Falls Awareness Week

Age UK National Falls Awareness Week

21st - 25th June, 2010

• Falls among elderly people cost the NHS more than £4.6 million a day, new analysis found.
• Up to one in three (3.4 million) people over 65 fall each year in the UK, existing figures show.
• Almost half of all falls are among the over-80s, half of whom fall again in the following year.

from BBC News Falls amongst the elderly cost the NHS millions daily

Perhaps this Map of Medicine Falls Pathway can help?

Or an overview of the best quality evidence from NHS Evidence , or this more focused perspective from the NHS Evidence Specialist Collection: Later Life

 Contact Isla at the Medical Library if you'd like support in getting the best from these and other information resources.

Medical Images from TRIP

A pictures is worth a thousand words....

so where to get the best images?

TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice) has got a database of over 113,000 images - and also pulls from Google images.

On the front page of results you'll see the "four top medical images for a given search term on the main results page. We then allow users to 'See more images' and as you'll see from the image below we automatically import Google images to enhance the selection"

In addition to the images, TRIP is also a great place to "skim the cream" since it quickly find answers to clinical questions using the best available evidence, using a clear.
And it's so easy to use! Give it a try today.

NHS Evidence Update: Oesophago-gastric cancers

Oesophago-gastric cancers

This is the second Annual Evidence Update on oesophago-gastric cancers prepared jointly by NHS Evidence - cancer and NHS Evidence - gastroenterology and liver diseases.

It includes an editorial by Dr Jamshed Bamanji (MBBS, PhD, FRCR, FRCP, Head of the Department, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, T5, University College Hospital)

 

The update of the Annual Evidence Update on oesophago-gastric cancers provides an opportunity to present an up-to-date comprehensive collection of systematic reviews and guidance that have been published since June 2009 and have been subject to rigorous selection criteria. Information is organised by topic areas and links are provided within each topic to the relevant systematic reviews, guidelines and patient information.

The AEU includes:

• Clinical commentary by Dr. Jamshed Bomanji on The role of FDG PET in Oesophago-Gastric Cancer
• Clinical introduction by Dr Chris Alcock
• Results of 2010 Annual Evidence Update on Oesophageal cancers
• Results of 2010 Annual Evidence Update on Stomach cancer
• Patient Information Resources for Oesophago-gastric cancers
• Additional Resources for Oesophago-gastric cancers

Journal Citation Reports 2009 now available

Journal Citation Reports®(JCR®) offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, JCR helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals.

Available at wok.mimas.ac.uk using University of Cambridge RAVEN login

NHS Evidence Update: Macular Degeneration; Homeopathy

Age Related Macular Degeneration
 from NHS Evidence - eyes and vision


Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is one of the commonest causes of certifiable visual impairment in the UK. The 2010 Evidence Update focuses on the management of neovascular (wet) AMD and highlights the:

• key evidence base underpinning current interventions (key randomised controlled trials and current guidance);
• new evidence that is likely to inform a change in clinical practice;
• emerging evidence for Lucentis, Avastin and combination treatments from key RCTs that have recently reported at scientific conferences but not yet published in peer reviewed literature;
• current uncertainties in the effectiveness of treatments.

 Commentaries have been provided by Robin Hamilton, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon and Praveen Patel, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and by Angela Reidy and Darwin Minassian, EpiVision.

 

Homeopathy
from NHS Evidence - complementary and alternative medicine

 

The NHS Evidence - complementary and alternative medicine specialist collection will present an Annual Evidence Update (AEU) on Homeopathy from 14 June. This update will provide a summary of systematic reviews, meta-analyses, RCTs and other relevant studies published in the twelve months since the 2009 AEU on Homeopathy.

A review by another other name......

Review articles are useful pieces of work, which are often percieved as being relatively straightforward to do - desk based research, not requiring ethical approval, etc.

But what is a review?

According to a paper out today, it could be any one of 14 different things.

Health Info Libr J. 2009 Jun;26(2):91-108.

A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies.
Grant MJ, Booth A.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The expansion of evidence-based practice across sectors has lead to an increasing variety of review types. However, the diversity of terminology used means that the full potential of these review types may be lost amongst a confusion of indistinct and misapplied terms. The objective of this study is to provide descriptive insight into the most common types of reviews, with illustrative examples from health and health information domains.
METHODS: Following scoping searches, an examination was made of the vocabulary associated with the literature of review and synthesis (literary warrant). A simple analytical framework -- Search, AppraisaL, Synthesis and Analysis (SALSA) -- was used to examine the main review types.
RESULTS: Fourteen review types and associated methodologies were analysed against the SALSA framework, illustrating the inputs and processes of each review type. A description of the key characteristics is given, together with perceived strengths and weaknesses. A limited number of review types are currently utilized within the health information domain.
CONCLUSIONS: Few review types possess prescribed and explicit methodologies and many fall short of being mutually exclusive. Notwithstanding such limitations, this typology provides a valuable reference point for those commissioning, conducting, supporting or interpreting reviews, both within health information and the wider health care domain.

