Health Services Library for NHS Staff: Research Support

 

Critically Appraising the evidence base

Description:

The critical appraisal programme is designed to enable the healthcare workforce (clinical and non-clinical) to build confidence in critical appraisal. This is a set of materials that can be accessed ‘just in time’ by knowledge and library staff and the wider health and care workforce as required. We have launched the Introduction to critical appraisal session with the remainder to come in the early part of 2023.

Hierarchy:

Critical Appraisal > Critically Appraising the evidence bas

There are many tools that can help you manage references, and insert references into documents. Two good, free, choices are:

• EndNote Basic - free, web-based version of EndNote. There is also a software version that you would need to purchase.
  • We have a guide on the web version (although the guide is written for University members, it is still relevant to NHS staff).
• Mendeley - free, and available as both software and web versions. Excellent for collaboration and sharing.
  • Mendeley have a range of guides to help you get started

A NEW Resource for UHS staff - BMJ CASE REPORTS

Health Services Library Our UHS staff have now got subscription to BMJ Case Reports Fellowships. Our subscription started in May 2022 and it will end in June 2023 and it is accessible via OpenAthens.  

BMJ Case Reports is an important educational resource offering a high volume of cases in all disciplines so that healthcare professionals, researchers and others can easily find clinically important information on common and rare conditions. All articles are peer reviewed and copy edited before publication. 

The Fellowship Code is needed when submitting cases.. Email us to gain the Code: HSLIB@soton.ac.uk