IFMH Inform Volume 14, Number 2
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This edition of IFMH Inform adopts an overarching perspective of
health management issues. As well as the regular
contributors, we also have a number of first time authors, and
together they provide a fascinating overview of service and
project management issues, as well as where to go for that all
important funding.
CONTENTS: Going virtual: is it a reality?
Experiences and ways forward in providing library services to
support the health services management function in the UK
Steve Rose, Head of Health Care Libraries, Oxford University
(Formally: Library & Information Services Manager, HSMC, University
of Birmingham) Abridged from an article originally presented
at the EAHIL Conference, Cologne in September 2002.
Citation Searching in Health Technology Assessment Louise
Foster, Junior Health Information Scientist, NHS Quality Improvement
Scotland Here a grant, there a grant: where to
find funding for your research Su Golder, Information
Officer, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York
IFM Healthcare News Maria Grant, Chair - IFMH
Sidelines Steven Duffy,
Julie Glanville, Su Golder, Kate Light, Lisa Mather, Lindsey Myers,
Gill Ritchie and Kath Wright Centre for Reviews and Dissemination,
University of York
This
selection of abstracts explores publishing trends and issues around
the quantity, quality and style of reporting and retrieving research
evidence. The emerging theme is the importance of minimising the
potential for publication bias. Achieving this objective will affect
many aspects of the research process as well as the systems that
record and retrieve research and its results. Ensuring the quality
and reliability of routine data collection poses other important
issues. Two papers in this column explore how the effective
retrieval of statistical and management information through medical
information systems depends on the quality and consistency of coding
systems.
e-Library in
Scotland: Managed Knowledge Networks for Cancer, Coronary Heart
Disease and Mental Health in the West of Scotland
Anette Thain,
MKN Project Manager, NHS Education for Scotland
For this update, Annette Thain
gives more information on the Managed Knowledge Networks (MKN)
project. Although the MKN project is funded independently, it
is integrated into the wider developments of the NHS Scotland
e-Library. A research project investigating the information
needs of a cancer clinical network, funded by the Research in the
Workplace Award 2001, made a major contribution to the development
of the MKN project. NeLH:
What's new? Alison Turner,
Library Partnerships Co-ordinator, National electronic Library for
Health
National electronic Library for Health Management Briefing 01/01:
Clinical Guidelines
Compiled by Alison Winning
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