Health

The resources on this page are aligned to your professional practice. You may need to use some of these either to support your academic work (grey literature), or to help you with your decision-making in your professional practice.

Some useful ones to highlight are: 

Decision-making:

• BMJ Best Practice

  • evidence-based clinical decision support tool that provides healthcare professionals with continually updated, reliable information on diagnosing, treating and managing medical conditions. 

  • Training tools for learning about Evidence-Based Practice

• Clinical Knowledge Summaries

  •  summaries of current evidence for primary care professionals.

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews:

  • provides synthesised evidence reviews to enable better practice in decision-making in healthcare.

• Mind The Gap

  • Resource supporting diagnosis on black/brown skin

Drugs and Prescribing:

• British National Formulary

The British National Formulary (BNF) is a joint publication of the British Medical Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, which gives up-to-date information about the selection, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines usually prescribed in the UK.

SHU has an institutional license for the British National Formulary, so you can freely make use of the BNF and BNFC as part of your studies.

When using BNF, look up the drug name, not the brand name. 

The University provides access to Clinicalskills.net to help you with your professional development. It's designed to support training and best practice in clinical skills and patient care.

Clinicalskill.net is supported by the University to give you access to its content. To use the resource, follow these steps.

1. Go to the link - https://shu.app.clinicalskills.net/

2. Scroll down the page to find 'click here for institutional access'

3. This takes you to our University log in screen and you use your normal SHU username and password.

The first time you use the resource, you will need to create a profile. After that, it will take you straight to the main page of Clinicalskills.net. 

To get straight to our SHU login page, you must have accessed using the new link (i.e. containing shu.app… Otherwise it won’t take you straight there).

Medical literature has often focused on the appearance of skin conditions on white skin, contributing to health inequalities for people of colour. The resources below (produced by the same organisation) are helping to counter this issue in order to promote equitable care.

Image credit: Duke University

If you are looking for quick access, freely available, evidence-based information then search one of the resources below.  

Each resource offers systematic reviews that will give you the best course of action for your particular patient, though if no systematic review has been carried out on your topic you might select a lower form of evidence.

For some assignments you need to know more about clinical trials.

Clinical trials are incredibly vital to research but what is a clinical trial?  You can find the answer using the following links!

How can I find clinical trials?

You have options! You can either search for a study on a clinical trial / research study website or you can use a database like PubMed and use the clinical trial filter or limit.

How do I find the results?

The volume of information available may relate to the stage of the trial, whether the team has published results or associated information. To find out more, you should head back to the site you used to locate the trial and see if there are study results, associated publications or you can run an author search in a database for the principal / lead investigator.

How and why are clinical trials registered?

You can find out more about this from a UK, US and international perspective below: