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The Richard Wells Research Centre at Thames Valley University
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| General |
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| Thames
Valley University Faculty of Health and Human Sciences |
The
Faculty of Health
and Human Sciences, of which we are a part, is one of the largest providers of
nursing and midwifery educational programmes in the country. |
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The Department of Health
(England) |
This site gives you the latest
news and information about the Department and it's work. It also offers
you easy access to the wide range of publications, policy and guidance it
produces. |
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The Joanna Briggs
Institute |
The Joanna Briggs Institute is an
international Research and Development Unit of Royal Adelaide Hospital, and
an Affiliated Institute of the University of Adelaide. With headquarters
located in Adelaide, the capital city of the State of South Australia, nternational Collaborating Centres in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas,
and Australia and the Pacific, the Institute was established in 1995 and
became fully operational in late 1996. The formation of the Institute arose
from the recognition of a need for a collaborative approach to the
evaluation of evidence derived from a diverse range of sources, including
experience, expertise and all forms of rigorous research, and the
translation, transfer and utilisation of the "best available" evidence into
health care practice. |
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The
Centre for Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Midwifery |
Supporting the enhancement of clinical
practice in NHS Trusts , Thames Valley University's Centre for
Evidence-Based Nursing and Midwifery works with nurses and midwives from the
acute and primary healthcare sectors across North-West London and Berkshire
to develop, implement and evaluate evidence to promote, support and sustain
best practice. A collaborating centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI),
the role of the Centre is also to enable local clinicians to develop their
skills and expertise in evidence appraisal, transfer and utilisation. |
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SIGN
The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network |
The Scottish
Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) was formed in 1993. Its
objective is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of clinical care
for patients in Scotland by developing, publishing and disseminating
guidelines which identify and promote good clinical practice. |
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The AGREE Collaboration |
AGREE
is an international collaboration of researchers and policy makers who seek
to improve the quality and effectiveness of clinical practice guidelines by
establishing a shared framework for their development, reporting and
assessment. |
| NICE |
The National Institute for
Health and Clinical Excellence - was set up as a Special Health Authority for England
and Wales on 1 April 1999. It is part
of the National Health Service (NHS), and its role is to provide patients,
health professionals and the public with authoritative, robust and
reliable guidance on current “best practice”. |
| CRD
The NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination |
The NHS Centre for
Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) was established in January 1994 to provide
the NHS with important information on the effectiveness of treatments and
the delivery and organisation of health care.CRD, by offering rigorous and
systematic reviews on selected topics, a database of good quality reviews,
a dissemination service and an information service, helps to promote
research based practice in the NHS. CRD host three useful databases:
Database
of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE),
NHS Economic Evaluation
Database (NHS EED),
Health Technology Assessment
Database (HTA) |
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NHS Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) National R&D Programme |
The
NHS Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) National R & D Programme
is a national research programme that has been established to consolidate
and develop the evidence base on the organisation, management and delivery
of health care services.
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West
London Research Network WeLReN |
WeLReN
provides the infrastructure for primary care based research in
four Health Authority areas: Brent
& Harrow, Kensington & Chelsea
and Westminster, Ealing, Hammersmith
and Hounslow, and Hillingdon. |
| Infection |
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HCAI Research Network |
Funded by the Department of Health and
hosted by Thames Valley University, the HCAI Research Network has been
created to contribute to the strategic development of the United Kingdom's
national Healthcare-Associated Infection (HCAI) research agenda and to
support and manage Department funded HCAI-related research. |
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Hospital Infection Control Society |
The Hospital Infection Society
exists to foster the scientific interests of those hospital doctors who
are interested in nosocomial or hospital acquired infections. |
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The Advisory
Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection |
The terms of reference are:
to provide practical and scientific advice to the Government on strategies
to minimise the incidence of healthcare associated infections and to
maintain the effectiveness of antimicrobial agents in the treatment and
prevention of microbial infections in man and animals. In making
recommendations, the committee will take into account the relevant work of
other expert groups in the human and veterinary fields. |
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The
Infection Prevention Society |
The Infection Prevention Society exists
to promote the advancement of education in infection prevention and control
for the benefit of the community as a whole, in particular by the provision
of training courses, accreditation schemes, education materials, meetings
and conferences. |
| APIC
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology |
APIC is a multi-disciplinary
voluntary international organization with over 10,000 members. Its purpose
is to influence, support and improve the quality of healthcare through the
practice and management of infection control and the application of
epidemiology in all health settings. |
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Welsh Healthcare Associated Infection Programme (WHAIP) |
The WHAIP team provides independent
professional advice about healthcare associated infections to the public and
health professionals in Wales, to the Welsh Assembly Government and its
advisory committee the Welsh Healthcare Associated Infection sub group,
which is overseen by the Chief Medical Officer for Wales. |
| Databases |
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The
National Library for Health |
The
National Library for Health is built around user needs and provides
library services to National Health Service staff as well as users of the
service and the general public. |
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The Cochrane Library
NB You will need to be a
subscriber to use the Cochrane library fully. |
Several
databases are included in The Cochrane Library. One of them, The
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, contains Cochrane reviews and
another, The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, is a
bibliographic database of controlled trials. The Database of Abstracts
of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) includes structured abstracts of
systematic reviews which have been critically appraised by reviewers at
the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination in York and by other people. The
Cochrane Methodology Register is a bibliography of articles on the
science of research synthesis. Also included in The Cochrane Library
is a Reviewers'Handbook on the science of reviewing research; a Glossary
of methodological terms and Cochrane jargon; and contact details for
review groups and other groupings in the Cochrane Collaboration |
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The
National Research Register |
The
National Research Register is a database of ongoing and recently completed
research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's
National Health Service. |
| The
Web of Science
NB You will need to be a
subscriber to use the WOS. |
The
basic databases available are:
Web of Science
Science Citation Index Expanded with Cited References and Author Abstracts
(1981- )
Social Sciences Citation Index Expanded with Cited References and Author
Abstracts (1981- )
Arts & Humanities Citation Index with Cited References (1981- )
Web of Science Proceedings® (WoSP)
(1990- ) indexes the published literature of the most significant
conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia workshops and conventions in a
wide range of disciplines in science and technology.
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| The
TRIP Database |
The
TRIP Database searches over 55 sites of high-quality medical information.
The TRIP Database gives you direct, hyperlinked access to the largest
collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web as well as articles
from premier on-line journals such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM etc. |
| London
Links |
A
networking resources for healthcare practitioners which includes a number
of on-line databases, learning resources and health information. |
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