What's new on Clinical Key - new clinical overviews and books added

Clinical Overviews

Clinical Overviews are a quick and easy way to find evidence-based answers to your clinical questions.

Whenever you do a search in Clinical Key if there is a topic overview it will appear as the first result and also in a box on the right of the page.

Clinical Overviews are not book or journal content; they are concise, easily scannable summaries which include evidence-based information, current guidelines, and the latest advances on medical conditions. Clinical Overviews are tailored for clinicians.

The following topics have been added in November:

• Beta-blocker toxicity
• Hepatitis E
• Mastitis
• Orbital fracture
• Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

These Clinical Overviews have been updated with latest evidence:

• Angle-closure glaucoma
• Conjunctivitis
• Dyslipidemia in adults
• Esophageal cancer
• Fibromyalgia

Books

Elsevier have also added new electronic books to Clinical Key this month, including:

•  Art and Science of Facelift Surgery (Niamtu, Joe) 1st ed; New to CK
• Atlas of Reconstructive Breast Surgery (Pu, Lee) 1st ed; New to CK
• Community Pharmacy (Rutter, Paul) 4th ed
• Current Surgical Therapy (Cameron, Andrew) 13th ed
• Disorders of the Rotator Cuff and Biceps Tendon (Provencher, Matthew) 1st ed;  New to CK
• Essential Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Symonds, Ian) 6th ed
• Global Reconstructive Surgery (Chang, James) 1st ed; New to CK
• Green’s Skeletal Trauma in Children (Mencio, Gregory) 6th ed
• Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice (Knechtle, Stuart) 8th ed
• Musculoskeletal MRI (Major, Nancy) 3rd ed
• Onco-Nephrology (Finkel, Kevin) 1st ed; New to CK
• Peters’ Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology (Nabarro, Laura) 7th ed; New to CK
• Problem Solving in Chest Imaging (Digumarthy, Subba) 1st ed; New to CK
• Rheumatology Secrets (West, Sterling) 4th ed
• Workbook of Practical Neonatology (Polin, Richard) 6th ed; New to CK

Clinical Key is a fantastic, easy to use resource that contains huge amounts of full text content including:

• 1,400 topic pages
• Over 600 electronic journals 
• Over 1000 electronic books
• 850 First Consult monographs
• 17,000 + medical / surgical videos
• 300 + Procedures Consult videos
• 15,000 patient education handouts
• 2.2 million images
• You can find a full content list here

There is also a free app allowing you to access Clinical Key on the go.

To access Clinical Key all you need is your OpenAthens password (register online here if you don't have one) to get started.

Fact checking sites - sorting the facts from the spin

With a general election weeks away, and claim and counter claim appearing in the media and online, coupled with the rise of "fake news" and "deep fake" videos, it is can be difficult to sift out the facts from the spin (or even misinformation).


However, there are some sites who do their very best to ensure factual analysis of the days news and deliver an unbiased, un-spun analysis.

We recommend starting with Full Fact. They are an independent charity who provide impartial analysis of news items and political claims and who even push to have misinformation corrected. Full Fact are transparent about their funding and the team who run the organisation and carry out the analysis. They are a great place to start if you want to get to the bottom of a news story.

There are also some other fact checking sites you may find useful:

• Media Bias / Fact Check is a useful site that follows a strict methodology to assess the biases and the accuracy of media sources. It is a US based site, but also includes reviews of lots of UK based media outlets (e.g. The Daily Mail). A useful resource if you come across a site you are less familiar with or want to get a feel for the accuracy of your preferred media company.
  
• Fact Check run by Channel 4, attempts to look at the truth behind news stories and the claims of political parties and "hold them to account"
  
• BBC Reality Check as with Fact Check, the BBC service was set up to check and debunk misleading stories posing as real news.

Of course not every story will be covered by a fact checking service, so you will sometimes have to use your own judgement. Full Fact have developed a handy fact checking toolkit which offers simple practical tools to help you identify the accuracy of a story.

Library information skills training programme 2020

Need to find information to support your clinical practice? Need to make a decision but can't find the supporting evidence? Starting a course but can't find the study material? Found the evidence but unsure what it means? Going through nursing re-validation? We can help.

All of our training programme dates for 2020 are now available on the Library's web page.

Our courses are free to access for staff and attached students from Northamptonshire Healthcare and Northampton General Hospital.

They are aimed at both clinicians and managers who want to be able to find, evaluate and use the best possible evidence to support their decision making.

So what do we offer?

Tailored and one-to-one sessions

• If you can't make one of our workshops we can arrange a one-to-one session with you, either at one of the libraries or in your place of work if it is suitable.
• We can created a tailored session for your team or department and deliver it in any suitable location. From a 10 minute update on the library service to a full three hour training session, just let us know what you need.

Our scheduled workshops

• The PreCourse Course
  If you are returning to study, or starting a formal academic programme for the first time, our PreCourse Course may be just what you need. This three hour workshop is designed to give you the information skills you need to make you studies that bit easier. The session cover things like finding the material on your reading lists, using databases and how to identify good quality information. It also covers searching for evidence and guidelines and how to access electronic journals. Everything you should need to get you started.

• Literature Searching
  Our most popular course! If you need to access primary research, our literature searching course may be the answer.  This will enable you to effectively search a number of databases such as Medline, HMIC (healthcare management) or the British Nursing Index through the NHS's HDAS interface. We'll show you how to search, save your results and even access full text journal articles, straight from the databases.

• Critical Appraisal Skills
  Once you have found the evidence, you need to know what it means and if you can rely on it, and that is where our critical appraisal skills sessions come in.Our Introduction to Critical Appraisal workshop will take you through the statistics, terminology and process, while our highly interactive Critical Appraisal in Action session gives you the opportunity to appraise a research article in a group facilitated by one of our librarians.

• Evidence into Practice
  If you are a nurse undergoing revalidation, try our Evidence into Practice course. It offers the opportunity to refresh (or learn) your skills in searching for the latest evidence, while finding information that is relevant to your day to day work.Come to the course with a question related to your scope of practice and go away not only with updated skills, but also with evidence to feed back in to your department. You will log 2 hours and 30 minutes of CPD time and at the end of the session will complete one of the 5 reflective accounts required by the NMC for revalidation, based on what you have learned.

We run our workshops in a number of venues across the county:

• Berrywood Hospital
• Danetre Hospital in Daventry
• Northampton General Hospital
• St Mary's Hospital in Kettering.

If you have any questions or want to book a place on one of our workshops, you can find all the available dates and venues online or you can contact us for more information.