hselibrary.ie/SouthEast
Welcome to hselibrary.ie/southeast. Please select from the resources in the panel below, or see our Short Guide to Online Resources for more information.
- A-Z Electronic Journals
- BioMed Central
- Biomedical Reference Collection … on EbscoHost
- BMJ Journals Collection
- BMJ Learning
- Catalogue … *
- Childlink
- CINAHL … on EbscoHost
- Cochrane Library
- Ebsco Discovery
- Intute
- Health Business Elite … on EbscoHost
- Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and Archives
- Lancet
- Lenus.ie
- MD Consult
- MEDLINE … on EbscoHost
- National Guideline Clearinghouse
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
- New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
- Nursing and Allied Health Collection … on EbscoHost
- Nursing Reference Centre
- Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection … on EbscoHost
- PsycINFO … on EbscoHost
- Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures … *
- TRIP Database
- UpToDate … *
Please note: resources marked … * are available on the HSE South East network only.
Library News
New Books, January 2012
The following books, which may be of interest to your area of work, are currently available in the HSE South East Library Service. If you can’t make it to the library in person, please phone (056) 7784174 or email us HERE, and we’ll try to arrange for the book to be sent to your work location. If you’re looking for a subject area or topic not covered in the list below, please email us HERE for assistance.
Textbook of Autism Spectrum Disorders / Eric Hollander, Alex Kolevzon, Joseph T. Coyle
“This comprehensive textbook of autism spectrum disorders is designed to meet the growing need for cutting-edge research and treatment information for clinicians who encounter patients and clients with these disorders in their practice – not just psychiatrists, but psychologists, social workers, speech therapists, and educators – and for parents who seek to understand their children’s disorders and treatment options. The editors have assembled some of the foremost experts in each disorder, as well as in genetics, pharmacology, pathophysiology, neurology, neuroimaging, and other fields that contribute to our understanding of autism spectrum disorders.”
Human Nutrition / edited by Catherine A. Geissler, Hilary J. Powers
“Fully updated by a renowned team of international experts to ensure to ensure authoritative content and a global perspective. It provides a comprehensive resource for all those in the field of nutrition and other health sciences.”
Atlas of General Surgical Techniques / Courtney M. Townsend, B. Mark Evers
“Atlas of General Surgical Techniques covers the full spectrum and breadth of general surgery through nearly 1200 easy-to-follow anatomic drawings. Drs. Courtney M. Townsend and B. Mark Evers present step-by-step guidance for common and complex procedures, including open and minimally invasive techniques. The highly consistent approach and oversized format allow for large educational illustrations with pearls and pitfalls at the end of each chapter.”
Heart Beat: a Selection of Maurice Nelligan’s Irish Times Columns / Maurice Nelligan
“On his retirement from medicine, pioneering surgeon Maurice Neligan started to write a weekly column for The Irish Times, called Heart Beat. Before long he had built up a loyal following of readers who were interested in his passionate and forthright views on health service and health policy as well as his reminisces on his career and education and his accounts of time spent at leisure and with family. This collection of 80 of his columns aims to give a flavour of the man and capture the best of his writing.”
New Books, December 2011
The following books, which may be of interest to your area of work, are currently available in the HSE South East Library Service. If you can’t make it to the library in person, please phone (056) 7784174 or email us HERE, and we’ll try to arrange for the book to be sent to your work location. If you’re looking for a subject area or topic not covered in the list below, please email us HERE for assistance.
Understanding Health and Social Care / Julia Johnson, Corrine De Souza
“The new edition of the best-selling reader Understanding Health and Social Care combines classic works with newly-commissioned material, offering readers unparalleled coverage of the key issues in health and social care. The breadth of material encompasses voices of service users, professional and lay carers, as well as academics and researchers. This Second Edition is organised into four new sections, each with a part introduction pulling together the main themes: People focuses on those who use and provide health and social care services; Places looks at where care is given; Approaches considers different ways through which care takes places; and, Ideas focuses on the ideas and policies that underpin care provision.”
