knowledge Summaries NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) topics  are aimed at healthcare professionals working in primary and first contact care in the UK. The 370 topics cover 1000 clinical presentations or patient scenarios and are free to access. The following CKS topics have been created or updated over the past months: January: Mental health in students  is a  new  CKS topic. The evidence base has been reviewed in detail, and recommendations are clearly justified and transparently linked to the supporting evidence. Diabetes type 2 . The topic has undergone minor restructuring to improve clarity and navigation. The recommendations have been updated in line with current literature. Information on the hyperglycaemic emergency complication of hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state (HHS) has been added. Tennis elbow . There have been minor structural changes, and a recommendation not to use corticosteroids routinely for treating ...

 News from NICE about Clinical Knowledge Summaries. Clinical Knowledge Summaries provide healthcare professionals with up-to-date easily accessible evidence relating to many of the conditions and diseases presented within primary care. The CKS webpages have a new feature, which allows you to download a version of CKS onto your desktop or mobile phone. The web app is available in most browsers, including Edge and Chrome - but isn't currently supported by IE11 or Safari. You can find the download icon in the address bar when you're on a CKS webpage  (via your browser) Instructions: Go to Clinical Knowledge Summaries on your phone browse Click "Install CKS" from the address bar The app will download as normal to your phone as app CKS | NICE Click the icon to open CKS on your phone You can browse and search - an Internet connection is required. It doesn't download all the CKS topics straight away, just makes a copy of those that you look at, so you can't access al...

 Please see the following news release about recent topics in Clinical Knowledge Summaries: NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) topics  are aimed at healthcare professionals working in primary and first contact care in the UK. The 370 topics cover 1000 clinical presentations or patient scenarios and are free to access. The following CKS topics have been created or updated over the past months: September All Cancer  recognition and referral topics  – these topics have been updated to bring them into line with the update of NICE guideline  Suspected cancer: recognition and referral. Cervical screening  and  Cervical cancer and HPV  - these topics have been updated in line with the Public Health England (PHE) guidance  Cervical screening: programme and colposcopy management to incorporate details of primary HPV screening . Addison’s disease  - information that people with Addison's disease taking an equivalent dose of 20 mg prednisolone...

I have been sent the following information, from NICE, regarding Clinical Knowledge Summaries updates for the past 3 months. Clinical Knowledge Summaries are designed to support primary care and provide guidance and recommendations on a wide range of healthcare conditions. April A new topic on  Coronavirus COVID 19  was created and continuously updated throughout the last 3 months. Other CKS topics updated in April include: Chest infections – adult  –  Links to the COVID-19 management scenario have been added in the Assessment section and the Management of community-acquired pneumonia section to highlight that assessment of suspected chest infection and management of community-acquired pneumonia will differ during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chest pain  – New management scenario created to provide information regarding COVID-19. Chronic kidney disease  – New management scenario created to provide information regarding COVID-19. Osteoporosis – prevention of ...

What is it? Clinical Knowledge Summaries are evidence-based summaries and practical guidance of a range of primary care presentations. They are developed and published by NICE. Key Features You can find a summary for a condition by selecting from the A-Z list, selecting by specialty or using the simple search box. Screen-shot of the Clinical Knowledge Summaries example page Information presented will often include elements such as diagnosis, management and prescription. References will be included and there is usually an indication of how up-to-date the recommendations are. How can it help you? Clinical Knowledge Summaries are mainly aimed at staff working in Primary Care. You can check the latest evidence for the treatment of the included conditions. How to access it? Clinical Knowledge Summaries are freely available on the Internet on the NICE website.