PubMed ID  : 19490148

(paper available in full-text on University computers, or using University RAVEN login)

NHS Evidence Update: Drug Misuse; Neurological Conditions

Drug Misuse
From NHS Evidence - National Library for Public Health

This evidence update covers drugs misuse treatment in offender populations with a special focus on female offenders. It is an update of the evidence from March 2009 through April 2010.
 
Neurological Conditions
From NHS Evidence - Neurological Conditions

This bulletin aims to update you on:

• Interesting items recently added to the collection
• The latest journal articles as highlighted by our Clinical Lead and Topic Advisors
• Upcoming events of interest
• What the project team are currently doing

NHS Evidence Update: Atrial Fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation   From NHS Evidence - cardiovascular

This update for health professionals and patients will present significant advances in knowledge about atrial fibrillation since our last update in June 2009. Topics will include medication, cardioversion, prevention of stroke, catheter ablation therapy and surgical treatment. This year we've also identified new systematic reviews on genetics and atrial fibrillation. As usual expert summaries with be included on this and the other topics identified to help make sense of the new evidence presented.

Mandatory surveillance weekly reports

"Beginning this week, the Department of Health will be publishing weekly hospital data on MRSA bloodstream infections and C.Difficile between March and May 2010. Previously, data was only published monthly and by NHS trust. From early July, infection figures for every NHS hospital in England will be updated on data.gov.uk weekly, giving statistics for each of the previous 12 weeks. This document provides guidance on the collection of data for this new initiative. (Health Protection Agency - publications)"

From NHS Evidence - Health Management current awareness bulletin. Permalink

Feedback from last year's LibQUAL+ survey of Medical Library users

Most readers will recall that in November-December 2009 we ran an online survey, LibQUAL+, asking you what you thought of us. Two other branches of the University Library - the Central Science Library and the Moore Library - ran their own LibQUAL+ surveys at the same time.

First of all, we are very grateful to the more than three hundred readers who took the time and trouble to complete the Medical Library survey, and in many cases to record additional comments.

Since the end of the survey we have been busy analysing the results (which are processed for us by the US-based organisation that manages LibQUAL+ as a management tool for libraries worldwide) and deciding how best to address the issues raised. This report summarises the picture that has emerged, with our responses and the actions that we plan to take or have already taken.

General observations

In overall terms users seem to be reasonably happy with what we provide. The survey included three top-level "satisfaction" questions and asked respondents to give us a rating out of 9 (1=bad, 9=good). Our scores were as follows, compared with the average 2009 score for all UK academic libraries.

• "In general, I am satisfied with the way in which I am treated at the library":
  Med Lib = 7.78 (UK average = 7.22) 
• "In general, I am satisfied with library support for my learning, research, and/or teaching needs":
  Med Lib = 7.31 (UK average = 6.74)
• "How would you rate the overall quality of the service provided by the library?":
  Med Lib = 7.45 (UK average = 6.96)

Analysis of detailed survey data

The survey questions were structured to reflect three broad areas of interest, covering (a) the way library staff deal with readers, (b) the resources we provide, and (c) the library as a place.

It was clear from the results that there was a consistently high level of satisfaction with the way library staff deal with readers, while the library as a place attracted a more neutral rating. By comparison, the resources we provide came in for heavier criticism, especially with regard to inadequate provision of electronic journals.

The personal information provided by each respondent allowed us to analyse these answers in more detail by user groups (student, allied health, medical staff, etc.). This exposed some significant differences in the way we are regarded by the various user categories, with non-clinical staff emerging as our most satisfied clients and allied health staff as our least satisfied.

The structured survey results were complemented by the free-text comments. We were impressed by the generally thoughtful and constructive contributions made by respondents here, and many of the comments helped to amplify the data gathered from the structured survey (though some comments also appeared to contradict the data analysis!). Putting the results of the survey and the comments together, we have been able to identify a list of issues that require a response from us. In some cases we are able to act immediately, in others the problem raises matters of policy or other broader issues that we need to take up with other bodies; and in yet other cases the responses indicate a misunderstanding of what is on offer, and thus a need for us to explain more clearly what we do and why.

A more detailed list of the issues that emerged, together with our responses, may be found here.

Arcadia Seminar: Death 2.0: What Becomes of Digital Assets after Death?

Part of the series of Arcadia seminars

Professor Lilian Edwards, Department of Law, University of Sheffield


Tuesday 01 June 2010, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College, Old Combination Room (OCR).

Please email your intent to attend to Michelle Heydon at mh569@cam.ac.uk.

