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Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values. It means that when health professionals make a treatment decision with their patient, they base it on their clinical expertise, the preferences of the patient, and the best available evidence.
Evidence-based practice is a cyclical process which includes:
We can also provide training on EBP in your workplace. Please note that we also have access to a network of Clinical Librarians so can sometimes obtain unpublished information such as work and initiatives from other NHS trusts. Health Education England (HEE) have recently purchased lots of new knowledge resources for all NHS staff which you now have access to via the Library & Knowledge Service at East Cheshire.
The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is a discovery system which connects NHS staff and learners seamlessly to a range of high-quality knowledge and evidence resources all in one place. It offers an intuitive search experience for quick searches and options for in-depth searches. It includes:
Login with your NHS Athens account for full-text access to all the resources. After March 2022 HDAS will no longer be available for database searches. Instead searches will need to be conducted in the native supplier interfaces via Ovid, EBSCO and ProQuest. Different databases are available from the suppliers and searches may need to be conducted on multiple platforms. Any saved searches and alerts will need to be migrated to the new platforms. Please get in touch with the library and we can help you through this process. HEE has also procured LibKey for the NHS in England. This includes LibKey Nomad, a free web browser extension which provides quick, easy access to our full-text content. If you are searching scholarly journals, Google Scholar, PubMed, Wikipedia, or a variety of other scholarly sites the LibKey Nomad extension will show you if the article is available via our full-text subscriptions, with a button to directly access the PDF. If an article isn't available in full-text LibKey Nomad will provide a pre-populated form allowing you to seamlessly request the article from the library. LibKey Nomad is currently available for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave and Vivaldi. Once downloaded, select 'East Cheshire NHS Trust' in the list of organisations. For more information, training or help to move your searches please get in touch: Library & Knowledge Service Tel: 01625 66 1362 Email: ecn-tr.stafflibrary@nhs.net The Library & Knowledge Service would like to welcome all the new medical students who have recently joined East Cheshire NHS Trust on placement. As part of the support offered to you while you are here, you will have access to a variety of high quality, evidence based resources. These include:
UpToDate UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored, clinical decision support tool. It aims to synthesise all the evidence on any clinical topic and is literally ‘up to date’ to within a month of the latest research published. To access for the first time, do so via the windows menu on a Trust PC, this will give you access without a username and password. Once in, register for your own account so you can use it via an app or from home. BMJ Best Practice BMJ Best Practice is also a Clinical Decision Support tool, although without the coverage provided by UpToDate. The information is presented differently and some people prefer it. You can login with your Athens credentials (use your email address and your Athens password) – all links to our resources can be found here. Knowledge Hubs If you don’t know where to start or you just want to browse, our Knowledge Hubs are great. All the resources (journals, apps, websites, e-learning) relating to your clinical specialty or staff group, in one place. Knowledge Share Sign up to Knowledge Share and get abstracts emailed to you every 2 weeks. The more specific you can be, the more targeted your alerts. The emails contain links to relevant high level evidence – articles, reports, reviews – so you won’t be inundated with primary research articles. Sign up here. Clinical Librarian Services Need evidence but don’t have time to look? Ask the library to do an evidence/ literature search. Please say whether it is for a clinical audit, a presentation or patient care as this will determine the level of search we perform. Do say if your search is urgent and we’ll try and get something to you within 24 hours (or ASAP). Request a search by emailing Holly Cook on: holly.cook3@nhs.net Bulletins and Updates The Library produces a variety of bulletins and updates. The bulletins are monthly links to commercially published, high level evidence briefings and the Updates are a selection of primary research abstracts (about 50) and are published twice yearly. Please find more information on these publications here. Contact us for more information! Library & Knowledge Service Tel: 01625 66 1362 Email: ecn-tr.stafflibrary@nhs.net NHS Library & Knowledge specialists give health professionals the gift of time
A new report has been commissioned by Health Education England which clearly demonstrates the valuable input and timesaving benefits library & knowledge services brings to the NHS. The report titled 'The Gift of Time', shines a light on the specialist expertise of health librarians and knowledge specialists, who make the gathering of information as easy as possible for healthcare professionals, relieving the burden of sourcing and synthesising evidence while enabling NHS organisations to meet their statutory obligations to get evidence into practice across the service. https://www.hee.nhs.uk/.../value-proposition-gift-time “Librarians are probably not the first role that spring to mind when people think about the NHS. However the part they play, and the specialist expertise they provide, give clinicians some of the most important tools they have to treat patients effectively – information, and time. All the evidence shows that the right knowledge services improve outcomes for patients." (Patrick Mitchell, Director of Innovation and Transformation, HEE). How your library can help you ... Let us do the ‘heavy lifting’ for you by undertaking evidence searches on your behalf and helping you to keep up to date in your specialist area of work. Contact us to discuss your needs and how we can help! Library & Knowledge Service Tel: 01625 66 1362 Email: ecn-tr.stafflibrary@nhs.net The library has a variety of ways to help you to keep up-to-date in your areas of interest, clinical and non-clinical.
