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UpToDate is a clinical decision support resource for all healthcare professionals.

When you face a challenging clinical question or need to confirm your approach, you can turn to UpToDate for trusted answers based on the latest evidence and best practice. The resource has been associated with improved patient outcomes and hospital performance. Within 25 medical specialties, there are over 12,300 evidence-based topics, over 210 medical calculators & over 37,000 graphics available to export to PowerPoint to enrich your presentations.

Login either via OpenAthens on the UpToDate website, or download the app on the iTunes or Google Play store and register via your hospital intranet for a mobile app account. Instructions are here. If you haven't got an OpenAthens account, register here.

The latest evidence when and where you need it - even on your phone.

Containing 30 specialties, each clinical condition offers step by step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention. This resource can also be used to find out background information on conditions such as their causes, likely complications and prevalence. BMJ Best Practice – Comorbidities is the only point of care tool that supports the management of the whole patient by including guidance on the treatment of a patient’s acute condition alongside their pre-existing comorbidities.

Login off-site via OpenAthens or create a free account on the BMJ Best Practice website (link works best on Microsoft Edge) You can then download the app from the iTunes or Google Play store and enter your account details when prompted. If you haven't got an OpenAthens account, register here.

Trusted evidence. Informed decisions. Better health.

The Cochrane Library gathers and summarises the best evidence from research to help you make informed choices about treatment, therapy or intervention type questions. It is the leading resource for systematic reviews in health care. Systematic reviews identify, select and synthesise all research published on a particular question or topic. Visit the Cochrane Library to find out more.

Online Learning

Are you wanting to conduct a systematic review? The following online learning will help you:

A Clinical Search Engine

Trip medical database - a smart, fast tool to find high quality clinical research evidence. Log in with your OpenAthens account to benefit from TRIP Pro.

If you haven't got an OpenAthens account, register here.

Evidence-based recommendations for the health and social care sector, developed by independent committees, including professionals and lay members, and consulted on by stakeholders.

If you need to carry out more complex searches including for systematic review more advanced searches should be conducted in bibliographic databases such as Medline, Embase and CINAHL rather than using the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub quick search. Click on the database you require and then via OpenAthens. If you haven't got an OpenAthens account, register here.

Health Business Elite offers full text for many journals and magazines covering health care administration and hospital management.

Subjects Include:

  • Computer technology
  • Facilities management
  • Hospital administration
  • Hospital management
  • Human resources
  • Insurance
  • Marketing.

Login first via Institution name and then OpenAthens. If you haven't got an OpenAthens account, register here.

The latest clinical evidence, relevant to practice, from a source you can Trust.

Written by nurses for nurses, The Royal Marsden Manual sets the gold standard for nursing care. It provides the procedures, rationale and guidance required by qualified nurses to deliver clinically effective, patient-focused care with expertise and confidence. It also considers the clinical governance around procedures and nursing practice. New content on self-care and wellbeing helps nurses to care for themselves emotionally and physically. Login with OpenAthens. If you haven't got an OpenAthens account, register here.

The essential evidence-based handbook for safe and effective prescribing of psychotropic agents.

Experienced psychiatrists and specialist pharmacists have contributed to the 14th edition of The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry, which was published in December 2021. It provides succinct coverage of drug treatment of a wide range of psychiatric conditions, including advice on prescribing for special patient groups. Each clear and concise chapter includes an up-to-date reference list, providing easy access to the evidence on which the guidance is based. Login either via Institution name or OpenAthens. If you haven't got an OpenAthens account, register here.

Library users are encouraged to setup an account with Visible Body within the LUHFT Network.

BMJ Case Reports publish real cases worthy of discussion, particularly around aspects of differential diagnosis, decision-making, management, clinical guidelines and pathology. Our Institutional Fellowship Code gives all Trust staff and students on placement the freedom to submit as many cases as they wish and to re-use all of their published material for personal use and teaching. Login via OpenAthens to view the case reports. If you haven't got an OpenAthens account, register here.

To submit your case report, contact the LUHFT Library for our Institutional Fellowship Code.

Accessible via OpenAthens this resource supports training and best practice in clinical skills and patient care. It contains more than 250 clinical skills procedures, all in highly illustrated step-by-step format. Written by specialist authors and peer reviewed, it's full of links to references and national guidance. Ideal to help staff with CPD and to support revalidation i.e. once logged in you can add your own notes to procedures to aid your personal study or record your reflections.

To login via OpenAthens, on Clinicalskills.net homepage, tap 'click here for Institutional Access' and then start typing Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. You will then be asked to login with your OpenAthens username and password. 

If you haven't got an OpenAthens account, register here.

SPSS Statistics is a statistical software suite for data analysis.

Please install the software via LUHFT Intranet. Locate the ‘software centre' icon on the desktop and install. Smart Vision Europe has provided several guides to get started below:

Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics course - Smart Vision Europe (sv-europe.com) – LUHFT staff do not have to pay to watch this training course as it comes free with the software. Please email Angela Hall, if you would like access to this e-learning course.

Useful resources

The British National Formulary offers key information on the selection, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines.

Written by clinicians based in the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and free to download onto your mobile device. The app provides healthcare professionals with guidance on a variety of acute conditions that can present in the Emergency Department or develop amongst in-patients. Just search for RLEMH on the iTunes or Google Play store.

Textbooks

Atlas of Surgical Techniques in Trauma by Demitrios Demetriades. 2nd ed. 2020

To access online - click here, then click login and tap on 'Access through NHS in England', you'll be then prompted to login with your LUHFT OpenAthens account. If you haven't got an OpenAthens account, register here: -https://openathens.nice.org.uk/ 

Core Topics in General & Emergency Surgery: A Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice

To access online – copy and paste the book title into the Knowledge & Library Hub search box  - You'll be prompted to log in via your LUHFT OpenAthens account. If asked to find your institution, please select Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Cracking the intercollegiate general surgery FRCS viva 

To access online – copy and paste the book title into the Knowledge & Library Hub search box  - You'll be prompted to log in via your LUHFT OpenAthens account. If asked to find your institution, please select Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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MCQ databases