Abstract


Death seems to be discussed in web 2.0 circles only when it is tragic (eg internet suicide clusters) or in some other newsworthy (eg the Lori Drew online harassment case ). Yet if Facebook alone claim some 400 million subscribers, then it stands to reason that some of them will be reaching their final end as I write in quite ordinary ways. Yet the law is vague in the extreme (and varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction) on who would “own” a user’s Facebook profile in that sad event; and more significantly, what rights either the deceased or the heirs might have against Facebook to demand that the profile be deleted, maintained as a going concern, exported or preserved(“memorialised”). Nor is this problem confined to Facebook. Digital assets will be increasingly important as items in succession – and as cultural heritage – as the web 2.0 generation ages; and might include not only profiles on social networking sites, but also reputations and identities on money-making sites like eBay, photos on sites like Flickr and even user preferences on sites like Last.fm. Yet so far little or no attention has been paid to the legal nature and transmission of digital assets, except within the limited (if glamorous) domain of virtual property in virtual worlds and MMORP Gs. Neither are all digital assets likely to fall into categories of recognisable intellectual property (IP) protection. This paper seeks to investigate this domain, having regard to the interests of user, relatives, platform and especially, the public interest in preservation of online cultural heritage.

About the speaker

Professor Edwards’s principal research interests are in the law relating to the Internet, the Web and new technologies, with a European and comparative focus. She has co-edited three bestselling collections on Law and the Internet (Hart Publishing, 1997, 2000 and 2009) with Charlotte Waelde, and a third collection of essays—The New Legal Framework for E-Commerce—in Europe was published in 2005. Her work in on-line consumer privacy won the Barbara Wellbery Memorial Prize in 2004 for the best solution to the problem of privacy and transglobal data flows. She worked at Strathclyde University from 1986-1988 and Edinburgh University from 1989 to 2006 before moving to become Chair of Internet Law at Southampton from 2006-2008. She is Associate Director, and was co-founder, of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Centre for IP and Technology Law, funded from 2002-2012. She has taught IT, e-commerce and Internet law at undergraduate and postgraduate level since 1996 and been involved with law and artificial intelligence (AI) since 1985. She has been a visiting scholar and invited lecturer to universities in the USA , Canada, Australia, Mexico, and Latin America and has undertaken consultancy for the the European Parliament, the European commission and McAfee.


Please email your intent to attend to Michelle Heydon at mh569@cam.ac.uk.

NHS Evidence Update: Menorrhagia

Menorrhagia

from the NHS Evidence - women's health)

"NHS Evidence - women's health is holding its next Annual Evidence Update from Tuesday 1 June. The update aims to provide clinicians with the most up-to-date knowledge on the diagnosis and management of heavy menstrual bleeding.

We know that it is very difficult for busy clinicians to keep up-to-date with the huge volume of literature that is published each year and so the women's health specialist collection does this for you so that you don't have to!"

Bank Holiday Monday

The Library will be open from 9am till 6pm, Monday 31st May.

follow up to "student beware"

Following on from the blog about student behaviour on Facebook if you use Facebook, even if you're not a sutdent, privacy is (or should be) a big issue.

You may find this BBC guide to adjusting your Facebook privacy settings and this overview of the issues useful.

NLM's Pill Box - pill identification system

The National Library of Medicine has launched a (beta) service Pillbox to facilitate rapid identification of unknown pills.

"Pillbox was developed to aid in the identification of unknown solid dosage pharmaceuticals. The system combines high-resolution images of tablets and capsules with FDA-approved appearance information (imprint, shape, color, etc.) to enable users to visually search for and identify an unknown solid dosage pharmaceutical.

This system is designed for use by emergency physicians, first responders, other health care providers, Poison Control Center staff, and concerned citizens."

If you've ever used Epocrates, particularly the iPhone app, you'll recognised the easy way it allows you to pick the colour, shape, size and markings of the unknow pill before giving you pictures of the options to chose from.

There's a really good review here , you may find this overview useful:

or you could try it yourself - http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/index.html

Remeber it is still in beta phase.

student beware....

Facebook and the professional behaviours of undergraduate medical students

Au: Jayne Garner and Helen O'Sullivan

The Clinical Teacher  Volume 7 Issue 2, Pages 112 - 115

ABSTRACT

Background: The rapid growth and accessibility of social networking websites has fundamentally changed the way people manage information about their personal and professional lives. In particular, it has been suggested that interaction in virtual communities erodes elements of responsibility, accountability and social trust that build traditionally meaningful communities. The purpose of this study was to investigate how undergraduate medical students use the social network website Facebook, and to identify any unprofessional behaviour displayed online.

Methods: A voluntary anonymous online survey was devised by the University of Liverpool, and emailed to students. Question topics included the use of Facebook, privacy settings, groups relating to the course and professional behaviours. Results were input to spss for analysis.

Results: The response rate was 31 per cent (n = 56). The majority of respondents did have a Facebook account and admitted there were photos they found embarrassing on the site. Over half of the respondents reported they had seen unprofessional behaviour by their colleagues on Facebook. Although students say that they are aware of the UK's General Medical Council (GMC) guidance, unprofessional behaviour is still demonstrated on the site.

