NICE, NICE, Baby - Latest Clinical Guidelines from NICE April 23, 2008
Posted by western4uk in Arthritis, Cancer, Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Diabetes, Evidence Based Practice, Haematology.Tags: Abatacept, Arthritis, Blood, Cancer, Clinical Guidelines, Cost Effectiveness, Cystectomy, Diabetes, Drug Therapy, Evidence Based Practice, Haematology, Infliximab, NICE, Photodynamic Therapy, Prostatectomy, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Surgery, Transplantation, Ulcerative Colitis
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- Allogeneic pancreatic islet cell transplantation for type 1 diabetes mellitus
- Intraoperative red blood cell salvage during radical prostatectomy or radical cystectomy
- Interstitial photodynamic therapy for malignant parotid tumours
- Perioperative hypothermia (inadvertent)
- Ulcerative colitis - infliximab
- Abatacept for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
Search 2.0: Tipping You the Red Spot 3: Guidelines and Care Pathways March 27, 2008
Posted by western4uk in Access from Home, Access from Work, Access in the Library, Athens Password, Electronic Resources, Literature Searching, Search 2.0, Searching.Tags: Care Pathways, Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Reviews, Search 2.0
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If you are looking for a national or international clinical guideline, a protocol or a care
pathway it’s worth remembering that Search 2.0 will search the National Library of Guidelines for guidelines published by NICE and professional bodies, both in the UK and around the world.
The Content
- National Library of Guidelines (includes NICE Guidance) - The National Library of Guidelines (the resource formerly known as the Guidelines Finder) indexes over 2000 selected care guidelines available in fulltext format online. These are mainly fom the UK but there are some international guidelines included.
- -National guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill-health, produced by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
- - The NLH Protocols and Care Pathways Library holds over 250 Integrated Care Pathways (ICPs) submitted by NHS organisations, as well as useful material related to ICP development and appraisal.
- Clinical Knowledge Summaries (search of this service will be available soon) - Provides an up-to-date source of clinical knowledge, incorporating PRODIGY resources, that can help healthcare professional and patients in managing the common conditions generally seen in primary and first-contact care.
- - Guidelines from the US National Guidelines Clearing House, New Zealand Guidelines Group - Guidelines Library and Australian National Health and Medical Research Council: Clinical Practice Guidelines
Simple Search
The easiest way to search is to use the search box at the top of the National Library for Health home page (illustrated to the left).
From here you can use the usual linking terms to define your search:
- AND - to make sure the words used appear in the results - this will limit your search results.
- OR - to create an either/or link to expand your search
- NOT - to exclude a word from a search (this will limit your search).
- EXACT PHRASE - by putting your search in “speech marks” you will search for the phrase as you type it. This technique also works with Google and other search engines and is a Fade top tip to find relevant material on the internet.
Limiting Your Search to Particular Resources
If you click on the Guidance (see right) link on the home page of the National Library for Health you’ll be able to select particular resources to search (illustrated below)
Advanced searches
Advanced search allows you to search for keywords in specific fields: Title; Author; Publisher; Date; Any (field); ISBN and ISSN, combine search terms using Boolean operators (and, or, not) and limit your searches by date.
To search just for guidelines, don’t forget to deselect all other resources in the section.
Saving Search Results
To save results requires you to be logged into Athens (which you can get from the NHS here, providing you work for the NHS). Check the check boxes of the items you want to save and then click the 
button. Alternatively just click on Save Search Result for individual items.
To retrieve items you’ve saved when you’ve logged in with your Athens password jsut click on the Saved Search Results link in the MY SEARCH section of the page.
This is also where you can find Saved Search Histories, Saved Search Criteria and your Search Profiles.
E-Mailing Search Results
You can e-mail individual search results by clicking on the More Details link. This will then bring up an e-mail form (shown below) which you can mail to yourself or a colleague you think will be interested in the item. It has space for you to add your own message.
Twice as NICE - Latest NICE Guidance March 26, 2008
Posted by western4uk in Adults, Antenatal Care, Anxiety, Children, Clinical Guidelines, Education, Evidence Based Practice, Infants, Mental Health, Psychology, Respiratory Diseases.Tags: Antenatal Care, Asthma, Children, Clinical Guidelines, Corticosteroids, Diabetes, Diet Nutrition, Education, Endocarditis, Incontinence, Mental Health, Mothers, Pregnancy, Sleep Apmoea, Surgery
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- Antenatal care
- Diabetes in pregnancy
- Prophylaxis for Infective Endocarditis
- Maternal and child nutrition
- Mental wellbeing of children in primary education
- Sleep apnoea hypopnea syndrome (obstructive) - continuous positive airway pressure
- Asthma (in adults) - corticosteroids
- Intraoperative nerve monitoring during thyroid surgery
- Suburethral sling insertion for stress urinary incontinence in men
Wouldn’t it be NICE if a Bird of Paradise Landed at My Feet - Latest Guidance from NICE February 27, 2008
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice, Quality.Tags: Breast Reconstruction, Clinical Guidelines, Community Engagement, Endobronchial Ultrasound guided transbronchial needle a, Follicular Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, Grommets, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Liposuction, Lymphoedema, Osteoarthritis, Prostate Cancer, Psychosis, Rituximab, Smoking Cessation
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Latest guidance from NICE.
