FREE TRIAL to Dynamed for Worcs Health & Care Trust staff
Worcestershire Health Libraries are running a free trial to Dynamed throughout Sept 2014. This resource is useful for any member of staff who needs to quickly and easily find the most current evidence-based information about a particular diagnosis, disease or treatment.
Features
• Provides clinically-organized summaries for 3,000+ disease and condition topics.
• Is updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journals.
• Also monitors journal review services, systematic review collections, guideline collections, drug information sources and other relevant sources, including UK sources.
• Highlights the best available evidence for a disease or condition.
• Can provide alerts whenever a topic is updated.
• Includes one-click access to selected full-text articles.
• Mobile app available.
Access
• Intranet: Evidence-based practice page
• Web/Athens: http://www.wkp.nhs.uk > Quick Links
• Mobile: Free app available for iOS or Android on Skyscape. Please email rowlands.library@worcsacute.nhs.uk for serial number and more details.
More
information on the editorial and evidence-based protocols used to evaluate
research and form recommendations included in Dynamed can be found here.
Please try Dynamed for an answer to your
next clinical query and see what you think.
Chance to listen to David on Choice Radio Worcester talking about Library services, Mud running and Voluntary work – not done at the same time!
Last Sunday David Chamberlain was invited by Pete Phillips from Radio Choice Worcester to talk about his forth coming charity mud run and about library services. Click on the link below http://1drv.ms/1qy8Ymn to listen.
David said “The morning was really good fun, chatting about work and mud runs and playing some of my favourite songs. Pete was really welcoming”
If you would like to sponsor David please go to https://www.justgiving.com/David-Chamberlain-Mudrunner/ or catch up with Penny Venable’s or Harry Turner’s music choices @ http://www.choiceradio2.org.uk/
There is a known issue with the apps not working with newly created NHS Athens accounts. If you install the app and get the error message ‘Your Athens account is not active’ try the following:
• Login to NHS Athens on the NICE NHS Evidence webpages at: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/Auth/Login?
• Click on a couple of resources from the My Resources tab.
• Go back to the app and try logging in again. Your NHS Athens account should now be recognised.
If you still experience problems please let us know so that we can investigate further.
More information about the BNF/BNFC apps can be found at: https://www.nice.org.uk/About/What-we-do/NICE-apps-for-smartphones-and-tablets
New specialty added to UpToDate: Palliative Care
This newly launched UpToDate specialty integrates the most current information on palliative care into recommendations that are relevant to clinical staff across many disciplines. Content includes comprehensive information on clinical and psychosocial issues and evidence-based recommendations for assessing and managing pain and non-pain symptoms.
The Palliative Care specialty includes:
• 90+ clinical topics — a list of topics for any specialty can be found through the “Contents” link on the top toolbar
• 45 new graphics — created specifically for palliative care topics
100+ contributors — authors and editors are clearly identified in each topic.
The Trust-wide subscription to UpToDate is managed by Worcestershire Health Libraries. Please contact us if you have any queries.
A big thank you to everyone who came to the Worcestershire health Libraries focus group today at the Charles Hastings Education Centre.
We had a great mix of staff and David Chamberlain has gathered loads of great information that we will use to shape our future services.
We look forward to seeing the focus group on a quarterly basis.
The Rowlands Library have had a fresh batch of Fiction Books Delivered ready for you to read!
We have over 200 new books on loan from the Hive on our shelves, all different genres. These are available to loan and you can search our books at: www.hawks.nhs.uk
NHS staff now able to access an additional 2300+ scientific and medical journals online – joint academic/NHS pilot.
Disclaimer
The information on here is aimed at keeping the user up-to-date with news and resources available through the library. We take no responsibility for any actions taken due to the content of the site.
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