2. Session outline
1. The importance of evidence in healthcare
2. Clinical librarian services
3. Library resources
4. Skills training
5. NHS library sites
3. • Work out the best option when planning and delivering health and care and services
• Distinguish between ‘better and worse’ treatment approaches
• Ensure money is spent effectively
• Keep up to date with current developments in your profession which leads to better patient care
Otherwise known as
Evidence Based Practice
Why is research evidence important?
Research evidence helps us to:
4. We provide expert searches to inform patient care, service development, research activities and QI projects.
The librarian can look up information on your behalf, if lack of time,
confidence or any other reason should prevent you from doing so.
If your search request relates to assessed academic work as part of a
course, or if you would like to learn how to search databases yourself,
training and guidance on evidence searching can be provided.
Clinical librarian service
Evidence searching
5. • Evidence searching
• Health literacy awareness
• Critical appraisal
• Introduction to the NHS Knowledge & Library Hub
• Training for specific databases
Library training
More information here:
6. OpenAthens is an identity and IP-based authentication system that provides access to
nationally and locally purchased e-resources via single sign-on.
OpenAthens
Register here
openathens.nice.org.uk
10. Link for feedback about DynaMed:
https://forms.office.com/e/RUC7mCUKcW
11. Databases
AMED (Proquest Dialog) – allied and complementary medicine,
including palliative care
BNI (Proquest) – nursing, midwifery and community healthcare
CINAHL (EBSCOHost)– nursing and allied health
Embase (Ovid) – biomedical and pharmaceutical literature
Emcare (Ovid) – nursing and allied health
HMIC (Ovid)– healthcare management
Medline (Ovid or EBSCOHost) – biomedical, life sciences, allied health and pre-clinical sciences literature
PsycInfo (Proquest) – psychology, behavioural sciences and related disciplines
Social Policy and Practice (Ovid) – behavioural and social sciences, social work and public health
Choosing which databases depends on subject area and coverage, which your librarian can advise on.
12. E-books
OUP handbooks and textbooks
All staff and students in the NHS have
access to a collection of Oxford Medicine
e-books including:
• Oxford textbook of community mental
health
• New Oxford textbook of psychiatry
• Forensic psychiatry
• Drugs in psychiatry
• Addiction medicine
Kortext
Kortext is an e-book platform that gives you access to
hundreds of books for NHS staff and learners including
collections on sustainability, wellbeing and resilience and
equality and diversity. Other books on the Kortext platform for
mental health and psychological professionals include:
• Psychiatry at a Glance
• Mental Health Effects of COVID-19
• Managing Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care
• Rutter’s Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• Get Through MRCPsych CASC
13. To search for e-books, go to the regional NHS library catalogue at kss.koha-ptfs.co.uk
E-books
You can filter
for e-books on
the left-hand
side of the
results page
kss.koha-ptfs.co.uk
14. On the results page, look for the
‘online access’ note. Some
records will say “Subscribing
Trusts only. OpenAthens
accounts”. Click the ‘check
eligibility’ link to find out if access
includes KMPT staff.
kss.koha-ptfs.co.uk
E-books
15. Critical Appraisal IS
• Balanced assessment of benefits
and strengths of research against its
flaws and weaknesses
• Assessment of research process
and results
• Consideration of quantitative and
qualitative aspects of research
• To be undertaken by ALL health
professionals as part of their work
Critical Appraisal IS NOT
• Negative dismissal of any
piece of work
• Assessment of results
alone
• Based entirely on detailed
statistical analysis
• To be undertaken by
expert researchers or
statisticians only
Critical appraisal
16. “The personal characteristics and social resources needed for individuals and communities to
access, understand, appraise and use information and services to make decisions about health”
Why is this a problem?
Adults who have low language, literacy and numeracy skills, and their
children and families, suffer the worst health outcomes in society.
61% of the overall population aged 16-64 do not have adequate literacy
and numeracy skills to routinely understand or interpret health information.
Improving patients’ health literacy can save time, ensure effective use of
resources, and improve patient care, patient satisfaction and patient safety.
Health literacy
17. • Register with the library
• Study space (PC and wifi access may vary)
• Books for borrowing
• 24/7 access available at some sites
NHS library sites
There are library sites located in the hospital trusts in Dartford, East Kent, Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells
and Medway. To find out more about the services that these libraries offer to KMPT staff, please visit
www.hlisd.org/ and search for your nearest NHS library.
18. Thank you for listening
Any questions?
Contact for clinical librarian services: mary.skingley@nhs.net