Discussion: This research highlights the issue of social networking websites and professionalism amongst medical students. Further guidance from the GMC and medical schools should remind students that images and information placed on social networking sites is in the public domain, and could impact upon their professional reputation and identity.

Journal Watch

From the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine comes the latest issue of Richard Lehman's Journal Watch - "a personal comment on articles from the main medical journals selected for their interest to doctors (and a few others!)"

NHS Evidence Update: Kidney disorders

Proteinuria and estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate

from NHS Evidence - kidney diseases and male urogenital disorders

NHS Evidence - kidney diseases and male urogenital disorders presents its third Annual Evidence Update on Proteinuria and estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR). The 2010 Annual Evidence Update on Proteinuria and eGFR will provide an update with the highest-quality evidence on the following subtopics:

1. Basic science

2. Clinical aspects

3. Management.

Reference Management: so much to learn

Useful overview of various reference management systems is available on Martin Fenner's blog

If you'd like to discuss and have a "play" with some of the tools available (eg Zotero, Mendeley, Endnoteweb or Endnote X2, please contact Isla (phone: 336750 or  email)

NHS Evidence Update: Oral Health

Oral health
from the NHS Evidence - oral health

To mark the start of National Smile Month 2010  NHS Evidence – oral health is presenting an Annual Evidence Update covering all aspects of oral health. The specialist collection team has systematically identified and appraised the best available evidence (systematic reviews) which is presented, along with recently published guidelines. The Update covers the range of oral health topics with commentaries from experts in the field.

Access to new journals

Science translational medicine

Science Translational Medicine Mission:

To promote human health by providing a forum for communication and cross-fertilization among basic, translational, and clinical research practitioners and trainees from all relevant established and emerging disciplines.
"... the creation of a redefined discipline of translational medicine will require the emergence of a new and vibrant community of dedicated scientists, collaborating to fill knowledge gaps and dissolve or circumvent barriers to improved clinical medicine." ~Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Chief Scientific Advisor, Science Translational Medicine

Online only:-

You can access it via ejournals@cambridge (http://sfx7.exlibrisgroup.com/cambridge/az) , or Link to this record:
·URL : http://hooke.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/bib_seek.cgi?cat=ul&bib=4942179 which includes the correct links, using the Library, or other University computers.

Users off-campus should log in using the links provided by the publisher on the web site marked "Institutional login", "Log in via your home institution" or "Shibboleth", and login with their RAVEN password.

NHS Evidence Updates: CAM for asthma, Rhinitis & Skin Cancer

CAM for asthma
 from NHS Evidence - complementary and alternative medicine

The NHS Evidence - complementary and alternative medicine specialist collection will present its 3rd Annual Evidence Update on CAM for Asthma from 4 May. This update will include a list of relevant systematic reviews published between March 2009 and April 2010 and an expert commentary.

Rhinitis
from NHS Evidence - ENT and audiology


The Annual Evidence Update for rhinitis will present a concise collection of emerging research evidence from the past 12 months. Multiple databases have been searched to identify relevant guidelines and systematic reviews, which have undergone quality assessment prior to inclusion. Therapeutic uncertainties have also been updated to highlight priority research topics.

Skin cancer
from NHS Evidence - cancer and NHS Evidence - skin disorders

This is the third Annual Evidence Update on Skin Cancer run jointly by NHS Evidence – cancer and NHS Evidence – skin disorders and published to correspond with Sun Awareness Week. It presents the results of a search for new guidance and systematic reviews that have appeared since last year’s Annual Evidence Update. There will also be expert commentaries discussing the significance of the new evidence in a variety of topic areas. The update of the Annual Evidence Update on skin cancer provides an opportunity to present an up-to-date comprehensive collection of systematic reviews and guidance that have been published since May 2009 and have been subject to rigorous selection criteria. Information is organised by topic areas and links are provided within each topic to the relevant systematic reviews, guidelines and patient information.

Cambridge Postgraduates: Opportunity to win

Cambridge Postgraduates:  Opportunity to win another iPod Nano and more Amazon vouchers

As part of the Arcadia Programme based at the University Library, following successful focus group sessions, postgraduates are being asked to participate in a short follow-up survey answering brief questions about what support they might need developing information skills and using online tools.

Please again get involved in this second survey which will inform future support provided to postgraduates.  

Everyone who completes the survey before May 19th 2010 will be entered into another prize draw to win an iPod Nano and two runner-up prizes of £20 Amazon vouchers.

Go online now to take part.

Last time’s prize draw winners were:
*  iPod Nano: Hayley, Theoretical Chemistry, PhD Year 4
*  £20 Amazon voucher: Emily, Criminology Faculty 2009-10
*  £20 Amazon voucher: Tom, History Faculty 2009-10

Sunday Opening

The Library will be open on Sundays in the run up to the Clinical Students exams:

Open from 2pm till 6pm on the following Sundays:  9th, 16th, 23th, 30th May, and 6th June 2010.

