Skip to Main Content

Neurology: EBP / Clinical Reference Tools

Stroke Foundation InformMe

InformMe is a dedicated resource for health professionals to improve the treatment of stroke care. Membership is offered to health professionals working in stroke care, including those currently studying.

Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management

Critical Care Clinical Reference Tools

 

 

 

 

 

Prompt is your first stop for Clinical Reference Documents at NHW.  It is NHW's document management portal for policy, procedures and guidelines and also contains forms, templates, checklists and other documents.  Many of the documents simply link to an external guideline that has been adopted for use at NHW.  The Prompt database can be searched from the quick links on the NHW intranet homepage    Registration for offsite access is available if you have access to NHW email at home. 

Most accessed CCU Prompt documents:

If, after searching Prompt and JBI, you have still not found what you need, try the following databases:

 

 

 

InformMe is a dedicated resource for health professionals to improve the treatment of stroke care. Membership is offered to health professionals working in stroke care, including those currently studying. Includes  Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management.


 

NeuroBITE (previously PsycBITE) is a database that catalogues studies of cognitive, behavioural and other treatments for psychological problems and issues occurring as a consequence of acquired brain impairment (ABI). These studies are rated for their methodological quality, evaluating various aspects of scientific rigour.


 

Other Evidence Based Databases

Point of Care Tools are clinical overviews for diagnosis & treatment designed for clinicians to quickly look up information when they are with a patient.  They are summaries of evidence from peer reviewed sources and are updated regularly by specialty experts.  Some also contain a variety of resources from primary source (eg. Medline) searches to eBooks and eJournals, guidelines,  images and videos.


Drug Point of Care resources - Mims, AMH, etc., use the Drug Resources tab at the top of this page.



https://nhw-au.libguides.com/OvidMD


https://nhw-au.libguides.com/bmjbestpractice


https://nhw-au.libguides.com/ClinicalKey

Most Primary evidence databases also have filters for a variety of publication types - Reviews, RCTs, Guidelines and so forth.