Information Resources

Web Resources

This page of online resources complements the Trent RDSU Information Service @ ScHARR Library by providing links to useful information sources created and/or used by the Information Resources section.

Guides | Evidence-Based Practice | Portals | Health Databases |
Health Journals | Statistics | Organisations

Guides and Introductions

Critical Appraisal
Guides to appraising and evaluating scientific literature

• Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP)
• Critical appraisal and using the literature

Systematic Reviews
Guides to synthesizing the results of more than one publication, trial or study

• ScHARR Introduction to Systematic Reviews
• Systematic reviews: what are they and why are they useful?
• Systematic Reviews of Health Information Management - Examples
• Producing Systematic Reviews - Methods
• Undertaking Systematic Reviews of Research on Effectiveness CRD Report 4

Literature Searching
Links and guides to literature-searching resources for evidence-based practice

• Literature-searching guide (Netting the Evidence) [ScHARR Information Resources Section]
• RES&WCE (Retrieving Evidence in South and West for Clinical Effectiveness)
• ADEPT (Applying Diagnosis, Etiology, Prognosis & Therapy methodological filters to retrieving the evidence)

Reference Manager
Guides to using this bibliographic database software package

• Reference Manager support guides [Reference Manager website]
• Reference Management Guides [ScHARR Information Resources Section]

Bibliographic Referencing Styles

• Recording and citing references guides [University of Sheffield Library]
• References and citations explained [University of Leeds Library]

Instructions for Authors
How to write articles for a variety of health journals

• Instructions to authors in the health sciences [Mulford Library, College of Ohio]

Evidence-Based Practice
Resources including units from the University of Sheffield MSc Health Informatics course and guides written by ScHARR.

• The Evidence Base for Health Care Information [University of Sheffield]
• Evidence Based Health Care Process [University of Sheffield]
• Getting Research Into Practice [ScHARR]
• The Role of ICTs in Supporting Evidence Based Health Care [University of Sheffield]
• ScHARR-Lock's Guide to the Evidence [ScHARR]
• What is Evidence Based Health Care and why is it important? [University of Sheffield]

Portals and Gateways
Access to sources of health information and research.

• BIOME - Hub for Internet Resources in the Health and Life Sciences
• BUBL Health Studies gateway
• NLH - National Library for Health (NHS)
• Netting the Evidence - A ScHARR Introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Internet
• OMNI - UK's Gateway to High Quality Internet Resources in Health and Medicine
• ScHARR Information Resources Bookmarks
• Trawling the Net: A ScHARR Introduction to Free Databases of Interest to NHS Staff on the Internet
• TRIAGE - The Trent Research Information Access Gateway

Health Databases

• Staff and students at the University of Sheffield can visit the Science, Technology and Medical Databases page from the University of Sheffield library website.

• NHS staff should use the Dialog Databases from the NHS Dialog website

Electronic Journals in Health

• Staff and students at the University of Sheffield can visit the Medical Electronic Journals page from the University of Sheffield library website

• NHS staff should use the NeLH Electronic Journals list

Statistics
Sources of UK and international statistics, plus a guide to using the statistical software package SPSS

• BUBL Health Statistics
• Health of Wales Information Service Statistics [NHS Wales]
• HSE Statistics [Health & Safety Executive]
• Medical Statistics: An introduction using SPSS [University of Sheffield]
• Medical Statistics on the Internet [University of Glasgow Library]
• National Statistics Online
• Scottish Health Statistics [ISD Scotland]
• Statistics for Wales [National Assembly for Wales]
• WHO Health Statistics [World Health Organisation]

Organisations

Health Research Organisations

• CEBM - Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (Oxford)
• CRD - Centre for Reviews & Dissemination (University of York)
• HEDS Health Economics and Decision Science, ScHARR
• HERU - Health Economics Research Unit (University of Aberdeen)
• HSR Health Services Research, ScHARR
• King's Fund
• London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (University of London)
• Nuffield Institute for Health (University of Leeds)
• The Trent RDSU

National Organisations for Health

• Department of Health
• NICE