Things in the library 28 March

Things have been busy
This week we have attended 2 new clinical meetings with a view to supporting them with literature searches etc. This is an increasing aspect of our work and one we are happy to expand. Consequently the blog is a little short on content this week!

Things in the news
Today in the Lancet "Effect of smoke-free legislation on perinatal and child health: a systematic review and meta-analysis"
Background
Smoke-free legislation has the potential to reduce the substantive disease burden associated with second-hand smoke exposure, particularly in children. We investigated the effect of smoke-free legislation on perinatal and child health.
Methods
We searched 14 online databases from January, 1975 to May, 2013, with no language restrictions, for published studies, and the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform for unpublished studies. Citations and reference lists of articles of interest were screened and an international expert panel was contacted to identify additional studies. We included studies undertaken with designs approved by the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care that reported associations between smoking bans in workplaces, public places, or both, and one or more predefined early-life health indicator. The primary outcomes were preterm birth, low birthweight, and hospital attendances for asthma. Effect estimates were pooled with random-effects meta-analysis. This study is registered with PROSPERO, number CRD42013003522.
Findings
We identified 11 eligible studies (published 2008—13), involving more than 2·5 million births and 247 168 asthma exacerbations. All studies used interrupted time-series designs. Five North American studies described local bans and six European studies described national bans. Risk of bias was high for one study, moderate for six studies, and low for four studies. Smoke-free legislation was associated with reductions in preterm birth (four studies, 1 366 862 individuals; −10·4% [95% CI −18·8 to −2·0]; p=0·016) and hospital attendances for asthma (three studies, 225 753 events: −10·1% [95% CI −15·2 to −5·0]; p=0·0001). No significant effect on low birthweight was identified (six studies, >1·9 million individuals: −1·7% [95% CI −5·1 to 1·6]; p=0·31).
Interpretation
Smoke-free legislation is associated with substantial reductions in preterm births and hospital attendance for asthma. Together with the health benefits in adults, this study provides strong support for WHO recommendations to create smoke-free environments

Things about job satisfaction?
A bit of fun or serious statistics - you decide - but this week saw the release of figures showing the relationship between different jobs and levels of life satisfaction. I've extracted some here with their ranking:
(1) Clergy
(2) Chief executives and senior officials
(7) Medical practitioners
(12) Physiotherapists
(16) Therapy professionals
(28) Midwives
(29) Pharmacists
(31) Dental practitioners
(41) Records clerks and assistants
(43) Librarians
(57) Health professionals
(65) Nurses
(84) Health associate professionals
(100) Medical radiographers
(101) Medical secretaries
(116) Receptionists
(119) Psychologists
(137) Medical and dental technicians
(153) Occupational therapists
(162) Paramedics
(175) Social workers
(177) Laboratory technicians
(198) Nursing auxiliaries and assistants
(274) Publicans and managers of licensed premises

Things about Mothering Sunday
Coming up this Sunday but do you know its origins?
Mums are traditionally given flowers on Mothering Sunday which is the fourth Sunday of Lent. Although it's often called Mothers' Day it has no connection with the American festival of that name.
Traditionally, it was a day when children, mainly daughters, who had gone to work as domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mother and family.Centuries ago it was considered important for people to return to their home or 'mother' church once a year. So each year in the middle of Lent, everyone would visit their 'mother' church - the main church or cathedral of the area.
Inevitably the return to the 'mother' church became an occasion for family reunions when children who were working away returned home. (It was quite common in those days for children to leave home for work once they were ten years old.) [If only! Mine or at least their clutter seems a permanent fixtures ~ Gill] And most historians think that it was the return to the 'Mother' church which led to the tradition of children, particularly those working as domestic servants, or as apprentices, being given the day off to visit their mother and family.
As they walked along the country lanes, children would pick wild flowers or violets to take to church or give to their mother as a small gift. (Source)

Things in the library 21 March

Things published
Child Health profiles published this week by Public Health England. They contain data on a wide range of issues about and affecting child health, from levels of childhood obesity, MMR immunisation rates, teenage pregnancy and underage drinking, to hospital admissions, educational performance and youth crime.

