Every year the British Medical Journal publishes a special tongue-in-cheek Christmas issue.
Some of this year’s titles include:
A summary of the papers in this year’s issue are available.
Every year the British Medical Journal publishes a special tongue-in-cheek Christmas issue.
Some of this year’s titles include:
A summary of the papers in this year’s issue are available.
Google Scholar is a fantastic, free, easy to use resource to search academic, scholarly publications.
Google Scholar aims to be comprehensive, which comes with pros and cons. The pro is that virtually all academic and scholarly publication references and abstracts are included within Google Scholar.
The con is that Google Scholar does not sufficiently screen for quality and therefore includes predatory journals (Google Scholar is Filled with Junk Science). Predatory publishers “perform a fake or non-existent peer review [and] have polluted the global scientific record with pseudo-science”, which they do to be included within Google Scholar. “Most predatory journals are included in Google Scholar.”
This is therefore a reminder of the importance of critically appraising all information, regardless of where or how you found it, or where it is published.
You can also look at Beall’s List of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers, to assist in determining the credibility of a publication.
To promote our services and connect with new and existing clients, MHIKNET will be in the Northern Health Region next week and at Manitoba Health on September 29!
Stop by our booth to enter to win an amazing draw prize, and to say hello.
Our schedule is:
• Monday September 15: Thompson
• Tuesday September 16: Thompson
• Wednesday September 17: Flin Flon
• Thursday September 18: The Pas
• Friday September 19: Snow Lake
• Monday September 29: Manitoba Health, as part of the session Where is the Evidence? An Evidence Resource Education Session for Manitoba Health Staff
We’d love to come to all of the other communities throughout Manitoba. Please contact us for when you’re having meetings, professional development sessions, or other events.
‘Patient flow’ is an important component of high quality care in any healthcare organization. Whether it’s transitioning patients from one facility to another, or moving a patient through the process of care, it requires interdisciplinary collaboration and a strong organizational structure.
We’ve compiled a list of our favourite web resources and open access articles on patient flow for all healthcare organizations (acute, long-term care or community care).
Do you have any favourite resources on Patient Flow that aren’t listed below? We’d love to hear about them! Please post in the comments section.
Web Resources
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Emergency Department Crowding. October 2011. Available here.
Local Health Integration Network (LHINC). Sharing Home Practices: Transition Management in Ontario: Home First Implementation Guide & Toolkit. February 2011. Available here.
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. Quality and Service Improvement Tools: Patient Flow. 2008. Available here.
Patient Flow Scan. June 2014. Available here
Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. International Affairs & Best Practice Guidelines: Care Transitions. March 2014. Available here
Sevin C, Evdokimoff M, Sobolewski S, Taylor J, Rutherford P, Coleman EA. How-to Guide: Improving Transitions from the Hospital to Home Health Care to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations. Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; June 2013. Available here
Open Access Articles
Fries, B.E. & James, M.L. (2012). Beyond section Q: prioritizing nursing home residents for transition to the community. BMC Health Services Research 12, 186. Available from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/12/186
Berendsen, A.J.; Marjella de Jong, G.; Meyboom-de Jong, B.; Dekker, J.H.; Schuling, J. (2009). Transition of care: experiences and preferences of patients across the primary/secondary interface – a qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research 9, 62. Available from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/9/62
Are you ever in need of sending your clients to a website with reliable, high quality, Canadian information? Look no further!
The Consumer Health Information Providers Interest Group (CHIPIG) has recently released its Top 10 list of Canadian Consumer Health Websites.
The selection of these websites was based on multiple criteria, including credibility, currency, disclaimer, disclosure, purpose and target audience, and user-friendliness and interactivity with a focus on accessibility.
For more information, visit CHIPIG’s website www.chla-absc.ca/chipig/top-ten_websites.html
Do you agree with this list? Do you have other favourites that aren’t listed here? We would love to hear what your top consumer health websites are!
The Top Ten Canadian Consumer Health Websites for 2014 are:
Canadian Cancer Society: www.cancer.ca
Heart and Stroke Foundation: www.heartandstroke.ca
About Kids Health – Sick Kids: www.aboutkidshealth.ca
HealthLink BC: www.healthlinkbc.ca
Eat Right Ontario (Dietitians of Canada): www.eatrightontario.ca
Sexualityandu.ca: www.sexualityandu.ca
Centre for Addictions and Mental Health: www.camh.ca
Healthy Canadians: www.healthycanadians.gc.ca
Canadian Diabetes Association: www.diabetes.ca
The Kidney Foundation of Canada: www.kidney.ca
We wanted to let you know of the following MHIKNET staff updates:
Orvie Dingwall has returned from her maternity leave, and extends a big thank you to Carol Cooke for being the Acting MHIKNET Librarian over the past year.
Carol Friesen commenced her Research/Study Leave on June 1st, and will return in February 2015.
Toby Cygman has been hired as the Acting MHIKNET Librarian for Manitoba Health. Toby started last week and will soon be coming to Manitoba Health a few days a week. You can contact Toby by phone: 204-480-1391 or by email: toby.cygman@umanitoba.ca
Please join us in welcoming Toby to the team!
AHEAD is a bi-weekly email, designed for current and future healthcare decision-makers.
AHEAD alerts youto new web resources, reports, articles and guidelines. Selected online resources cover topics like leadership, quality improvement, administration and patient safety.
The following is a sample of an AHEAD alert.
If you would like to subscribe, go to http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/umhsl-ahead.
Links from this alert:
Trastek, VF, Hamilton, NW, Niles EE. Leadership models in health care – a case for servant leadership. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2014; Jan 30. doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2013.10.012
Institute of Health Economics. IHE in your pocket 2014. A handbook of health economics statistics. January 2014. Accessed February 5, 2014.
On April 1 Minister Selby announced the addition of six new cancer drugs to the Manitoba Formulary and the Manitoba Home Cancer Drug Program. Coverage for these drugs will begin on April 16, 2014. [CancerCare Manitoba news item]
“The new drugs include:
Here is a selection of papers, websites and a video on breast health for Manitoba teens that might interest you.
Manitoba Health
For Professionals
For Patients
Recently the WHO has released a draft guideline recommending sugar intake is not more than 25g per day in adults. The guideline has been showing up in news items and I thought it was worth having a closer look at this topic. There has been a lot of research on sugar and artificial sweeteners looking at their impact on oral health, obesity, diabetes and kidney disease. Here is a link to the WHO guideline, some interesting videos and web sites you might want to share with your patients and a few recent articles.
WHO Draft Guideline: Sugars intake for adults and children
Videos
How sugar affects the brain – Nicole Avena [TEDtalks Video: 5:02]
“How sugar affects the brain” comes with some education supports available on the TEDtalks web site. Have a look at the quiz you can take after the video along with some additional resources and opportunity to discuss with others.
The Science of Addictive Food [The National: 11:12 min]
Web sites
Articles
What Does the Spleen Do? Harvard Medical School [4:10 min]
The students of the Harvard Medical School have created this spoof of “The Fox (What does the Fox Say?)” by Ylvis to explain the shape, appearance and function of the spleen. If you can’t get enough of the song or need a creative way to reach a younger crowd this video is for you.