Databases Evidence-based Practice/CPD
This site is maintained and hosted by Discovery Library, Derriford Hospital
and gives details of selected content available to
Microbiology, Virology, Communicable/Infectious Diseases and Infection Control
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 print content added 29/08/2018 (click title to check availability)
Wright, W. (2018) Essentials of clinical infectious diseases. 2nd ed. New York: Demos Medical.
Mertz, D., Smaill, F. and Daneman, N. (2018) Evidence-based infectious diseases. 3rd ed. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
New ebook content added 16/08/18
Cohen, J. (2017) Infectious Diseases, 4th ed. Elsevier.
Goering, R.V. (2019) Mims’ Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 6th ed. Edinburgh: Elsevier.
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account to access (register here)
Databases (handout)
Search the NHS healthcare databases:
AMED- topics for allied health professionals
British Nursing Index (BNI)- incl topics for IPC nurses and care staff
CINAHL- international nursing & allied health incl IPC 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 incl microbiology
PsycINFO- health psychology/psychiatry/counselling
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 Infections and Infestations specialty.
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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) -Health Education England’s suite of high quality content free of charge training (topics incl. Antimicrobial Resistance) in partnership with the NHS and Professional Bodies.
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account (register here)
- Elearning for Health (ELfH) -Health Education England’s suite of high quality content free of charge training (topics incl. Antimicrobial Resistance) in partnership with the NHS and Professional Bodies.
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- NICE Evidence– access to authoritative clinical & non-clinical evidence/best practice incl. Infections topics.
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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.
If we don’t hold your required article you can consider making an article request via the library.
Direct links to key speciality ejournals are also listed below.
You should always select to login with OpenAthens first
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
- Local Antibiotic Treatment Guidelines (Android and iOS Apple)
Free and regularly updated. Covers all on the aide memoir and most of what is on the full guideline - NICE apps for smartphones and tablets (iOS and Android)
-BNF
-BNF for Children (BNFC)
-NICE Guidance
