Databases Evidence-based Practice/CPD
This site is maintained and hosted by Discovery Library, Derriford Hospital
and gives details of selected content available to
Cardiac, Vascular, Thoracic & Respiratory medical & surgical services
staff & students on placement across the Plymouth health community.
Click here to visit our main library website.
If you have problems or comments/suggestions about resources please
phone 39111 or email library.mailbox@nhs.net marking FAO Laura.
NEW CONTENT
New ebook content added 11/09/18
Korczyk, D. and Kaye, G. (2017) Fast facts: Heart failure. 2nd ed. Abingdon: Health Press.
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account to access (register here)
New print content added 29/08/2018 (click title to check availability)
Valchanov, K., Jones, N. and Hogue, C. (2018) Core topics in cardiothoracic critical care. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bhattacharya, V., Stansby, G., Goldberg, A. and Stansby, G. (2018) Postgraduate vascular surgery: a candidate’s guide to the FRCS and board exams. 2nd ed. New Jersey; London: World Scientific.
New print content added 15/08/2018 (click title to check availability)
LoCicero III, J. and Shields, T. (2019) Shields’ general thoracic surgery. 8th ed. Philadelphia; London: Wolters Kluwer.
Databases (handout)
Search the NHS healthcare databases:
AMED- topics for allied health professionals
British Nursing Index (BNI)- incl topics for nurses and care staff
CINAHL- international nursing & allied health incl nurses and care staff
EMBASE- European biomedicine- good for pharmacology & drug therapy
Health Business Elite- all aspects of health service management & organisation
HMIC- health service management & organisation incl grey literature
MEDLINE- most medical/surgical topics
PsycINFO- useful for health psychology/recovery
Note- you will need an NHS Athens login.
Databases contain bibliographic records i.e. references. Whilst you won’t have fulltext access to all the articles, for some journals there will be a link to online access or details of library print holding. If we don’t hold your required article you can consider making an article request via the library.
See our main library website for details of our information skills training programme and literature searching support services.
Evidence Based Practice and CPD
A range of evidence-based resources are available to help inform patient care including:
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- BNF and BNF for Children–should work automatically on NHS networked machine, if not login via these BNFor BNF for Children links with NHS Athens account.
Click here to find out about the free BNF Apps.
- BNF and BNF for Children–should work automatically on NHS networked machine, if not login via these BNFor BNF for Children links with NHS Athens account.
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- ClinicalKey – clinical insight search tool which also gives access to over 1100 electronic books and 500 journals and multimedia resources
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account (register here)
- ClinicalKey – clinical insight search tool which also gives access to over 1100 electronic books and 500 journals and multimedia resources
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- Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS)– provided by NICE. Summaries of the current evidence base & practical guidance on best practice for >300 primary care presentations, including Cardiovascular & Respiratory conditions.
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- Cochrane Library– collection of databases (details here) containing different types of high-quality, independent evidence such as Systematic Reviews, RCTs and Health Technology Assessments.
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- Elearning for Health (ELfH) (topics)-Health Education England’s suite of high quality content free of charge training in partnership with the NHS and Professional Bodies.
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account (register here)
- Elearning for Health (ELfH) (topics)-Health Education England’s suite of high quality content free of charge training in partnership with the NHS and Professional Bodies.
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- NICE Evidence– access to authoritative clinical & non-clinical evidence/best practice incl. Cardiovascular & Respiratory conditions.
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- TRIP Database– clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice.
Journals
To see the full range of journals that you have access to online & in print at the library click here – you will need an NHS Athens account- click here to register.
Direct links to key speciality ejournals are also listed below.
You should always select to login with OpenAthens first
If we don’t hold your required article you can consider making an article request via the library.
Books (handout)
Check our print and electronic book holdings at http://www.swims.nhs.uk/
This is a regional NHS catalogue so select ‘just in these libraries’ or click here to limit your search to books held in Plymouth.
You can also renew your books here.
Ebooks
Selected specialty content from 2010 onwards – click title & login with NHS Athens
Apps
- NICE apps for smartphones and tablets (iOS and Android)
-BNF
-BNF for Children (BNFC)
-NICE Guidance