Best of luck to those with exams!

Bank Holiday Monday

Monday 3rd May 2010  -  Bank Holiday

The Library will be open from 9am till 6pm

NHS Evidence Update: Pain, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Support in Later Life

Pain
From the NHS Evidence - Palliative Care Specialist Collection


The 2010 Annual Evidence Update (AEU) on pain in supportive and palliative care is the fourth in our series. Previous AEUs have covered general aspects of pain management in cancer and chronic diseases as well as special situations like pain in dementia and specific treatments such as cannabinoids. This year we are revisiting general pain management in both cancer and non-cancer chronic disease patients to allow clinicians and researchers to keep up to date on the rapid changes in this area.

Rheumatoid Arthritis
from the NHS Evidence - Muskuloskeletal Specialist Collection
Having searched the literature for high quality evidence that has accumulated within the last year, NHS Evidence - Musculoskeletal have focused on guidance and systematic reviews published before March 2010. As in recent years the majority of publications relate to various aspects of drug treatments. Although this constitutes a proportion of the clinical activity in relation to this disease, other important developments and various aspects of rheumatoid disease management also feature prominently in our update. This Annual Evidence Update should be of particular interest to all health professionals working in this field.

Supporting people in later life
from the NHS Evidence Later Life Specialist Collection

The purpose of this Annual Evidence Update is to highlight important secondary research, guidelines and policy documents which will help health professionals to support older people who are experiencing challenges with independent living due to serious health problems. Our focus is on material that falls outside the scope of subject-specific Annual Evidence Updates, such as mental health or cardiovascular disease. This means grappling with challenging search topics such as frailty, long-term conditions and complex morbidities as well as the different settings in which support can be provided for these patients.

NHS Evidence Update: Obesity & Accupuncture

Acupuncture
from the NHS Evidence - complementary and alternative medicine

NHS Evidence - complementary and alternative medicine will present its fourth Annual Evidence Update on Acupuncture from 19 April. This update will include a comprehensive list of systematic reviews, meta-analyses and large-scale RCTs accompanied by an expert summary of the best-available evidence.

Obesity
from the NHS Evidence - National Library for Public Health)

The National Library for Public Health will launch the 2010 Annual Evidence Update on childhood obesity from 19 April 2010, focusing on childhood obesity surveillance and preventative public health interventions. The Annual Evidence Update includes a number of key policy documents and guest editorials written by experts, which provide a snapshot of the preventative interventions for childhood obesity and international surveillance activities.

No computer access - Saturday 17th April 2010

Library computers and wireless networks will be offline on Saturday 17th April owing to essential work by the Computing Service.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Message from the Clinical School Computing Service:

In order to allow for critical upgrades to be installed all MINTS systems and services will be unavailable on the 17th April. Systems will be offline from 10:30am onwards. We hope to have the systems back up on the 18th April but this may be subject to some interruptions. Normal service will resume by Monday morning on the 19th April.

This will affect data access on all Home and Group drives as well as email. MINTS workstations will also experience network access interruptions. Hosted databases will be offline. Erweb/Medportal and hosted web services will unavailable. Other related services may also be affected.

Apologies for the inconvenience. Please bear with us while we carry out this essential work.

NHS Evidence Updates - Cardiac Rehab, Colorectal Cancer & Schizophrenia

Cardiac Rehabilitation Update 
from the NHS Evidence Specialist Collection: Cardiovascular

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an important aspect of high quality care for (in particular) the patient who has had a heart attack or undergone cardiac surgery or intervention. Access to CR remains low, as highlighted through the National Audit, and NHS Improvement are leading a national priority project to help more patients to benefit. See www.improvement.nhs.uk/heart/?TabId=56 for more information.
We are publishing an Annual Evidence Update on cardiac rehabilitation which draws together the evidence from systematic reviews and other high quality research and guidance published in the past year, building on our last three Updates. We have been greatly assisted by the NHS Improvement-Heart CR team and expert reviewers from the British Association for Cardiac Rehabilitation.

Colorectal Cancer Update 
from the NHS Evidence Specialist Collection: Cancer

NHS Evidence – cancer is publishing its 2010 Annual Evidence Update on colorectal cancer on the 12 April. It will include a guest editorial by Alan Horgan (Consultant Colorectal Surgeon Nuffield Health Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospital), as well as a list of the latest systematic reviews and guidance published about colorectal cancer since April 2009, patient information and the latest uncertainties about the effects of treatment in colorectal cancer (UK DUETs).


