The Clinical Librarian service is available at no cost to all staff and learners of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Our aim is to provide best evidence and skills to healthcare professionals to support evidence-based practice. We provide a variety of skills and services to help you access and utilise the best evidence available. 

Critical appraisal is an essential element in evidence-based decision making. The Medical Library offers facilitated group sessions on critically appraising systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials or qualitative studies.

By the end of this course participants will be able to:

  • Understand what critical appraisal is
  • Select appropriate CASP checklists to use to appraise different study designs
  • Use a CASP checklist to appraise a paper

Find out how to use library resources such as ClinicalKey, Dynamed, and a range of other quality resources most effectively.

To book for a training session go to the Information Skills Training section on the Library's Training and Event Calendar

 

Information Skills sessions 

We provide information skills training sessions to suit individual and team’s needs.

 

Our training sessions cover:  

-Accessing evidence and resources online

-Open Athens access to Databases

-Searching for literature

-How the library can support you

-How to sign up for journal table of contents and current awareness alerts

 

Find out what critical appraisal is, how it can contribute to your evidence-based practice and practical experience on how to critically appraise a research article using CASP checklist

To book for a training session go to the Information Skills Training section on the Library's Training and Event Calendar

 

Mon, 24 Feb, 10:00 Critical Appraisal: An introduction, overview and toolkit.  Mon, 24 Feb, 10:00
Tue, 25 Feb, 09:30 Critical Appraisal: Understanding study designs and statistics.  Tue, 25 Feb, 09:30
Thu, 27 Feb, 10:00 Critical Appraisal: Identifying bias and interpreting results.  Thu, 27 Feb, 10:00
Tue, 13 May, 10:00 Critical Appraisal: Introduction, overview and toolkit.  Tue, 13 May, 10:00
Tue, 8 Jul, 10:00 Critical Appraisal: An introduction, overview and toolkit.  Tue, 8 Jul, 10:00

Learn the skills to effectively conduct literature search using databases such as CINAHL, Embase, TRIP and more.

To book for a training session go to the Information Skills Training section on the Library's Training and Event Calendar

Tue, 28 Jan, 12:00 Basic literature searching

 

 

 Literature Search

Do you require evidence for your work, patient care, service or policy development  research, and publication? We can help save you clinical time by conducting literature search on your behalf.  

You can request evidence search by completing our literature search request form or scan the QR code.

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Critical Appraisal
Information Skills sessions 
Literature searching
Digital Literacy: Power Automate, Excel, Word, Communication Resources
Health Literacy
Referencing
Reference Management
Statistics
Writing for publication

Resources training
- BMJ Best Practice
- Critical Appraisal
- Clinicalkey training

To book on to any of the training sessions, kindly visit the library’s event page 

If you are interested in self-paced e-learning, please see elfh's modules on literature searching, critical appraisal and health literacy below.