Understanding Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care / Katherine Pollard, Judith Thomas, Margaret Miers
“Using real-life interview extracts, this insightful book presents a contemporary picture of interprofessional collaborative practice in a wide range of settings. Encouraging readers to think critically about their own practice and learning, itdemonstrates how important effective teamwork is in modern the health and social care context.”
Donaldson’s Essential Public Health / Liam J. Donaldson, Gabriel Scally
“This greatly expanded and updated text brings together, in one volume, the principles and applications of epidemiology, the main health problems experienced by populations and by the main groups within them, the strategies for intervention to promote health and prevent disease, the main themes underlying health policy formulation and a description of the provision of health services. It includes entirely new chapters and topics considering current concerns, changes in policy, recent developments and trends and major reforms, including outbreaks of new and emerging diseases, pandemics, the increasing elderly population, disability, and the promotion of health in young people. It is a source of knowledge and information for those from a variety of different disciplines who are embarking on a career in public health and is an extremely useful resource for established practitioners – public health doctors, senior nurses, general practitioners and health visitors.”
The Immune System / Peter Parham
“Emphasizes the human immune system and synthesizes immunological concepts into a comprehensible, up-to-date, and reader-friendly account of how the immune system works. The Third Edition has been extensively revised and updated and includes two new chapters on innate and adaptive immunity, which explore the physical, cellular, and molecular principles underlying these responses to infection. It also features enhanced coverage of aspects of innate immunity such as the complement system, Toll-like receptors, defensins, and C-reactive protein; the role of dendritic cells in initiating the primary adaptive immune response and the functions of other cells that bridge innate and adaptive immunity; immunotherapies using humanized monoclonal antibodies to treat certain diseases; and the nature of the immune response in the mucosal tissues and immunological memory. The book offers over 500 full-color illustrations that complement and clarify the concepts.”
Clinical Query Worksheet
We’ve created a Clinical Query Worksheet – available in the Helpsheets, Tutorials, Documents panel opposite – which should be of assistance to you in: 1. formulating an answerable clinical question; and 2. tracking down best evidence.
Our worksheet includes: roughwork space to construct a ‘PICO’ for your search; space to categorize your question type; a summary of the ‘Pyramid of Evidence’ and tips on where/how to source the various levels of evidence; links to and a summary toolkit from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) website.
For further information or assistance, please contact your local HSE South East library.
Clinical Queries Service
The Clinical Queries service is based on the first two steps of the University of Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) method: EBP Step 1 – Formulate an Answerable Question; EBP Step 2 – Track Down the Best Evidence.
How does it work? Firstly, send us your question by completing a simple online form at the Clinical Queries tab above. Alternatively, phone (056) 7784174 to let us know the details of your question, or email the library at Clinical.Queries@hse.ie. The library will assign your query to one of the following question types: Intervention; Aetiology/Risk Factors; Diagnosis; Prognosis/Prediction; Frequency/Rate; Phenomena. We’ll analyse your query according to the “PICO” algorithm: Population/Problem; Intervention/Indicator; Comparator/Control; Outcome. We’ll conduct a detailed subject search on the most relevant primary database: MEDLINE for medical questions; CINAHL for questions related to nursing or allied health; PSYCINFO for questions related to mental health. We’ll conduct a secondary keyword search of other resources such as Cochrane, UpToDate, MD Consult, guidelines, etc., as appropriate. Finally, the library will collate a selection of relevant results and return to you with details of the search strategy used and resources searched.
To log a search with the service, go to the Clinical Queries tab above, phone (056) 7784174 or email us at Clinical.Queries@hse.ie. Questions will be allocated to library staff in the order they are received; however, precedence will be given to questions directly related to patient care.
Disclaimer: it is not the intention of the Clinical Queries service to provide authoritative medical advice or practice guidelines, but to make available information that may assist in understanding clinical questions and/or contribute to evidence-based patient care. When using the Clinical Queries service, please remember that: search results provided may not constitute all that is available on a given subject or question; the inclusion of particular search results does not imply approval or recommendation by the library service; the library service does not provide medical advice or interpretation of information.
Welcome to hselibrary.ie/SouthEast
Welcome to hselibrary.ie.
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