We also have a daily bulletin on ‘health management news’, a monthly ‘Making People Count’ HR bulletin, monthly 'Equality & Diversity' bulletin and ad hoc ‘Covid19’ bulletins. You can now access these by simply scanning the QR code relevant to bulletins of interest. These are available on the library noticeboards in the canteen corridor and the Undercroft (and are also on display in the library). Ask for more information or to sign up! Contact us for more information: Email: ecn-tr.StaffLibrary@nhs.net Phone: 01625 661362 October is Health Literacy Month. Health literacy is the ability to access, understand, appraise and use health information to make health-related decisions. In the UK, we know from research by Gill Rowlands that 43% of adults struggle with text-based health information; rising to 61% if the health information includes numbers as well as text. In Cheshire East this is estimated to be 35% for text-based information, rising to 54% for information with text and numbers. NHS staff need to be aware of health literacy issues to support effective access to information. The Library & Knowledge Service have resources and toolkits you can use to improve your communication skills and awareness of health literacy issues. Check out the Health Literacy Knowledge Hub on the library website.
On Monday 19th October 12:30-1:15pm HEE and BMJ are jointly delivering a free lunch time webinar for Health Literacy Month 2020 which will highlight some of the health literacy challenges that lead to poor outcomes. It will also demonstrate ways that clinicians can use BMJ Best Practice to support shared decision-making and informed consent. Sign up here: https://healtheducationyh.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/health-literacy-and-patient-information-online-booking and you will be sent a MS Teams invite a few days before the event. Contact us for more information: Email: ecn-tr.StaffLibrary@nhs.net Phone: 01625 661362 The Library & Knowledge Service would like to welcome all the new doctors who joined the Trust in August. As part of the support offered to you while you are here, you will have access to a variety of high quality, evidence based resources. These include:
UpToDate UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored, clinical decision support tool. It aims to synthesise all the evidence on any clinical topic and is literally ‘up to date’ to within a month of the latest research published. To access for the first time, do so via the windows menu on a Trust PC, this will give you access without a username and password. Once in, register for your own account so you can use it via an app or from home. BMJ Best Practice BMJ Best Practice is also a Clinical Decision Support tool, although without the coverage provided by UpToDate. The information is presented differently and some people prefer it. You can login with your Athens credentials (use your email address and your Athens password) – all links to our resources can be found here. Knowledge Hubs If you don’t know where to start or you just want to browse, our Knowledge Hubs are great. All the resources (journals, apps, websites, e-learning) relating to your clinical speciality or staff group, in one place. KnowledgeShare Sign up to KnowledgeShare and get abstracts emailed to you every 2 weeks. The more specific you can be, the more targeted your alerts. The emails contain links to relevant high level evidence – articles, reports, reviews – so you won’t be inundated with primary research articles. Sign up here. Clinical Librarian Services Need evidence but don’t have time to look? Ask the library to do an evidence/literature search. Please say whether it is for a clinical audit, a presentation or patient care as this will determine the level of search we perform. Do say if your search is urgent and we’ll try and get something to you within 24 hours (or ASAP). Request a search using this form or by emailing holly.cook3@nhs.net Bulletins and Updates The Library produces a variety of bulletins and updates. The bulletins are monthly links to commercially published, high level evidence briefings and the Updates are a selection of primary research abstracts (about 50) and are published twice yearly. Contact the library for more information: Email: ecn-tr.StaffLibrary@nhs.net Tel: 01625 661362 |
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