Best Evidence Summaries of Topics in Mental Healthcare

Best Evidence Summaries of Topics in Mental Healthcare

Best Evidence Summaries of Topics in Mental Healthcare

Best Evidence Summaries of Topics in Mental Healthcare

Question " For adults with any mental health disorder other than Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, how effective is Eye-Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, compared to any other intervention, for improving patient outcomes? " Patients: Adults with a mental health disorder other than Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Intervention: Eye-Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Com...

Rivers of Evidence

There has been too much of a one-way flow drift down a river of evidence. Researchers from rich countries have produced the primary evidence which they proceed to summarise within reviews. These summaries have directed care worldwide. However, things are changing and the river of evidence can flow in the other direction. The care of women with eclampsia has been changed or refined throughout th...

‘Personalised evidence’ for personalised healthcare: integration of a clinical librarian into mental health services – a feasibility study

Aims and method To evaluate the feasibility of integrating a clinical librarian (CL) within four mental health teams. A CL was attached to three clinical teams and the Trustwide Psychology Research and Clinical Governance Structure for 12 months. Requests for evidence syntheses were recorded. The perceived impact of individual evidence summaries on staff activities was evaluated using a brief o...