Exploring NLH resources:

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• Exploring NLH resources
• hands-on session for Library Assistants
• February / March 2008

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Objectives of this overview session

• To increase awareness of some of the resources
  currently available on NLH
• For users
• For library staff
• To have an opportunity to explore some of these
  resources and be clearer about when to use them

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RESOURCES

• Evidence Based Reviews
• Guidance
• Specialist Libraries
• Books, journals and bibliographic databases under
  development launch date 1st April 2008
• Images
• For Patients
• Drugs under development

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(1) Click on Evidence based reviews to get
adescription of this resource and note the link
to the Cochrane Library

• Selected resources providing the best
• available evidence for effective health care

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(1) Evidence based reviews

• Exercise
• Search the Cochrane Library Database of
  Systematic Reviews for resources on asthma

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(2) Click on Guidance to get a description of
this resource

• Clinical guidelines are defined (by the US
  Institute of Medicine) as "systematically
  developed statements designed to assist
  practitioners and patients on decisions about
  appropriate health care for specific clinical
  circumstances
• They offer health professionals
  recommendations that are based on the best
  available evidence, which will help them identify
  and implement appropriate patient decision
  pathways. Care pathways are both a tool and a
  concept that embed guidelines, protocols and
  locally agreed, evidence-based, patient-centred
  best practice, into everyday use for the
  individual patient.

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(2) Guidance

• Exercise
• Search UK Guidance for asthma
• Open the full text of
• British guideline on the management of asthma
• Publisher SIGN, British Thoracic Society
• Publication Date 01 July 2007
• Publication Type Care Guideline
• Source National Library of Guidelines

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(3) Click on Specialist Libraries to get a
description of this collection of resources

• Specialist Libraries contain collections of
  clinical and non-clinical resources within
  specialty themes.
• They are designed to
• Be led by the NHS
• Work closely with library and information
  networks
• Develop as communities of practice
• Develop quality and technical standards
• Be based on the information needs of users

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(3) Specialist Libraries

• Exercise
• Which Specialist Libraries would you search for
  resources on asthma?
• Which Specialist Libraries are most relevant to
  your area of work?

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(4) Books, Journals and databases new NLH search
2.0 interface available from 1 April 2008Need
to be logged in using Athens ID to access these
resources
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(5) Click on Images to get a description of
this resource

• Includes
• DermIS
• DermIS.net is the largest dermatology information
  service available on the internet. It offers
  elaborate image atlases (DOIA and PeDOIA)
  complete with diagnoses and differential
  diagnoses, case reports and additional
  information on almost all skin diseases.
• Gray's Anatomy
• The Bartleby.com edition of Grays Anatomy of the
  Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravingsmany
  in colorfrom the classic 1918 publication, as
  well as a subject index with 13,000 entries
  ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule
  of Zinn.
• DermNet NZ
• DermNet is the website of the New Zealand
  Dermatological Society Incorporated. We aim to
  present authoritative facts about the skin for
  consumers and health professionals. The site was
  launched in March 1996.
• Trauma.org
• Largest Internet Trauma Care Site - Covers all
  aspects of injury prevention, evaluation and
  management. Includes an email Discussion group,
  Conference listings, Trauma Imagebank, Fellowship
  database. Home of Trauma Moulage on the Internet.
  
• ECG Library
• 12-lead ECG library Homepage. A collection of
  electrocardiograms. Learn electrocardiography by
  seeing examples of the various abnormalities.
• Virtual Pediatric Hospital
• Virtual Pediatric Hospital is a digital library
  of pediatric information

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(5) Images

• Exercise
• Search for images of asthma

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(6) Click on For Patients to get a description of
this resource

• These resources are selected for their value to
  patient and non-clinicians. Over 100 sites
  accredited by NHS Direct Online are searched
  here. You can also search and browse the NHS
  Health Encyclopaedia for patient information
  print-outs.

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(6) For Patients

• Exercise
• Search the Health Encyclopaedia for asthma can
  you find a patient information leaflet on asthma?

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Other highlights

• A series of NLH Resource guides is being
  developed and will be available in early March
• Other services from NLH
• My Library -
• NLH HEALTH NEWSHitting the Headlines

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My Library log in to customise

• Personalisation - customise National Library for
  Health to suit users needs.
• Publicising your library - RSS facility so that
  you can keep your library users informed about
  your services
• Customise the search to remembers your search
  strategy and the resources that you prefer to
  search
• Home Library the Athens username identifies the
  library closest to your work base and
  automatically sets it as their home library, with
  a link to the library web-site.
• Find A Library type in free text, or postcode,
  to find details of health care libraries closest
  to them.
• My Links library users can store their favourite
  bookmarks and share them with colleagues.
• My Feeds helps library users keep up-to-date by
  storing RSS feeds.
• My Athens all national and local electronic
  resources are listed here.

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Hitting the Headlines

• NLH HEALTH NEWS Hitting the Headlines provides
  the evidence to support newspaper stories.
• The archive is very useful for tracking changes
  in the evidence, for example the press coverage
  on the MMR jab.
• Hitting the Headlines contract ends 31/03/08 but
  we are planning to link into the Behind the
  Headlines facility (NHS Choices) which offers a
  similar service.

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NLH For Librarians under development
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NLH For Librarians under development

• Will be renamed to include all staff who might
  might find it useful inc. IT notably e-learning
  specialists
• Currently is not searchable so users have to
  understand its file structure.

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NLH For Librarians under development

• Exercise
• Explore the file structure
• locate the staff development pages and find the
  guidance on Certification

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Questions

• I know theres a Cochrane review on holding
  chambers and asthma. Whats the site address for
  the full text review?
• I want the site address for the recent guideline
  on Commissioning services for obesity.
• How many specialist libraries are there? Whats
  the site address for them?
• Im a mental health specialist. Where can I get
  up to date information on Schizophrenia?
• Im doing my first ever session for a mixed group
  of students on reading an ECG. Where can I get
  some good ECG images from?
• My patient has asked me for a BMI (body mass
  index)? I need one from a reputable source. Can
  you give me a web site address for one?

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Post-it Evaluation

• Write down the most useful thing that you have
  learned about NLH RESOURCES, NLH HEALTH NEWS, My
  Library and For Librarians