Exploring the Evidence Base

Want to search for someone across all social networks?

Terence Harrison — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:36:35 +0000

The solution is to use Social Mention: http://www.socialmention.com This facility searches across all known blogs and social networking facilities.

Filed under: Blog Info, Search engines

MetaPress search facility

Terence Harrison — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:23:36 +0000

MetaPress claims that it provides content management and end-user access websites for e-content from the world’s leading publishers. You can access 56,633 scholarly publications from leading publishers at the MetaPress reader site. And, you can set up your own personalized account, customize your homepage, and receive email alerts when new content is published.

To see, go to http://www.metapress.com/home/main.mpx

Filed under: Search engines

Hakia: another interesting search engine

Terence Harrison — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:19:08 +0000

This one extolls you to compare a Hakia search against a Pubmed search. Try it. Go to http://www.hakia.com

Filed under: Search engines

Deeper web search engine

Terence Harrison — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:53:15 +0000

Forget normal Google for your routine searches, try Deeper Web, a new search facility powered by Google. The best way to see what it does is to use it – go to www.deeperweb.com

Filed under: Search engines

TRIP PICO facility

Terence Harrison — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:35:06 +0000

TRIP Database now has a search wizard with a PICO facility. To try, go to http://www.tripdatabase.com/search/wizard

Filed under: Search engines

Muir Gray blog

Terence Harrison — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:25:38 +0000

To see Sir Muir Gray’s blog (‘The Third Healthcare Revolution’) go to: http://muirgray.net/

Filed under: Blogroll

Sir Muir gray’s blog

Terence Harrison — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:59:51 +0000

See http://muirgray.net/?feed=rss2

From blog introduction: “Health Services are in crisis, everywhere. More of the same is not the answer. A new paradigm is needed and we have set up Better Value Healthcare to help people move to that new paradigm. We have developed resources and packaged them into ten solutions. These are delivered in a rage of ways – online, on paper and face to face

This particular site also summarises the resources I have been producing since entering the public health service. My first article on culture was published in The Lancet in 1977, my first on how systems could increase healthcare value in the same journal in 1983. since then i have had many opportunities to develop these ides , and been educated by many many wonderful colleagues. For example the opportunity to create national screening programmes which screened about 8 or 9 million people a year allowed me to learn about systems and networks, and the importance of treating citizens as intelligent equals. The opportunity to create the National Library for Health, now manifest as NHS Evidence and NHS Choices let me learn about knowledge quality and the Internet and mu long standing interest in language, the focus of my 1977 paper, and the opportunity to mingle with the anthropologists and philosophers of Oxford has helped me develop my ideas on culture and these five drivers, citizens, knowledge, . the Internet, systems and culture will dominate the next five years work.”

Filed under: Resource Blogs

Doctor’s Toolbag

Terence Harrison — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:45:54 +0000

Doctor’s Toolbag is a new product from CEBMi – http://www.cebmi.net/doctors-toolbag

The Doctor’s Toolbag iPhone app developed by the BMJ Group and CEBMi Limited provides a fast and simple way to use the most effective rules in a busy clinical setting. Some rules help with diagnosis, others are useful for screening or assessing risk factors. Combining these rules with the latest evidence from Best Practice and Clinical Evidence from the BMJ Evidence Centre, provides a succinct and up-to-date tool that can be incorporated into everyday clinical practice to help improve patient care.

Key features

Contains 74 of the most useful clinical prediction tools for prognosis and diagnosis. Each prediction tool tells you what clinical features to look for, and what they mean for your patient
Evidence summaries supporting each tool, with links to abstracts from key publications
Regular updates to evidence summaries and prediction rules reflecting the latest clinical evidence
Up-to-date information from Best Practice and Clinical Evidence about additional tests that may be required, treatment and relevant guidelines
Rules searchable by title, specialist area & condition
Hide/reveal supplementary information, including useful pictures and sounds
Customisation of your homepage for one click access to your favourite tools
Embedded article references, including links to sources, for convenient mobile browsing
In-app web browsing of related content
Adjustable font size

Clinical prediction tools include:

ABCD2 stroke risk score – Prediction of stroke risk in patients with TIA
AUDIT C – Detection of the early signs of hazardous and harmful drinking
CURB 65 – Criteria for severity of community acquired pneumonia
MiniCog – Screening for cognitive impairment
Wells DVT Score – Assessment of deep vein thrombosis
Ottawa ankle, knee and foot rules – Does the patient need an ankle, knee or foot x-ray?
PHQ9 depression score – Assessment of depression in primary care
Centor criteria – Diagnosis of acute bacterial tonsillitis in adults and in children

Filed under: apps, Tools

Livestream

Terence Harrison — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:10:35 +0000

The Livestream channel is a great resource for streaming your events live. And it’s free. You just need to create an account and you’re away. To see, go to http://www.livestream.com/

Filed under: cloud-based, multimedia, Tools

Prodigy replaces CKS

Terence Harrison — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:48:04 +0000

Prodigy(formerly the Clinical Knowledge Service) is now being provided by Clarity Informatics. Prodigy can be found at http://prodigy.clarity.co.uk/home

Filed under: Databases, Evidence sites