Public Health England

• Finding the evidence: Coronavirus

The Public Health England Knowledge and Library Services team has produced this page to help those working on the current coronavirus outbreak to embed evidence-informed decision-making in their daily practice.

Most of the resources are freely accessible but some may ask for an Open Athens sign-in. If you are not already registered for OpenAthens, register here. If you are unable to access an article or resource, please contact the library library@medschl.cam.ac.uk

• PHE Daily Status Updates

Public Health England is publishing daily updates about the status of COVID-19 in the UK, at 2pm, and these updates are available here.

Search Strategies

• Literature searching tools from CADTH
  
  Search strings to capture all COVID-19 literature, as well as tools to assist with finding grey literature.

Guidance

• Guidance for health professionals
  Information on COVID-19, including guidance on the assessment and management of suspected UK cases.
• NICE guidance
  • critical care
  • kidney dialysis
  • systemic anticancer treatments.

  • NHS Guidance in 20 different languages – c/o Doctors of the World
    Doctors of the World are really pleased to be able to share with you Coronavirus (COVID-19) advice for patients in 20 languages, which were produced in partnership with the British Red Cross, Migrant Help and Clear Voice

  Summaries of Clinical Evidence

  • EPPI Centre: COVID-19: a living systematic map of the evidence
    In response to the current crisis, the ePPI Centre are maintaining an up-to-date map of the current evidence that they partition into broad domains for easy exploration. 
  • BMJ Best Practice
  • UpToDate
  • Dynamed 
  • Cochrane 
  • World Health Organisation: Global research on coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
    WHO is gathering the latest scientific findings and knowledge on coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) and compiling it in a database. They update the database daily from searches of bibliographic databases, hand searches of the table of contents of relevant journals, and the addition of other relevant scientific articles that come to our attention. The entries in the database may not be exhaustive and new research will be added regularly. The database is updated daily, Monday through Friday.

  Quality controlled sources of evidence

  • NHS Evidence
  • Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Oxford: Covid-19 Evidence Service
  • TRIPDatabase

  Health Service Managers

  • HSJ – Health Service Journal
    HSJ is making its coronavirus material available for free, but sign up if you prefer email notifications.

  Databases for more evidence

  • GIDEON

  Access to GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network) has been enabled for all NHS Athens accounts nationally until the end of April.  

  In the context of the spread of COVID-19, this resource provides a tracker to identify areas and countries with cases and the number of cases, epidemiological reports, and clinical information. 

  Click here to access.  (Please note that the link to GIDEON is in the ‘Links’ menu bar at the top, not in the list of Ovid products).

  There is also a tutorial available: https://tools.ovid.com/gideon/  

  Preprint archives

  • MedRXIV is a preprint archive where researchers can upload articles prior to submitting them to journals — meaning you get the research without having to wait for a journal to publish it. There is a dedicated COVID-19 section, with articles categorised by subject area. Please note that articles on MedRXIV have not yet undergone peer review.