Schizophrenia Update 
from the NHS Evidence Specialist Collection: Mental Health

The Schizophrenia Annual Evidence Update (AEU) contains the best available evidence published on schizophrenia during 2009.
The AEU is divided up into sections on:

• Epidemiology and Pathology
• Incidence and Prevalence
• UK Treatment Guidelines and International Guidelines
• Risk Factors
• Diagnosis
• Treatment including Early Intervention, Antipsychotics (1st and 2nd generation, depot injections), Complementary and Alternative Therapies, Psychosocial Interventions.
• Prognosis
• Populations and Settings (Children and Adolescents, Criminal Behaviour, women, caregivers and workplace)
• Co Morbidity
• Dual Diagnosis
• Health Economics
• Health Service Provision

The NHS Evidence – mental health team have searched and sifted evidence from a number of databases, including Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, Cinahl and TRIP.

Access to new journals

In print:-
EMBO Molecular Medicine, Journal of Diabetes, Journal of Renal Nursing

Online:-
Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing
You can access it via ejournals@cambridge (http://sfx7.exlibrisgroup.com/cambridge/az) , which includes the correct links using the Library, or other University computers.

New CONSORT guidelines for RCTs

"New guidance to improve the reporting of trial findings is published simultaneously today (24 March 2010) by nine leading journals around the world "“ BMJ, Annals of Internal Medicine, BMC Medicine, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Lancet, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Open Medicine, PLoS Medicine, and Trials.

Full and transparent reporting of trials is crucial to ensure that decisions about health care are based on the best available evidence. "

http://www.consort-statement.org/now-published-consort-2010-statement/

Easter Holiday reminder

Library members are reminded that the
Medical Library will be shut on
Friday 2nd, Saturday 3rd and Monday 5th April 2010.

Cambridge Postgraduates: you can win!

Cambridge Postgraduates: Win an iPod Nano and 2 x £20 Amazon vouchers

As part of the Arcadia Programme based at the University Library, postgraduates are being ask to participate in a short 3 minute online survey to answer brief questions about where they seek help developing their information search and management strategies and their awareness of online tools.

Please get involved in this unique survey which will inform future support provided to postgraduates.

Everyone who completes the survey before April 9th 2010 will be entered into a prize draw to win an iPod Nano and two runner-up prizes of £20 Amazon vouchers.

Go online now to take part:
http://www.graduatejunction.net/cambridge_postgraduate_survey

Thank you.

NHS Evidence Update: Inflammatory bowel disease & TB

Inflammatory bowel disease (NHS Evidence – gastroenterology and liver diseases)

This will be an update of last year’s AEU on inflammatory bowel disease.

Tuberculosis - on the move against TB (NHS Evidence – infections)

The update has been timed to coincide with World TB Day on the 24th of March.

This update will include the key guidance, systematic reviews and reports on tuberculosis that have been published in the last 12 months, along with expert commentaries and useful websites.

Library Wireless - bad news & good news

Sorry to say, our wireless network is not currently available owing to a power problem to the server last weekend (14th March). This lack of wifi is likely to continue for at least another week or so. We're sorry about the inconvenience this may cause.

But on the up side, we're getting an new and improved wireless network, which is why it's taking slightly longer to get back up and running.

We're sure the improved network will be worth the wait.

Evening access to the Medical Library

As from Monday 15th March 2010, evening access into the Clinical School will be controlled by a security door.

Access is gained by swiping an Addenbrooke's ID card.

The custodians will be available to let in visitors to the library who don't have an Addenbrooke's card.

Regular visitors can request a card from the Clinical School receptionists.

To get out, they can be opened by pressing the green wall-mounted release buttons located on either side of the doors.

The doors will normally be in use 7pm-10pm each evening, Monday-Friday (but not on Saturdays).

NHS Evidence Update: Multiple Sclerosis and Prostate Cancer

Multiple sclerosis (NHS Evidence – neurological conditions)

The Neurological Conditions Specialist Collection Project Team has carried out a systematic literature search on Multiple Sclerosis to identify all high level evidence published since the date of the last Multiple Sclerosis AEU in 2008, including guidelines, systematic reviews, health technology assessments and economic evaluations. Leading MS experts from around the UK have read and appraised these for their validity and relevance to the busy clinician. A list of the papers deemed worthy of inclusion, along with expert commentaries by our reviewers is freely available.

This year we have also begun to identify uncertainties in research to contribute to the DUETs project (see www.library.nhs.uk/duets for more details).

Prostate cancer (NHS Evidence – cancer)
This will be the third annual evidence update on prostrate cancer prepared by NHS Evidence – cancer. It includes the systematic reviews and guidance that have been published since March 2009.

Easter Holiday

The Medical Library will be shut
Friday 2nd, Saturday 3rd and Monday 5th April 2010.

learn how to make use of the library widget!

check and renew your library loans with ease!

click the "library account and renewals" button on the Medical Library homepage.

The Cambridge Libraries Widget is a unified interface for Cambridge library users, drawing together search facilities, your library profile, loans and requests in one easy-to-manage application.

Whether you access it in CamTools, Facebook and iGoogle, or embed it in your own web page, it allows you to run your library life wherever you spend time online. Watch the video to see how easy it is to use.

