BMJ Case Reports: Peer-reviewed collection of cases in all disciplines. Contact the library for a Fellowship Code if you would like to submit a case report*

Clinical Key: Provides access to a large collection of online reference material, books, journals, images and videos*

Clinical Knowledge Summaries: Summaries  of the current evidence base and practical guidance on best evidence.

Cochrane Library: Reliable evidence on the effectiveness of healthcare interventions and treatments

New England Journal of Medicine: Online access to NEJM.org.*

NICE Evidence: Free, open access to a range of selected and authoritative health and social care evidence-based information

NICE HDAS: Health Databases with links to journal citations, abstracts and many full text articles.  Includes the following databases:

• BNI: The British Nursing Index contains comprehensive coverage of all nursing and midwifery titles in the UK in addition to a number of International titles
• CINAHL: Nursing and allied health care literature from Europe and North America
• EMBASE: European database of biomedical and pharmacological literature
• Health Business Elite: Healthcare administration and non-clinical aspects of health care institution management
• HMIC: UK focused data and records from the Department of Health and the King’s Fund on health service policy, the quality of health services, management and administration
• Medline: Clinical, medical and nursing literature
• PsychINFO: Psychology, psychiatry and related disciplines

NICE Pathways: Free interactive tool giving quick and easy access to NICE guidance

PubMed: Open access index of medical and nursing resources. Some articles are freely available in full text.

UpToDate Anywhere: This evidence-based, point-of-care resource includes updated reviews and images of clinical topics in 21 medical specialties. It can be accessed via your desktop PC or mobile app, on or off-site.*

NB. The account is linked to your affiliation with Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.To keep your account active, simply login through the Trust intranet link every 90 days to maintain benefits.

(* Not available to all organisations)

ClinicalKey: Provides access to more than 1000 books covering a wide range of specialties. Browse or search by specialty or title.*

(* Not available to all organisations)

Anatomy TV: Interactive 3D resource bank of images, video clips and slides.*

Clinical Key: Provides access to a large collection of online reference material, books, journals, images and videos*

Images in Clinical Medicine: A resource bank of freely available images. 

UpToDate Anywhere: This resource includes updated reviews and images of clinical topics in 21 medical specialties.*

 (* Not available to all organisations)

OnExamination: Available to Trainee Doctors. An online revision resource consisting of  self assessment modules and video tutorials to assist  in preparation for membership exams. Includes: MRCP, MRCGP, MRCS pt 1 & 2, MRCPCH, MRCPsych, MRCOG 1 & 2, DRCOG, FRCA, FRCS General Surgery and Trauma & Orthopaedics. Also Specialty Certificates in Endocrine & Diabites, Gastroenteralogy and Acute Medicine.Contact Library Staff at Frimley Park or Wexham Park for access details.

It is important to critically appraise published research articles in order to check the trustworthiness and relevance of the paper. There are a number of tools to help you with this task.

CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme)

The CASP website provide a number of checklists to help appraise different types of evidence (systematic reviews, RCTs etc).

These will help you to answer the following key questions:

1. Is the study valid? ie is the methodology sound, is the study unbiased etc?

2. What are the results? eg how much uncertainty is there about the results?

3. Are the results useful? ie how does the evidence apply to your question?

Selected Books

How to read a paper, the basics of evidence-based medicine: Tricia Greenhalgh (2014)

The doctor's guide to critical appraisal: Narinder Kaur Gosall (2015)

A beginner's guide to evidence-based practice in Health & Social Care: Helen Aveyard (2013)

These and others are available to borrow from Frimley Health libraries.

Patient.co.uk

Up-to-date health information for patients.

NHS Choices

Information on conditions, treatments and healthy lifestyle.

NHS Evidence

Website produced by NICE (National Institure for Health & Care Excellence). Primarily aimed at NHS staff and students, but results can be filtered by "Information for the Public".

UpToDate Anywhere -  Patient Information (for Clinicians*)

Almost 1500 patient information topics covering the most common medical conditions. 

Choose from 2 types:

Brief Overview = The basics, 1-3 pages, simple language.

Beyond the Basics = More detailed, 5-10 pages, may include technical medical terms.

*Must register initially via Trust intranet to use. Re-validate every 90 days to maintain access.

Behind the Headlines: Find the facts behind selected articles published in newspapers.

BestBets: Originally developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, BETs now covers also cardiothoracics, nursing, primary care and paedicatrics.

ERIC: Institue of Education Sciences.

Open Grey: Open access to large quantity of bibliographical references of European grey literature, including research reports, doctoral dissertations, some conference papers and official publications.