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Clinical Effectiveness Bulletin 27, December 2010

Click here to access the bulletin. This bulletin is produced by the North Staffordshire NHS Outreach Library and Information Service for Primary Care Trusts in North Staffordshire. It aims to draw attention to some of the key documents and reviews on clinical effectiveness that have been published in the previous month. Sources covered include NHS Evidence, Bandolier, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund. Full text links to documents refer to subscriptions accessible to NHS staff in North Staffordshire. To find out more on how to access local online journals please click here.

Annual Evidence Update on Headache

The Annual Evidence Update on Headache is now available from the Neurological Conditions Specialist Collection website . The project team has carried out a systematic literature search on Headache to identify all high level evidence published since the date of the last Headache AEU in 2009, including guidelines, systematic reviews, health technology assessments and economic evaluations. Leading headache 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 on the site .

New eBooks

The University has recently purchased a number of ebooks to help students with their revision: Akunjee, N.  (2009). The easy guide to OSCEs for final year medical students  Mann, I.  (2009).  The finalist’s guide to passing the OSCE   Patel, K. (2006).  Complete revision notes for medical finals   Sritharan, (2007).  Essential OSCE topics for medical and surgical finals   We have also purchased Bottomley & Rymer’s 100 Clinical cases in obstetrics and gynaecology (2008) 100 Clinical cases in obstetrics and gynaecology   You will need your Athens username and password in order to access any ebook.

More help on Current Awareness

The Current Awareness pages on the website have been updated to include a number of links to health-related news sources. These include general news and RSS feeds as well as major sources for bulletins. New help links have been added to the Alerts & Zetoc page to help you set up your own alerts against NHS Evidence Healthcare Databases Advanced Search (HDAS) or the Zetoc database.

New books for November 2010

You can view the latest new items that have been added to the library catalogue during November, including: The NHS handbook 2010/11 / Peter Davies Atlas of clinical neurology / editor, Roger N. Rosenberg Oxford handbook of learning and intellectual disability nursing / edited by Bob Gates and Owen Barr Handbook of diabetes / Rudy Bilous, Richard Donnelly 2010 resuscitation guidelines / edited by Jerry P. Nolan Nursing care plans: guidelines for individualizing client care across the lifespan/ by Marilynn E. Doenges, Mary Frances Moorhouse, Alice C. Murr And many more.

Annual Evidence Update on Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders in Renal Transplant patients 2010

The kidney diseases and male urogenital disorders specialist collection has published the latest AEU on Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders in Renal Transplant patients . This review includes systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and cohort studies, and assesses the impact of new evidence since the introduction of the BSH/BTS guidelines for the diagnosis and management of PTLD.

Health Inequalities Bulletin 23, November 2010

Click here to access the bulletin. This bulletin is produced by the North Staffordshire NHS Outreach Library and Information Service for Primary Care Trusts in North Staffordshire. It aims to draw attention to some of the key documents and reviews on health inequalities which have been published in the previous two months. Sources covered include: NHS Evidence, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund. Full text links to documents refer to subscriptions accessible to NHS staff in North Staffordshire. To find out more on how to access local online journals please click here.

Clinical Effectiveness Bulletin 46, November 2010

Click here to access the bulletin. This bulletin is produced by the North Staffordshire NHS Outreach Library and Information Service for Primary Care Trusts in North Staffordshire. It aims to draw attention to some of the key documents and reviews on clinical effectiveness that have been published in the previous month. Sources covered include NHS Evidence, Bandolier, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund. Full text links to documents refer to subscriptions accessible to NHS staff in North Staffordshire. To find out more on how to access local online journals please click here.