Instructions on how to install the widget are available at : http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/toolbox/camlibwidget.html

NHS Evidence Update: Dermatology & Women's Health

Acne Vulgaris from the NHS Evidence Specialist Collection: Skin Disorders)

This is our fourth Annual Evidence Update on Acne Vulgaris. It includes the results of our search for new guidance and systematic reviews published since the last Annual Evidence Update in March 2009, and an overview of "what's new" by Professor Hywel Williams and Dr Emma Smith.

Dysmenorrhoea and Endometriosis from the NHS Evidence Specialist Collection: Women’s Health

NHS Evidence - women's health is launching two Annual Evidence Updates (AEUs) on Monday 1st March: our fourth Annual Evidence Update on Endometriosis and our second Annual Evidence Update on Dysmenorrhoea. Focusing on the investigation and management of both conditions these evidence updates aim to provide clinicians with up-to-date summaries of the latest evidence. "We know that it is very difficult for busy clinicians to keep up-to-date with the huge volume of literature that is published each year and so NHS Evidence - women's health does this for you so that you don't have to! Please visit the website home page to access these AEUs."

NHS Evidence Update: Chest Pain

The Cardiovascular Specialist Collection of NHS Evidence presents the findings, and expert commentary, from focused searches of the high quality evidence, from systematic reviews published since the last Evidence Update on Chest Pain in February 2009.

Evidence Update is availalble here.

Hinchingbrooke Hospital - developments

Hinchingbrooke Hospital looks set to become one of the first hospitals in the country to be run by a private firm after the last NHS bidder withdrew.

Reports from the BBC and the Times.

check / renew your loans with ease

The sharp eyed amongst you will have noticed a new link on the library homepage: Library Account & Renewals on the right-hand menu.

This a quick and easy way of checking what books you have on loan, and requesting renewal of the loans. You can also do a quick search of the catalouge and make reservations (but only on books currently on loan!).

Just log in with your library card bardcode number and your surname, and I hope the rest is straight forward - though do please ask library staff for help if not.

If you use iGoogle, or Facebook you can load this "widget" into these pages - get help and instructions here.

No excuse now for not knowing when your books are due back!

Journal Watch

Care of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine - the latest edition of Richard Lehman's Journal Watch - "a personal comment on articles from the main medical journals selected for their interest to doctors (and a few others!)"

Frontline Diaries

Along with other organisations Doctors of the World / Médecins du Monde have been sending volunteers to Haiti following the earthquake.

"Dr Christopher Bulstrode, an Oxford surgeon flew out to Haiti for Doctors of the World on Sunday 24th January to help treat victims of the devastating earthquake. During the three weeks he is due to spend on the island, he will be helping run mobile clinics."

Read his blog on his experiences there....

"I wonder if you have lived a day which has changed your life. Well I suppose that I just have. This was my first day doing surgery in Haiti. I don’t want to get into gory details but I have never seen anything like this in all my life. They tell me that last week was much worse. Well all I can say is that I am glad that I didn’t see it."

NHS Evidence Urinary incontinence - Annual Evidence Updates

Women's health is holding its second Annual Evidence Update (AEU) on Female Urinary Incontinence from Monday 1 February.

This 2010 Evidence Update builds on the accumulated knowledge-base and provides up-to-date summaries of the latest evidence in the management of stress and urge urinary incontinence and overactive bladder. Specific topics include: sacral neuromodulation for urinary storage and voiding dysfunction; pharmacotherapy for stress urinary incontinence; the use of botulinum toxin in the management of overactive bladder syndrome (OAB), and conservative management of stress urinary incontinence.

www.library.nhs.uk/womenshealth

The 2010 Annual Evidence Update on Male Urinary Incontinence is also being launched that day, in advance of the publication of the NICE guidelines on the Management of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Men later this year.

This AEU updates the high-quality evidence and commentaries presented in early 2009 on: post-prostatectomy and urinary incontinence; Botulinum Toxin A; conservative management; male and female quality of life studies; stress urinary incontinence and surgery; stress urinary incontinence and drug treatment; urgency urinary incontinence and surgery; and urgency urinary incontinence and drug treatment. We also present the RCTs and lower level evidence published in 2009 on Botulinum Toxin A and male urinary incontinence.

http://www.library.nhs.uk/kidney

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data.gov.uk

information, information everywhere
.... but never as easy to get to as you would like to think*

There's so much information out there that it can sometimes be overwhelming.

And what you need isn't always straightforward journal article or book information... and what's worse is when you know there must be statistics or official figures on a particular topic but you just can't find them.

data.gov.uk is hoping to resolve that problem.

"This site seeks to give a way into the wealth of government data" - but is sufficiently easy to search so that if you type in "A & E admissions" you'll get sensible hits.

This is not the first site of its kind, but the first for the UK.

