The InterTASC Information Specialists' Sub-Group Search Filter Resource

Today I was a bit stuck on a literature search. How should I do a good search to find Black and Minority Ethnic studies. BAME is a popular acronym in the UK but it doesn’t have a gold standard definition or a gold standard search strategy (that I have found so far). So I emailed some UK based health librarian discussion lists as below:

Dear All

I have had searches requested from two different people on BAME aspects of health care. I was wondering if anyone had come across a gold standard search strategy for this and if not, at least a fairly plausible one for me to get some ideas from.

So far I have found these two publications that have some ideas:

http://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-015-0657-2

https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/globalassets/media/documents/policy/policy-publications/june-2013/palliative-and-end-of-life-care-for-black-asian-and-minority-ethnic-groups-in-the-uk.pdf

I will be happy to share my findings with the boards.

I got some great replies and one of them reminded me about a great place to look for searches (or filters or hedges as they also called).

The InterTASC Information Specialists' Sub-Group Search Filter Resource

Sadly it doesn’t include my elusive BAME search strategy, but it does have lots of other great filters and information on how to evaluate an existing filter or produce a new one.

Knowledge For Healthcare - PKSB for Health is launched

Did you know that over the last year the Competencies Task and Finish Group have worked with CILIP to create a version of the Professional Knowledge and Skills Base (PKSB) that is relevant to the health setting.


This is being launched today at the CILIP Conference. For more information, and to stay up to date with Knowledge For Healthcare, follow the KfH blog http://kfh.libraryservices.nhs.uk/ and sign up for news alerts.

Recently published evidence updates

The following Evidence Updates have recently been published, detailing the latest evidence and literature:

Breast Cancer
Cancer
Cardiac Surgery
Cardiology
Colorectal Surgery
Emergency Medicine
Infection Control
Neonatal
Nursing
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Older People's Health
Palliative Care
Respiratory
Vascular Surgery

Don't forget to follow us on Twitter to find out when an evidence update is hot off the press!

Twitter tips: Hashtags

Here are five top tips on how to use hashtags:

• Remember if you're using a hashtag from a public account, anyone who does a search for the hashtag will find your tweet. So, make sure the hashtag is appropriate, professional and relevant.
• Don't use too many hashtags as that's considered as spam. Twitter's Best Practice recommends using a maximum of two hashtags.
• Hashtags can appear anywhere in your tweet, not just at the end of your tweet.
• Find interesting tweets on a topic and profiles to follow by searching for a hashtag topic in the search field.
• Create your own hashtag by simply putting the hashtag symbol # in front of your topic. When creating a hashtag remember to see if it's already being used first as part of someone's marketing campaign, competition etc.

We hope you find these tips helpful. Catch up on all our tips here.

Recently published evidence updates

The following Evidence Updates have recently been published, detailing the latest evidence and literature:

Anaesthesia & Critical Care
Cancer
Cardiology
Children's Health
Diabetes
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology
Haematology
Hepatobiliary
Ophthalmology
Pain Management
Patient Safety and Risk
Renal Services
Research
Rheumatology
Strategy
Urology

Don't forget to follow us on Twitter to find out when an evidence update is hot off the press!

CISS Officer achieves ACLIP status

Congratulations to Hannah Beckitt, one of Leicester's Clinical Information Search Service Officers, who has achieved certification from CILIP. Hannah had to submit a portfolio of evidence to show how she's developed in accordance with CILIP's Professional Knowledge & Skills Base (PKSB) at personal, organstional and wider professional level. Well done Hannah for all your hard work!

Librarians take up the challenge

The Krafty Librarian suggests we test out systematic review literature searches. This could be a good activity for a group meeting of Clinical Librarians. Everyone take a SR literature search and replicate it before the meeting, then feed back on your findings at the meeting. Like me you might have found some great searching ideas this way, and also like me you might have been surprised at the brevity of the search. Time to address that aspect now perhaps!

Post by Sarah Sutton.