NSQHS Standards – Live Literature Searches

 

SEARCHES:
Partnering with Consumers: Health Literacy | Partnering with consumers | Shared decision making
Healthcare Associated Infections: Infection prevention | Wound management
Medication Safety: Medication safety
Comprehensive Care: Delirium | Falls prevention | Pressure injuries | Malnutrition
Communicating for Safety: Clinical handover
Blood Management: Blood management
Acute Deterioration: Delirium | Deteriorating patient

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Health Literacy

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Partnering with consumers

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Shared decision-making

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Infection prevention

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Wound management

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Medication safety

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Delirium

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Falls prevention

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Pressure injuries

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Malnutrition

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Clinical handover

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Blood management

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Delirium

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Deteriorating patient

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About the searches

These PubMed live searches have been developed, tested and endorsed as part of the Health Libraries for the National Standards Research Project (HeLiNS), a joint initiative of Health Libraries Australia (HLA)and Health Libraries Inc (HLi). The searches provide updated results for topics aligned to the Australian National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards. These searches were first released in July 2018. These current searches were updated in October 2020 and have been adapted and expanded to reflect the NSQHS 2nd edition. Previous versions of these searches can be located in the PANDORA Archive.

The searches have been created by a librarian with expertise in searching for evidence on health. They have undergone extensive internal testing, but have not been developed as objectively derived and validated search filters. Each search (and subset search string) has undergone consultation and review by a panel of health librarians with searching expertise and knowledge of the needs and interests of the targeted audience.

Audiences for the searches:

• Primarily aimed at clinicians working in Australian hospitals who wish to find evidence to support best practice in line with Australian National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards;
• Researchers, safety and quality staff, health service managers, policymakers, and consumers;
• Health librarians are encouraged to use the searches and to make them available to their clients through promotion and linking from websites, resources and user guides.

The searches target information on 14 topics of relevance to best practice in Australian hospital settings. They have been designed for this purpose and are NOT intended to be comprehensive. They aim to provide high specificity (relevance) so that results returned will be of immediate use. The base search for each topic focuses on a hospital setting and is limited to the last 5 years. Subsets are provided for each topic, including:

• Last 5 years
• Broad
• Australian
• Reviews

Search strategies for these subsets have either been created internally, or used an existing published search (PubMed Systematic Reviews Subset Search Strategy[1] for reviews). For each topic a broader (more sensitive search) is also provided, not limited by hospital setting or date. This search is also not validated and cannot be claimed to be comprehensive, but will be useful as a starting point (and source of search terms) for searching for research purposes.

The searches are provided in PubMed, as a platform that is freely available and a source of high quality health evidence. We encourage users to send any comments or suggestions on improving the searches, and to build on them where necessary, using their own terms. For example, the large topic of Partnering with Consumers can be narrowed to focus on a topic of particular interest.

Future Topics

Would you like to see these topics expanded? If so please email suggestions of topics for inclusion to HLA

Terms and Conditions

The text of these searches are provided under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

Contact Us

We welcome feedback and suggestions about the searches. Please send comments to HLA

[1] National Library of Medicine. Search strategy used to create the systematic reviews subset on PubMed. [Web document]. Bethesda, MD: The Library. [Last reviewed February 2019; cited 04 Oct 2020].

 

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Browser: Any modern browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge etc.) will work; however there are known problems with Internet Explorer

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Search Alerts: You can use any of these searches as the basis for regular email alerts which will show you new articles in that area. When you are on the PubMed results page, click on the Create Alert link. This short video (old PubMed) gives more details.

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No Harm Done podcast: “A podcast about improving, exploring, understanding and getting on with healthcare safety and quality”

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Full text options:

1. Open access content is sometimes available directly from PubMed

2. If your Library subscribes to BrowZine, install the Chrome extension LibKey Nomad for much easier access to full text PDFs

3. If your Library uses PubMed OTool, then open up your library’s PubMed link (which will be a custom link) in another tab before using the links on this page

4. If none of the above work, you can try your state based clinical portal or request the article from your health service library

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Customising searches to your interests
Need to narrow the results further to your particular interest? For this example, you might want to find information on yoga and falls prevention

1.  Click one of the Falls Prevention searches
2.  On the PubMed results page, you will see that the cursor is at the end of the search string in the search box near the top of the page. You are going to add a search term to the end of this
3.  Press space, type AND yoga then click on Search
4.  The results are now the falls prevention search limited to those records that contain yoga
5.  If you wanted only records that had the word yoga in the title you would use  instead AND yoga[ti]