Information Skills for Health

 Did you notice a football World Cup is on? Lots of fun-filled football until Sunday 19th July, with 48 teams and over 100 matches ( Wikipedia, 2026 ). Why does the Health Library care? We support your interest in sports medicine and musculoskeletal conditions. OrthoEvidence – our specialist orthopaedic / musculoskletal resource – is thinking about the players and the impact of sports injuries. Their recent “The Pulse: a World Cup ortho-update” bulletin highlights 2 concerns: The effectiveness of Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury prevention programs Training to stay in the game: ACL prevention programs Anyone who plays sports knows how devastating an ACL rupture can be. To avoid the negative outcomes associated with it, a host of ACL injury preventions have been released over the last few years. But how truly effective are these programs? In a recent meta-analyses published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, including 18 articles and over 25,000 athletes, the eviden...

 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...

  OrthoEvidence is a specialist resource providing key evidence via summarised, easy to read reports across a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions. Key Evidence Key evidence in the orthopaedics field is presented via summarised reports and includes critically appraised articles. You can also listen to podcasts and participate in webinars. Sign-up for updates to get the latest releases straight to your inbox. Get Access OrthoEvidence is not available via OpenAthens. As this is a specialist resource, we are offering an individual username / password to UHNM members of staff working in orthopaedics or physical therapies, and Keele researchers investigating musculoskeletal conditions. We have a limited number of usernames available. You can link to OrthoEvidence via our NHS resources page . More help Go to our OrthoEvidence help page for blog posts detailing the key features of this resource Contact our training and information support librarians if you would like a demonstratio...

 Users signed up to OrthoEvidence can set up their updates so that they get the latest summarized, critically appraised, evidence straight to their inbox. You can select which updates you would like Log in to OrthoEvidence and hover over the account icon. Then select the Newsletter option from the options presented. You’ll be able to see the list of newsletters available to you. Toggle on the ones that you want to receive. You can select more than one. Click Save Changes when you’re finished. You will now receive these newsletters straight to your inbox. Please see our previous blog posts: What is OrthoEvidence and why is it useful? Personalising your OrthoEvidence account This resource is not available via OpenAthens login. We have a limited number of accounts available. Please contact the eresources librarian at c.kent@keele.ac.uk for instructions to obtain your login account. Please be aware that OrthoEvidence is available to members of Royal College of Surgeo...

 OrthoEvidence allows orthopaedic and physiotherapy specialist staff to stay up-to-date with the latest evidence, in an easy to read format. You can get expert summaries of the best research. Get all the latest content in one place on your dashboard. Too much? Too general? Then just re-arrange your dashboard to get what you want. Your dashboard is presented after you log in to OrthoEvidence. You will see the latest published content at the top. You can then page down to see the other sections. For example Ace Reports, Favourites or Recently Read articles. See an example below. You can re-order the different sections or even remove a section so the ones you are most interested in are presented to you. Simply click on the arrows next to the section title to get the Customize Your Dashboard options. From the selection screen toggle the sections off or on. You can then drag the sections up or down to give the order you want to see. Click Save Changes when you are happy wi...

 If you’ve signed up to OrthoEvidence you can make the most of your account by personalising it. You can set up your account to easily find content on your specialty and save your favourite articles. Log in to OrthoEvidence with your username and password. Set up your Specialty Hover over the account icon (top right-hand corner). You should now see your personalization options pop up along the top of the screen. Select the My Specialties option.  You can then select the specialties you are interested in by ticking the selection boxes. Click  Save Changes  to save your selections. You will now be able to see content for your selected specialties in the My Subspecialty Content section of your dashboard. Save your Favourites Save your favourite articles so that you can refer back to them easily. You can save articles from your dashboard to your favourites list. Hover over the article, then click the plus icon to add it to your favourites list. Whe...

 OrthoEvidence (OE) is a global digital content provider of the best evidence in orthopaedics. OE identifies, analyses, summarises, and grades the top 5% of published content and makes it available in an easy-to-read ACE (Advanced Clinical Evidence) format for users. It can save you time by identifying and summarising the best evidence in this specialist field. The Health Library has subscribed to OrthoEvidence and makes it available to researchers and professionals working with patients with musculoskeletal conditions. You can access a range of content including: ACE Reports (advanced clinical evidence reports) These reports summarise selected high quality orthopaedic-based RCT papers, including analysis, critical appraisal and summary, in an easy-to-read format. OE Originals These original research briefs published by OE provide new data analyses, results, and insights to inform critical questions. They summarise evidence from published datasets. OE Insights The...