Things about Sheffield children
The Child health profile for Sheffield here has the following key findings:

• Children and young people under the age of 20 years make up 24.2% of the population of Sheffield. 
• 28.8% of school children are from a minority ethnic group. 
• The health and wellbeing of children in Sheffield is mixed compared with the England average.
•  Infant and child mortality rates are similar to the England average.
• The level of child poverty is worse than the England average with 24.4% of children aged under 16 years living in poverty. 
• The rate of family homelessness is worse than the England average.
• 8.4% of children aged 4-5 years and 18.9% of children aged 10-11 years are classified as obese. 
• The hospital admission rate for alcohol specific conditions is better than the England average. 
• The hospital admission rate for substance misuse is better than the England average.
• The rate at which children and young people were killed or seriously injured in road traffic accidents is higher than the England average. 85 children were killed or seriously injured on the roads in 2010-2012 

Things to bite with
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) have produced a national clinical guideline 'Dental interventions to prevent caries in children'. Full report here



Things to do with quality
Medical revalidation of doctors became a statutory obligation for all employing organisations in 2012, but its origins stretch back to 2000. In that period, the NHS has undergone many changes and been scrutinised by several reviews. It was against this shifting context that The King's Fund carried out a qualitative assessment of the impact to date of medical revalidation on the behaviour of doctors and the culture of organisations within seven case study sites across England.Read it here

The King's Fund have been evaluating the Care Quality Commission's regulatory model - their interim report is here

Things to bite and eat
Given that we all know that 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away' (and perhaps the dentist too!) here is a crunchy apple salad to make from Jamie Oliver

Things in the library 14th March

Things neonatal
NICE Quality Standard: neonatal jaundice
NICE has published a quality standard on neonatal jaundice (QS57) this covers the recognition and management of neonatal jaundice in newborn babies (both term and preterm) from birth to 28 days in primary care (including community care) and secondary care. It does not cover babies with jaundice who need surgery to correct the underlying cause, or the management of conjugated hyperbilirubinaemia in babies. Read it here

Pain measurement in the neonate
Recent article in Acta Paediatrica looked at the best approach to
understanding the neonate’s experience of pain. This article is open access and can be found here
Hartley, C. and Slater, R. (2014), Neurophysiological measures of nociceptive brain activity in the newborn infant – the next steps. Acta Paediatrica, 103: 238–242

Things to read
Public Health England have issued a briefing paper 'Obesity and disability - children and young people' download here. This paper examines the evidence linking obesity and disability in children and young people. It looks at a range of impairments or health conditions associated with disability and explores the main obesity-related chronic health conditions that can develop during childhood and adolescence. It also highlights:

• inequalities experienced by children and young people in relation to obesity and disability
• implications for policy, practice and research
• survey data on obesity and limiting long-term illness or disability

Things new

We have added quite a few new books to the library recently - if you would like to receive an email when new books matching your subject interests are added please email us and let us know. You can also see new books from a link on our online catalogue and also on LibraryThing

Things we did this week Infobites
On Tuesday I presented a 20 min Infobite session on keeping up-to-date ..if you were not able to attend we have a booklet on the subject which you can pick up in the library or download from our website. The important message is to try different ways of having information 'pushed to you' , filter out what you don't need and use tools that work for you.
The next Infobite is our very popular 'Managing your email' please put the date in your calendar now Tues 8th April 13:00 to 13:30



Things to eat

It's been beautiful spring weather this week so I am looking forward to eating this fabulous green pasta dish - made more healthy by using low-fat mascarpone - it is really tasty and so quick...and very green if you celebrate St Patrick's Day on Monday 

Things to look at

Stefan Eberhard, Wellcome Images

The annual Wellcome science image awards are both beautiful and fascinating - click here to view

Things in the Library 7 March

Things in the News
Researchers warned that passive smoking causes lasting damage to children's arteries, increasing the risk of heart attacks and strokes in later life. Read the research behind the headline here   

Things to avoid
Artificial food colourings which have been linked to hyperactivity in some children. The FSA has updated its list of product ranges that do not contain the following six food colours

• sunset yellow FCF (E110)
• quinoline yellow (E104)
• carmoisine (E122)
• allura red (E129)
• tartrazine (E102)
• ponceau 4R (E124)

but..
These additives which have been withdrawn from food and drink are still available in children's medicines according to a report "The Hidden Additives in Children's Medicines" by the campaign group Action on Additives.  Their parent's guide to additives in children's medicine and details of their campaign can be found here.

Things for keeping up to date

InfoBites next week on Tuesday 11th March at 13:00 is a quick 20 min taster on the subject 'Keeping up-to-date'. As usual cakey nibbles will be available or bring your lunch with you. Find out how to keep abreast of the latest evidence for clinical practice.

