The interim law librarian: Part 4 - databases
And now, databases.Trying them out has been interesting - my favourite search detailed health topics work (as you might expect!) less well in law databases than they do in health ones! Although things like just " nurses " and " caesarean section " work quite well. I can see that some topics like safeguarding and consent would work well, and the question is whether searches would find different types of information from searches in the usual health sources (they would, I am sure), and whether that different type of information is valuable to undergraduate health students (that I need to ask).My colleag...
Source: Browsing - June 24, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: law librarianship Source Type: blogs
The interim law librarian: Part 3 - secondary sources
Primary sources(that is, case law and legislation) are partly discussed in another post. Secondary sources are commentaries on those primary sources, so, books and journal articles are secondary sources, as are websites and news sources. A book might be a textbook for students, or a more detailed book about a narrower area of law, for practitioners. Or it might be something encyclopaedic like Halsbury ' s Statutes of England.Primary sources are authoritative. Secondary sources are useful and may lead you to primary sources, which you would then track down.You mi...
Source: Browsing - June 24, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: law librarianship Source Type: blogs
The interim law librarian: Part 2 - primary sources (cases)
I am, as related in a previous post, looking after law for the time being. So, primary sources. As opposed to secondary sources (for which there is a separate post).You don ' t always need to make a bibliography - so, checking your institution ' s guidance for referencing seems very wise! But if you do make one, you list primary sources (in a " table of authorities " ) separately from secondary sources. And the table of authorities is divided into sections by material type.Primary sources are case law, and legislation. I was going to write this post about all th...
Source: Browsing - June 24, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: law librarianship Source Type: blogs
Cinahl strategy for finding studies from the UK
This is based on the Medline filter in Ayiku, L.et al.(2017) ‘The Medline UK filter: development and validation of a geographic search filter to retrieve research about the UK from OVID Medline’,Health Information and Libraries Journal 34(3), pp.200-216. That filter isdiscussed in another post.I have tested it to see if it results in error messages (it does not) but it is not yet validated. The Medline filter it is based on has been validated - see the article referenced above for details.This Cinahl filter does not specify fields, so searches all fields. In line S4, gb with no punctuation and g.b. wi...
Source: Browsing - June 23, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: CINAHL literature searching Source Type: blogs
Finding health studies about the UK
I am often asked by undergraduate nursing and midwifery students, how to find UK studies. I had got as far as thinking it was tricky, but is there anything that would help them? An email to discussion lists told me about a filter NICE have developed and validated, which is in the excellentISSG Search Filter Resource, which (rather to my embarrassment) I had not thought to check. Look under " Geographic " .I was working recently with a student who needed to find other UK studies of heart valve disease, alongside a study they knew of. Our searches, before we tried the NICE filter, were not ...
Source: Browsing - June 23, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: literature searching Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - audit and reports - 17th June 2022
Some items you may want to know about. Thanks to the libraries at Rotherham General and Kettering General Hospitals for these.re:birth, new maternity lexicon from the RCM. This is the press release - there is a link to the re:birth hub and to the report itself at the bottom of the page.National Maternal and Perinatal Audit: Clinical report 2022Fatherhood Institute (a " think and do tank " and not a membership organisation, see their About us), Bringing Baby Home: UK fathers in the first year after the birth (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - June 17, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - research and news - 17th June 2022
Two pieces of research that might be useful:Effect of acupoint hot compress on postpartum urinary retention after vaginal delivery, an RCT Systematic review and critical evaluation of quality of clinical practice guidelines on the management of SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy (librarian intervention may be needed for full text)And one news item:Guardian report of a Doctors of the World report into migrant women being charged for maternity services in England (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - June 17, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - research and guidelines - 8th June 2022
A randomised trial inBurkina Faso of prenatal fortified energy-protein supplementation and birth outcomes.Asystematic review of gestational diabetes and adverse pregnancy outcomes.TheACOG clinical practice guideline on headaches in pregnancy and postpartum (note 1 - ACOG is the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; note 2 - librarian intervention needed to get the full text).And ameta analysis on timing of cardiac surgery during pregnancy (librarian intervention needed for full text). (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - June 8, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - news - 8th June 2022
The Guardian ' s Rhiannon Lucy Coslett has been writing about her experiences of childbirth and motherhood, andsome readers have been responding with their experiences.The Guardian ' s*Science Podcast considers why pregnant women are so often excluded from drug research.* guess which news source I read! (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - June 8, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - in the news - 25th May 2022
Guardian report of lower levels of the enzyme butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) in heelprick test blood from babies who died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The research itself is published open access (so no subscription or payment required) in eBiomedicine. Guardian article on a report into exclusion of pregnant women from clinical trials, and related issues. The report is calledHealthy mum, healthy baby, healthy future: the case for UK leadership in the development of safe medicines for use in pregnancy. (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - May 25, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - reports - 25th May 2022
Communique from the Academie Nationale de Medecine (French National Academy of Medicine) about lingual phrenotomy (frenotomy) in newborns and infants. This page in French, but there is a press release in English. Birthrights inquiry into racial justice in maternity care.All Party Parliamentary Group for Women in the Penal System have produced a report into women ' s health and wellbeing in prisons, which does discuss pregnancy and childbirth. Press release from the Howard League;APPG report itself (via the Howard League).Acknowledgements: Le Monde, for the first, Rotherham hospital library...
Source: Browsing - May 25, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - research - 25th May 2022
Systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness and perinatal outcomes of COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy (Nature Communications, UK based researchers)(US) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,Maternal and child outcomes associated with the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). Comparative Effectiveness Review no. 253. Association of SARS-COV-2 infection during pregnancy with maternal and perinatal outcomes (JAMA)Acknowledgement for all three: McMaster Evidence Alerts (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - May 25, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
MPXV (Monkeypox)
List of resources for news, and clinical information. Last updated: 17th June 2022. Items added or amended that day markedNEW DynaMed entry on orthopoxvirus infections, free accessBMJ Best Practice entry on poxvirus, NHS Athens or subscription neededName of the virusNEW-BMJ is reporting WHO decision to rename the virus. (subscription or library access required to view the whole thing).Stat News had previously reported moves to rename the virus strains, so they are not named after specific geographic areas. The position paper referred to in both Stat and BMJ is on virological.org. ...
Source: Browsing - May 19, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: monkeypox Source Type: blogs
Monkeypox (MPXV)
List of resources for news, and clinical information. Last updated: 16th June 2022. Items added or amended that day markedNEW DynaMed entry on orthopoxvirus infections, free accessNEW-Stat News reports moves to rename the virus strains, so they are not named after specific geographic areas. The position paper is on virological.org. Sky News is reporting WHO discussion of the same issue.Genetic sequence dataSequence of isolate name MPXV_USA_2022_MA001 in GenBank.Sequence of isolate from Portugal, May 2022, with links (at bottom of page) to sequences isolated in other European countries,...
Source: Browsing - May 19, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: monkeypox Source Type: blogs
Monkeypox (am trying to keep this updated)
List of resources for news, and clinical information. Last updated: 22nd May 2022. New items added 22nd May BMJ news update, dated 20th MayGuardian item: What is monkeypox and should we be worried?Another Guardian item, specifically about the UK----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A search of PubMed for items published in 2022 (includes case reports and news items, as well as research)Seven cases reported in the UK in May 2022 (data from UKHSA guidance below, as of 16th May, news sources on 19th May were ...
Source: Browsing - May 19, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: monkeypox Source Type: blogs
