Databases Evidence-based Practice/CPD
This site is maintained and hosted by Discovery Library and gives details of selected content available to
Oncology and Palliative Care
staff & students on placement across the Plymouth 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.
NEW CONTENT
New print content added 22/05/2018 (click title to check availability)
Mannix, K. (2017) With the end in mind: dying, death and wisdom in the age of denial. London: William Collins.
New print content added 15/05/2018 (click title to check availability)
Twycross, R., Wilcock, A. and Howard, P. (2017) Palliative care formulary. 6th ed. Nottingham: Palliativedrugs.com.
New ebook content added 24/04/18
Harsh, G. and Vaz-Guimaraes, F. (2018) Chordomas and chondrosarcomas of the skull base and spine. 2nd ed. London: Academic Press.
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account to access (register here)
Databases (handout)
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- primarily European biomedicine- good for pharmacology & drug therapy
Health Business Elite- all aspects of health service management and organisation
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 where the print journal can be found within 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:
- 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. 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
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 online journals are also listed below.
You should always select to login with OpenAthens
If we don’t hold your required article you can consider making an article request via the library.
Books (handout)
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.
Check our print and electronic book holdings at http://www.swims.nhs.uk/ -you will need an NHS Athens account to access ebooks- click here to register.
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.
Selected oncology ebooks- click title to login with Athens account. If asked you should always select to login with OpenAthens
Apps
- NICE apps for smartphones and tablets (iOS and Android)
-BNF
-BNF for Children (BNFC)
-NICE Guidance
