Worcestershire Health Libraries Coronavirus Bulletin - 26/03/20

                                           

Worcestershire Health Libraries:

Coronavirus Bulletin—26/03/20

Original Research

Title: A comparative study on the clinical features of COVID-19 pneumonia to other pneumonias

Description: Nineteen 2019-nCoV pneumonia and fifteen other pneumonia patients were compared. Demographic, epidemiological, clinical, and radiological features from those patients were analysed.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa247

Title: A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers

Description: Hospital wards were randomised to: medical masks, cloth masks or a control group (usual practice, which included mask wearing). Participants used the mask on every

Title: Clinical features and obstetric and neonatal outcomes of pregnant patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China

Description: Clinical features, treatments, and maternal and foetal outcomes were assessed in all pregnant women with COVID-19 admitted to a Chinese hospital.

Available from: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30176-6/fulltext

Guidelines

Title: Infection prevention and control during health care when novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection is suspected

Description: This guidance is intended for healthcare workers (HCWs), healthcare managers and IPC teams at the facility level—and is also relevant at the national and district/provincial level.

Available from: https://www.who.int/publications-detail/infection-prevention-and-control-during-health...

Title: Are there any evidence-based ways of assessing dyspnoea (breathlessness) by telephone or video?

Description: There does not appear to be a validated tool to assess breathlessness over the telephone or by video. Clinical judgement, through careful history taking and questioning, may currently be the best available method.

Available from: https://www.cebm.net/are-there-any-evidence-based-ways-of-assessing-dyspnoea...

Expert Opinions

Title: The life and death decisions of covid-19

Description: If the NHS’s intensive care capacity is breached, how do we decide which patients should get priority? Daniel Sokol—medical ethicist and barrister—considers the various ethical arguments

Available from: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/03/20/daniel-sokol-the-life-and-death-decisions-of-covid-19/

Title: Patients with mental health disorders in the COVID-19 epidemic

Description: The author considers how ignorance of the differential impact of the epidemic on those with mental health disorders will also augment already existing health inequalities.

Available from: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30090-0/fulltext

 

For additional support on accessing the publications above, visit www.wkp.nhs.uk

February 2020

	February 2020
Do what we say we will do	Sharon was also given a ‘thank-you’ cake from E-Rostering on Tuesday for letting them know candidates were waiting for interviews.
No delays, every day	LKS  sent information to communications about Free Of Charge access to coronavirus published articles.
We listen, we learn, we lead	Our Clinical Librarian supported the Physiotherapy team during their quarterly journal club.
Work together, celebrate together	The team attended the HR away day – where we were able to share ideas and recognise the work being carried out by all the various teams within the directorate.

Coronavirus Information

Coronavirus Information

For clinicians looking for latest research about coronavirus a number of publishers are providing free access to research articles during the prevalent period of this new strain of the virus.  This is in addition to the information provided by the World Health Organisation.  These include journals published by Wiley, Elsevier, Ovid and OUP, plus The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine and BMJ.  See below for access information.

NICE

https://www.nice.org.uk/covid-19 

Rapid guidelines and evidence reviews.

Wiley

Wiley Presents Corona Virus articles

As new articles are published, they will be made free to access, and added to this centralized resource of coronavirus research. These important pieces of literature will remain open until April 2020 and the window of time will be extended as needed.

Elsevier

Novel Coronavirus Information Center

New online information center to the latest clinical and scientific information from Elsevier in English and Mandarin Chinese.  The information center will be updated frequently with the most current research and evidence-based information available.

The Lancet

https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus

BMJ

https://www.bmj.com/coronavirus

New England Journal of Medicine

https://www.nejm.org/coronavirus

SpringerNature
https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/campaigns/coronavirus 

Ovid
http://tools.ovid.com/coronavirus/

GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network)
Athens login is required - if you don't have an Athens account please contact our libraries at our website below.
GIDEON

Oxford University Press

https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/coronavirus

If further publishers provide similar resources we will keep you updated.

For help and support accessing any resources please contact Worcestershire Health Libraries: www.wkp.nhs.uk

January 2020

	January 2020
Do what we say we will do	Difficult to source but vital information was obtained for a forthcoming orthodontics clinical audit, the feedback given was, “you are an absolute star! Thanks so much”.
No delays, every day	Our document delivery service received the following feedback from a clinician, “many thanks, that was super-efficient!!  Weekend reading for me!”
We listen, we learn, we lead	Library and Knowledge Services have had their vital work included in the revised WAHT People and Culture Strategy.
Work together, celebrate together	A Thank You cake was given to Sharon and Raymond for their help with recent interviews at the Kidderminster Education Centre.

Happy Christmas

Worcestershire Health Libraries would like to thank all our users for their support over the past year and we wish all our users a 

Happy and Peaceful Christmas and New Year

Knowvember

As part of the Library & Knowledge Service, we are currently taking part in a Knowledge for Healthcare (under Health Education England) awareness initiative called Knowvember.
Knowvember gives us a chance to showcase the many ways in which we help mobilise evidence and knowledge across the county.

Follow thie link below for more information:

https://worcestershire-weekly-nhs.tfemagazine.co.uk/191119/latest-news/knowvember-wed-love-to-hear-what-you-have-to-say