- Prostate cancer
- Osteoarthritis
- Ventilation tubes (grommets) in children with OME
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Liposuction for chronic lymphoedema
- Laparoscopic mobilisation of the greater omentum for use in breast reconstruction
- Endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) for mediastinal metastases
- Psychosis (first onset) - neuroimaging
- Follicular non-hodgkins lymphoma (recurrent or refractory stage III or IV) - rituximab
- Community engagement
- Smoking cessation
Smashy and NICEy - Consultations from NICE February 11, 2008
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice, Grey Literature, Quality.Tags: Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice
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Consultations from NICE seeking views on a clinical practice guideline developments for:
- Familial hypercholesterolaemia: consultation
- Lipid modification: Consultation on section 4.3 - Cardiovascular risk assessment
and requesting views on the use of erlotinib to treat small-cell cancer.
Physical Activity and Environment January 23, 2008
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice, Grey Literature, Local Authorities, Physical Activity, Public Health.Tags: Clinical Guidelines, Grey Literature, Physical Activity, Public Health, Town Planning
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Guidance offering evidence-based recommendations on how to improve the physical environment to encourage physical activity. It demonstrates the importance of such improvements and the need to evaluate how they impact on the public’s health
Not Naughty but NICE: Latest NICE Guidelines January 23, 2008
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice, Quality.Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Catheterisation, Clinical Guidelines, Drug Therapy, Mesothelioma, Physical Activity, Psoriasis, Town Planning, Ultrasound
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Square leg, square root, square egg, new fruit, Nice suit, NICE! - Latest Guidance December 12, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice, Quality.Tags: Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice, NICE
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Latest Nice Guidelines are:
- Interventions in medicines reconcilliation at the point of admission (PSP)
- Atopic eczema in children (CG)
- Thoracoscopic aortopexy for severe primary tracheomalacia (IP)
- Circumferential epithelial radiofrequency ablation for Barrett’s oesophagus (IP)
- Thoracoscopically-assisted mitral valve surgery (IP)
- Hybrid procedure for interim management of hypoplastic left heart syndrome in newborns (IP)
- Thoracoscopic excision of mediastinal parathyroid tumours (IP)
- Endoscopic saphenous vein harvest for coronary artery bypass graft (IP)
Apologies for the title which will only make sense if you are familiar with the work of the Jazz Butcher but a pun is always worthwhile.
The Commissioner 2(11) Just Released November 12, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Commissioning, Current Awareness, Evidence Based Practice, Management, Practice Based Commissioning, Public Health, Quality, RSS Feeds, Staying Up-to-Date.Tags: , Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Best Practice, Care Pathways, Clinical Effectiveness, Clinical Guidelines, Commissioning, Diabetes, Efficiency, Financial Management, Glaucoma, Guidance, Health Visiting, Hospitals, Mental Health, NHS Operating Framework, North West of England, NSF, Ophthalmology, Out of Hospital Care, Practice Based Commissioning, Primary Care, Priorities, Public Health, Quality, Smoking, Smoking Cessation, Specialist Commissioning, Waiting TimesLearning Disabilities
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The Commissioner 2(11) (link to this months contents) has just been published. You can sign up for the e-mail alert on its blog, contact Katherine Bell its editor to get a mail of the pdf version or just subscribe to its RSS feed using the icon below.
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This month’s contents are:
- Diabetes in the NHS: Commissioning and providing specialist services
- NHS Stop Smoking Services
- Commissioning for Patient Pathways
- Commissioning specialist adult learning disability health services
- Care Outside Hospital
- Delivering the 18 week patient pathway
- Eye care
- Commissioning Roadmap
- Facing the Future
- Report of the High Level Group (HLG) on Clinical Effectiveness
- Other documents
When You Weren’t Looking! November 6, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice.Tags: Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice, Guidelines
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NLH 3.1 went live yesterday. ‘Big wows!’ I hear you cry. OK so what does it mean?
International Guidelines Finder
This adds US National Guidelines Clearing House, the New Zealand Guidelines Group - Guidelines Library and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council: Clinical Practice Guidelines to the guidelines database on the National Library for Health,
When you find results they will be presented in their own hub as shown below.
Bandolier is Now Searchable on the Evidence Based Reviews Hub
Bandolier has been added to the Evidence Based Reviews Hub. Clicking on the blue title link will take you to the article.
NICE is Not Just a Biscuit…Latest NICE Guidance October 24, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice.Tags: Arthritis, Behaviour, Bladder Cancer, Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Drug Therapy, LUNA, Surgery
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- Behaviour change
- Endovascular stent insertion for Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease
- Laparoscopic uterine nerve ablation (LUNA) for chronic pelvic pain
- Intravesical microwave hyperthermia with intravesical chemotherapy for superficial bladder cancer
- Bortezomib monotherapy for relapsed multilple myeloma
- Adalimumab, etanercept and infliximab for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
Bridging the Theory Practice Gap October 7, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice, Grey Literature.Tags: Clinical Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice, Theory into Practice
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Into practice is an electronic bulletin aimed at those responsible for implementing NICE guidance. It is published on the second Wednesday of the month and includes details of the latest implementation tools and other news from the Implementation Directorate.
