Databases Evidence-based Practice/CPD
This site is maintained and hosted by Discovery Library, Derriford Hospital and gives details of selected content available to
Neurology, Neurosurgery & Neurosciences
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 10/12/2018 (click title to check availability)
Splittgerber R. (2019) Snell’s clinical neuroanatomy. 8th ed. Philadelphia; London : Wolters Kluwer.
New ebook content added 10/12/2018
Nanda, A. (2019) Complications in neurosurgery. Edinburgh: Elsevier.
Small, J. (2019) Neuroradiology: spectrum and evolution of disease. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier.
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account to access (register here)
New print content added 27/11/2018 (click title to check availability)
Levitt, S. Addison, A. (2019) Treatment of cerebral palsy and motor delay. 6th ed. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell.
New ebook content added 22/11/2018
Cristian, A. (2019) Central nervous system cancer rehabilitation. St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier.
Freedman, K. (2018) Challenging neuropathic pain syndromes. St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier.
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account to access (register here)
New print content added 19/11/2018 (click title to check availability)
Husain, M. and Schott, J. M. (2016) Oxford textbook of cognitive neurology and dementia. Oxford: Oxford university Press.
Creutzfeldt, C. J. et al (2019) Neuropalliative care : a guide to improving the lives of patients and families affected by neurologic disease. Switzerland : Springer.
Nair, K. P. S. et al (2019) Neurorehabilitation therapy and therapeutics. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
Databases (handout)
Search the NHS healthcare databases:
AMED- topics for allied health including neurorehabiitation
British Nursing Index (BNI)- incl topics for neuro nurses,
CINAHL- international nursing & allied health incl neuro nursing & rehabilitation staff
EMBASE- European biomedicine- good for pharmacology & drug therapy & science
Health Business Elite- all aspects of health service management and organisation
HMIC- health service management & organisation incl grey literature
MEDLINE- most medical/surgical topics incl neurology & neurosurgery
PsycINFO- psychology & psychiatry incl psychological aspects of trauma/brain injury, neuropsychiatry & neuropsychology
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 where the print journal can be found within 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:.
- ClinicalKey – clinical insight search tool which also gives access to over 1100 electronic books and 500 journals and other fulltext resources
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account (register here)
- Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS)– provided by NICE. Summaries of best practice for >300 primary care presentations, incl neurological specialty.
- Cochrane Library– collection of databases (details here) containing different types of high-quality, independent evidence such as Systematic Reviews, RCTs and Health Technology Assessments.
- Elearning for Health (ELfH) -Health Education England’s suite of high quality content free of charge training (topics incl. Epilepsy, TIA) in partnership with the NHS and Professional Bodies.
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account (register here)
- NICE Evidence– access to authoritative clinical & non-clinical evidence/best practice incl. Neurological topics through web-based portal- provided by NICE.
- TRIP Database– clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice.
- UpToDate– ‘an evidence-based clinical decision support resource authored by physicians to help healthcare practitioners make the best decisions at the point of care’. Note you will need a University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Athens account (register here).
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 specialty ejournals are 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 neurology, neurosurgery & neuroscience 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
