Recently published evidence updates

The following Evidence Updates have been published this month, detailing the latest evidence and literature.

Anaesthesia & critical care
Cancer & Haematology
Cardiac Surgery
Cardiology
Emergency Medicine
Gastroenterology
Hepatobiliary
Ophthalmology
Pain Management
Patient and Public Involvement
Patient Safety & Risk
Rheumatology
Strategy

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A day in the life of a clinical librarian

Hello and welcome to 'A day in the life of a clinical librarian' blog series. This is a monthly series sharing what a day at work for those working in clinical librarianship actually looks like and finding out about the person behind the job.

This month we're interviewing one of our Clinical Information Search Service Officers.

Who are you and where do you work?

Hi, I’m Joanna and I’m a Clinical Information Search Service (CISS) Officer at the University of Hospitals Leicester. I am part of a job share and work 3 days a week supporting the Clinical Librarian Service across the 3 UHL sites, although I'm mainly based at the Royal Infirmary and Glenfield hospitals.

How long have you been there?

I have been here for 2 ½ years. Previously I was an Assistant Librarian at a corporate law firm in London for 5 ½ years.

What attracted you to Clinical Librarianship?

I have worked in various sectors before moving to the NHS, including a university, government department and several law firms. What attracted me to clinical librarianship was the variety of work involved and knowing that the work we do feeds back into furthering medical knowledge and improving patient care.

What does an average day at work involve?

Starting with a strong cup of tea, I usually look through my emails first and prioritise jobs for the day. These jobs can range from locating articles to producing and circulating Evidence Updates on various topics to managing our blog, website and twitter profile and taking minutes at our team meetings. As my role is aimed at providing support to the clinical librarians, I also often pick up any literature searches when the team is inundated with requests and help organise study days too.

If you weren’t a Librarian, what would you be?

If I could be both a professional, expert gardener and some kind of designer, that would be amazing. Or if money wasn’t an issue, I’d love to run a shop that runs craft courses by day and turns into a gig venue by night for all my favourite bands to play at!

Tell us a joke or a non-work fact about yourself

Way back I did a course on vinyl dj-ing and have dj’d at several venues in London. I once got so excited about getting to play the Rolling Stones (one of my favourite bands) that I managed to play the same song twice. Thankfully it went down pretty well.

Recently published evidence updates

The following Evidence Updates have been published this month, detailing the latest evidence and literature.

Anaesthesia and Critical Care
Cancer and Haematology
Cardiology
Children’s Health
Clinical Genetics
Emergency Medicine
Gastroenterology
Hepatobiliary
Ophthalmology
Pain Management
Patient and Public Involvement
Renal
Rheumatology
Stroke
Urology

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Literature search tips: exporting references for systematic reviews

This week's literature search tip comes from our Clinical Librarian Service Manager, Pip Divall:

Quite often teams ask me for results in a spreadsheet because they are doing a systematic review. An easy way to do this is to export the references out of Refworks into Excel.

For further guidance, check out the following guidelines out and don't forget that Refworks dedupes results too!

http://refworksatunmc.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/can-i-create-excel-table-from-my.html

We hope you like today's tip! Stay tuned for more and please do share your thoughts in the comments field below or on our Twitter page and catch up on our previous literature search tips here.

UHL Writing Club, Tuesday 23rd June

The next UHL Writing Club will be looking at tips on publishing & presenting audits. The guest speaker will be Dr Amit Mistri & the Audit Team. This session would be of particular interest to Junior Doctors, but is open to all UHL staff who are interested in writing for publication.

It will be held in the Odames Library meeting room from 1-2pm on Tuesday 23rd June.

To reserve your free place, contact Pip Divall.

International Clinical Trials Day - 20 May 2015

As part of International Clinical Trials Day 2015 on Wednesday 20 May, the Children’s Research team (part of the Clinical Research Network: East Midlands) are promoting children’s research at Leicester's Hospitals.

 The #whywedoresearch campaign will be promoted via their brand new twitter page @UHLkidsResearch.

Now Fully Booked

Medical Terminology Training

Beverley Walsh, of West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, has kindly agreed to come and run her course on “Medical Terminology” for us here at University Hospitals of Leicester. The date is set for Tuesday 30^th June, from 10.30-2.00, at the Odames Library, Victoria Building, Leicester Royal Infirmary, LE1 5WW .

The UHL Clinical Librarian Service are covering the cost of the session, and Primal Pictures (producers of Anatomy.tv) will provide a light lunch on the day.

The session will cover the basic building blocks of medical terminology, and Beverley has successfully run this course in several parts of the UK. I envisage that this session will be most useful to those staff who are new to the NHS and those less confident in the use of medical terminology.

We have 7 places to offer to our East Midlands colleagues on this session, free of charge, on a first come, first served basis. To book a place, please email pip.divall@uhl-tr.nhs.uk