Databases Evidence-based Practice/CPD
This site is maintained and hosted by Discovery Library and gives details of selected content available in
Oncology and Palliative Care
for staff/students
across the Plymouth, SWASFT & SCAS health community.
Click here to visit our main library website.
You may also wish to visit our Haematology library page
If you have problems or comments/suggestions about resources please
phone 39111 or email library.mailbox@nhs.net marking FAO Laura.
NHS England COVID-19 Specialty guides
Oncology guides
Palliative care guides
NICE COVID-19 Rapid guideline
Managing COVID-19
Systemic anticancer
Radiotherapy
Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland
COVID-19 guidance
COVID-19 daily alert research bulletin
Public Health England Knowledge and Library Services produce a daily alert containing links to research and news on the latest coronavirus outbreak.
If you would like to receive this email alert, which contains latest research articles and news from government departments, please contact libraries@phe.gov.uk.
They also have created the Finding the evidence: Coronavirus page.
NEW CONTENT
31/08/2021 New ebook content added
Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account (register here)
Databases (GUIDES AND VIDEOS)
Search the NHS healthcare databases:
AMED- covers topics for allied health professions
British Nursing Index (BNI)- primarily of use for nurses but also includes allied health, CINAHL- international nursing & allied health
EMBASE- European biomedicine– good for pharmacology & drug therapy
EMCARE-international nursing & allied health
HMIC- health service management & organisation incl grey literature
MEDLINE- most health topics including pre-hospital and emergency care
PsycINFO- psychology & psychiatry including psychological aspects of trauma/injury
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 the 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 and other resources available to help inform patient care or support your study including:
BMJ Best Practice (don’t use Internet Explorer, choose alternative browser)
Evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion offering step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account (register here).
When prompted, set up a personal account to download free App
BNF and BNF for Children–should work automatically on NHS networked machine, if outside NHS network login with NHS Athens account.
Click here to find out about the free BNF/BNFC App.
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 the current evidence base & practical guidance on best practice for >300 primary care presentations, incl Cancer (suspected)
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. COVID-19 programme Cancer in the Community, Advanced Radiotherapy, End of Life Care) 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 and best practice through a web-based portal, provided by NICE, incl Cancer topics.
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
Full A-Z list of all journals– you will need an NHS Athens account- click here to register.
Selected Oncology and Palliative Care journals below
If we don’t hold your required article you can consider making an article request via the library.
Books (guide)
The majority of Oncology print books held at Discovery Library will be found on shelf QZ. There are guides on the ends of book shelving to help you identify sections.
Search our print and electronic book holdings.
Note- you will need an NHS Athens login to to access ebooks.
This is a regional NHS catalogue, so in location select ‘Plymouth, Derriford Hospital, PLY’ to limit your search to books held here.
You can also log in and renew your books here (if you have not already made a pin number for your library account follow the instructions on screen).
If we don’t have the book you require you can consider making a book request. (Service for registered borrowers, undertaking NHS work. Registration forms are available here).
Selected oncology ebooks- click title to login with Athens account. If asked you should always select to login with OpenAthens
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