Things to read or see

We don't recommend stealing books from anywhere but both Sarah and Kate are currently reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, it tells the story of Liesel, an extraordinary and courageous young girl sent to live with a foster family in World War II Germany. She learns to read with encouragement from her new family and Max, a Jewish refugee who they are hiding under the stairs. For Liesel and Max, the power of words and imagination become the only escape from the tumultuous events happening around them. 

This film, in cinemas now is a life-affirming story of survival and of the resilience of the human spirit. If you would like to read the book thief you can pop up and borrow the book from the library.

Things needing your help

A review for the Office of the Children’s Commissioner "Assessing the Evidence Base in Relation to Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse".
This will cover the nature, scale and scope of intrafamilial CSA, the child protection response and implications for legislation. The authors have sent out a call for unpublished papers, documents, reports and briefings that are in the public domain which will help them understand Intrafamilial CSA. The deadline for receipt of papers: 24th  March, 2014.  Send any electronic materials to: ICSAREA@mdx.ac.uk 

Things to make and eat

This week is British Pie week which had us thinking about which pies we would like to make this weekend. We have chosen both a savoury Chicken pie with tenderstem broccoli, sweetcorn, tarragon and shallots and a sweet Apple, elderflower and almond pie recipes for you to try.

Things in the Library 28 February

Things to attend
Sheffield University Psychiatry Society would like to invite you to a free event they are holding on the 8th March in the Richard Roberts Auditorium, called 'Medicine, Madness and the Media'. Speakers include:
Simon Buckden    'A personal experience of PTSD and the stigma of mental illness'
(our very own) Dr Girish Vaidya   'ADHD - Mad, Bad or Sad?'and 
Professor Femi Oyebode   'Madness at the Theatre'.
Followed by Medfest -an annual national (and now-international!) film festival.
It is an afternoon of short films, clips and animations about aspects of health, mental illness and medicine in general, followed by a discussion by a panel of locally and nationally distinguished people.More information here The films will start at 1pm, feel free to attend just the morning/just the afternoon if that suits you better. The event is free but please register 

Things to read
This week the report 'Focus On: Distance from home to emergency care' was published. The report examines the typical distances from home that people travel to receive emergency care, and how this has changed over time. It explores the distances between a person’s home and the hospital at which they attended A&E, or received an emergency inpatient admission, using Hospital Episode Statistics from the 10-year period from 2001/02 to 2011/12. It can be read in full here 

Things to pledge
Don't forget Monday 3rd March is NHS Change Day where we are all encouraged to do something better together in the workplace. More information here and you can register your pledges here


Things have gone from bad...
We arrived in the library one morning this week to find that our library overdues hadn't been sent during the night. This meant the library staff had to engage their dusty brains and remember which buttons to press to send them manually. It transpired that a Microsoft update had been installed on the server where our system is hosted and the system had sulked - despite being tested first. Fortunately all was solved the next day. Please remember that if you borrow books from us you will get an nice little email the day before your item is due back so you can just hit reply and ask if you need to renew your items. If you don't respond the the emails gradually get less nice as the fines and admin charges increase but we really don't like taking lots of money off people so talk to us if you have a problem returning your items.

...to worse
A different morning this week we came in to find that following an overnight interruption to the power supply our best colour printer wasn't working and after a visit from a nice electrician it seems the problem may be terminal...18 months old and not cheap! Being without it wouldn't have been a particular problem as we have a lovely new colour photocopier except that we were planning a print job which wasn't compatible with the photocopier settings. Don't forget you can scan documents from our copier to your SCH email address without charge.
...BREAKING NEWS...nice IT guy from Uni may be able to help us with our printer.

...but all's well
So if you were in the library on Thursday you would have seen Kate and Gill with lots of bits of paper coming up with a 'Blue Peter' solution. This meant the Orders of Service for the hospitals annual Service of Remembrance were safely delivered to the chaplaincy in time for the event on 9th March.

Things Fairly Traided
Today I have a Fair Trade muffin recipe for you here.
On Tuesday evening after the library had closed at 19:00 (as it does Monday-Thursday) I went to the opening of a new shop  just up the road from the hospital in Broomhill. It is called Fair Grounds and during Fairtrade fortnight, which runs to March 9, the shop will be open Monday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm. From March 11 the shop will be open Tuesday to Saturday.

Things in the Library 14th February

http://webtaj.com/flowers-red-roses-heart-bouquet-26493.html

Things sweet.... and irritating
I spotted this Tweet yesterday which amused me Dr Paul Coxon (@paulcoxon) tweeted at 10:41 AM on Thu, Feb 13, 2014:

Roses are red

Violets are...

