Aims

Keeping up to date in emergency medicine is difficult and it can be easy miss new research as none of us has the time to look at all the possible journals. NHS Evidence - emergency and urgent care can assist all clinicians in finding relevant information and keeping up to date.

To assist in your clinical work, the collection now has a full library of clinical guidelines that have all been quality controlled and selected for their relevance to emergency and urgent care. These are supported by a library of clinical evidence. All Cochrane reviews relevant to emergency medicine and all Best BETs topics are indexed and are searchable either via a comprehensive topic tree or a simple search box. The prescribing section also gives you access to a wide source of prescribing information including both adult and children’s BNF and TOXBASE. Hopefully you should now be able to find clinical guidance for most clinical conditions and the available evidence behind these just by visiting one web site. There is a wealth of information relating to major incidents and contingency planning. We are also developing an archive of photographs, ECGs, X-rays and similar both for reference and for when you need to liven up a PowerPoint presentation.

In the 20th century the challenge was to create new knowledge. The challenge for the 21st century is how we manage the mass of information available to us all. NHS Evidence - emergency and urgent care will help us do this.

The collection is part of the wider NHS Evidence web-based service provided by NICE. The collection is run from the Emergency and Critical Care section of the Health Sciences Research Institute at the University of Warwick, but is a collaboration between several organisations (see the About Us page). The development of the collection began with a pilot project in 2002. The clinical library section was launched in April 2005. The team responsible also run NHS Evidence - diabetes.

Key people

• Prof Matthew Cooke Clinical Lead
• Mrs Rachel Court Information Specialist
  
• Dr Beth Hall Information Specialist

Enquiries contact

• Mrs Rachel Court Information Specialist