Created by world-wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, it aims to provide access to government data, and also to encourage new ways of using the data. Data.gov.uk contains more than 2,500 sets of data from across government including information about house prices, local amenities and services, and access to local hospitals.

More information available at: BBC News, Cabinet Office, Guardian, more from the Guardian,

* apologies to ST Coleridge

Winners!!!

We're happy to announce the winners of the prize draw for the Library Survey 2009.

Winner of the iPod Shuffle:

• Dr Joanna Pocock (pictured with Peter Morgan, Head of Medical and Science Libraries)

Winners of a £10 Amazon voucher:

• Dr Peter Brown
• Dr Amos Burke
  
• Sharon Geva
  
• Sarah Moore
  
• A.N. Other

Congratulations to them, and many thanks to everyone who contributed to the Library Survey 2009. The results make very interested reading and we will be publicising the results and what we intend to do with them in due course.

Christmas break

The Medical Library will close at 12.30pm Thursday, 24^th December 2009 and re-open 8.00am Monday, 4^th January 2010.

We wish you a merry Christmas

and a happy new year!

which citation manager?

Zotero, RefMan, Endnote, citeulike etc etc..... there's just so many reference management tools out there, but which is best?

There's a useful review of the main reference management softwares on novoseek's blog Knowlege Beyond Words.

Survey Closed

Thank you!

Your contribution to the Library Survey 2009 was very much appreciated.

We'll be reviewing all the feedback, and will be contacting the winners of the prize draw shortly.

Protect yourself and our patients this winter

Message from Addenbooke's:

"Protect yourself and Addenbooke's patients this winter"

Help us protect you and our patients:

• Do not come into hospital if you have been unwell in the last 48 hours
• Children should not visit unless it is essential
• Wash your hands regularly and thoroughly with soap and water
• Catch it, bin it, kill it.

Norovirus and Swine Flu avice

Annual Evidence Update: Alcoholic Liver Disease

NHS Evidence – gastroenterology and liver diseases will be publishing its first Evidence Update on alcoholic liver diseases on 7 December 2009.

www.library.nhs.uk/gastroliver

NHS Evidence Annual Evidence Updates (AEUs) attempt to draw together recently published, high quality evidence - focusing particularly on systematic reviews and published guidelines - which it is hoped will inform and enhance the decision making and planning of clinicians, commissioners and others involved in the process of health care.

"Alcohol misuse produces a spectrum of liver injury ranging from simple fatty change through alcoholic hepatitis to cirrhosis and, in some 20% of individuals, to hepatocellular carcinoma. We will be presenting an overview of the best systematic reviews and selected primary research from the past two years, along with commentary from experts in the field. We will also provide links to useful policy documents and other items of interest."

Journals Consultation

In 2008, as part of its refurbishment programme, the Medical Library removed over 500 non-current journal titles. This was an important first step towards our strategic objective of becoming predominantly an electronic library depending far less on printed literature.

Read all about the latest phase of our Library improvement programme!

Library Survey 2009 - Last chance.....

Thank you very much if you’ve completed a survey.

If you’ve not done it yet ……. Last chance for us to hear you! (and last blog asking for your contribution!)
http://survey.libqual.org/index.cfm?ID=396467

Survey closes on Monday 7th December 2009.

Remember there’s a chance to win an iPod Shuffle or Amazon voucher!

The breakdown of respondents is: (number in brackets is previous breakdown of respondents)

Student: (41%) 42%
Medical: (18%) 20%
Nursing & Midwifery: (13%) 13%
Scientific & Technical Staff: (8%) 9%
Allied Health: (10%) 7%
Non-clinical Staff: (5%) 4%
Other: (3%) 3%
Management: (1%) 1%
Dental: (0%) 0%

Have you added your voice yet?

New issues raised/ Previous issues repeated:

• “library open days”
• Noise levels – because of building work, and because of library users
• Opening hours (again)
• Book issues
• Study environment (“turn up the heaters!” “turn on the lights!”)
• Access to library for non-NHS staff and non-University staff/students
• Support for literature searching

Previous issues raised

LibQUAL is an online survey that has been used by libraries around the world. It only takes 10-15 minutes and the analysis is completely confidential.

Any questions?

e-mail libqual-medlib@medschl.cam.ac.uk

phone (01223) 336750

visit http://library.medschl.cam.ac.uk/survey.php

NHS Evidence - Infections: annual update

NHS Evidence - infections will launch its 2009 Annual Evidence Update: HIV in Children and Adolescents from Monday 30th November to Sunday 6th December 2009.

The update has been timed to coincide with World AIDS Day on the 1st of December.

NHS Evidence - infections provides convenient and comprehensive access to the best available evidence on the investigation, prevention, treatment and control of infectious diseases from a clinical perspective.

The team are based at the Health Protection Agency’s Centre for Infections (CfI) in London.

NHS Evidence - Infections is just one of many Specialist Collections available from NHS Evidence - take a look - is your area of interest coverd?