[To gain full access to poem content please sign in via your Athens or Shibboleth account]

I'm sure many of you are frustrated when you see a message like that above when you are trying to read full access of an article. To simplify your life remember to access articles via this link  and sign in with your NHS OpenAthens account. If the journal you require isn't available to you don't despair we can supply SCH staff with articles usually within 24 hours if you fill in the details on this form or send us an email.

Things you can give your opinion on
NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), the organisation which decides where the majority of Sheffield’s NHS monies should be spent, has been asking people to give opinions on their commissioning plans for the next five years - and there’s now just two weeks left to contribute. Get involved here


Things to read 
From NICE 'Eyes on Evidence' Prenatal valproate exposure and autism in children : A population-based cohort study suggests that the risk of autism may be tripled in children born to mothers who took valproate during pregnancy. Read more here

and...
The Mental Health Foundation have issued a free information pack "Children and young people with learning disabilities - understanding their mental health" which you can download here






and also..
Spotted on PLOS ONE..... "What Are the Effects of Teaching Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC)? Overview of Systematic Reviews" read the findings here.
If you haven't come across PLOS ONE yet it is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication which welcomes reports on primary research from any scientific discipline.

Things in the news
Scientists at Strathclyde University have developed a new test to speed up the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis. The open access article "Simultaneous detection and quantification of three bacterial meningitis pathogens by SERS" can be read here

Things to put in your diary

Sheffield University Medical School is holding an exhibition from June 23rd for six months describing the work of the 3rd West Riding Field Ambulance which consisted of Sheffield doctors, nursing orderlies, nurses, stretcher bearers and chaplains on the Western Front in France during the Great War. Their heroic care of the wounded will be illustrated and how the Royal Army Medical Corps ( R.A.M.C.) efficiently organised the evacuation pathways from the front line back to England in the most horrific war the world has experienced. The care of the wounded returning to Sheffield by the territorial force of the 3rd Northern General Hospital in the city’s hospitals, halls, schools and even cricket pavilions where more than 70,000 wounded soldiers were treated throughout the war will also be described.

Things romantic
Why not spoil the person in your life with this classic pasta dish Pasta Puttanesca from Delia..though possibly best not to tell them what the name means...very easy to make even for a novice.

Even simpler is this cake in a mug - 3 mins in a microwave!

Things in the Library 7th February

Things to join, use and love
Tomorrow is National Libraries Day so although we are closed at weekends we do encourage you to go along and use and support your local library - many of which will be hosting special events - in Sheffield here.
Don't forget we are here as a library for all staff at Sheffield Children's Hospital we can support your clinical work, studies and also provide leisure reading. Check our our full range of services here and don't forget you don't have to physically come to the library as the library is a Service not just a Place.


Things at Ryegate
An example of us being out-and-about is that Kate held a Library Clinic up at Ryegate on Tuesday. She was able to help people with queries about e-learning, e-mail, literature searching, accessing full-text journals and registering for Athens accounts - if you don't yet have an NHS OpenAthens account register here. The next Ryegate Library Clinic is planned for Wed 2nd April 13.00-15.00.

Things to be aware of
Tuesday 11th Feb is Safer Internet Day and as people working with and caring for children there are many issues we should all be aware of and educate ourselves and others about. The day offers the opportunity to focus on both the creative things that children and young people are doing online, as well as the role and responsibility that all stakeholders have in helping to create a better internet. Lots of information, a quiz and details of events here

Things you are invited to
Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor Charmaine Childs How 'hot' is the injured brain? A journey from the outside to the centre of the human body
Tuesday 11 March 2014 5.30 for 6pm
Room F518, Robert Winston Building,
Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Campus
More details and booking form here

Things useful
The Mental Health Foundation have published an information pack which is free to download here. This pack is intended to provide a basic introduction to mental well-being and mental health problems before considering mental health problems in children and young people with learning disabilities in more depth.

This introduction to the subject is supported by a range of different resources that may be useful for all those working with children and young people with learning disabilities, including details of different programmes that support mental health, as well as practical resources that can be used to support children.

Things we are doing next week
Tuesday 11th 17:30 to 18:30 Introduction to next season of Journal Club - chance to find out what goes on, pick up a handbook and perhaps sign up to present a paper..and of course sample the muffins

Things to make

Still the weather for comforting casseroles in our house but a very quick and tasty one here that is easy, healthy and a bit different - I'll be making it again this weekend - Italian-style beef stew