Wednesday, 21 October 2015



HSE Open Access Research Award
submission date extended - closes on
Friday 30th October

To acknowledge the Open Access research output of professionals in the Irish health services, Lenus, the Irish Health Repository and the HSE’s Open Access Advisory Group are pleased to announce the   
2015 HSE Open Access Research Awards.

To be eligible for the award you will need to:

·        Be working for the HSE, on behalf of the HSE or in the Irish health system.
·        Have published and made openly (freely) accessible a piece of published research within the last 24 months.
·        Have published research which identifies a health service improvement.

Open access to health information has been proven to increase citation and impact, and can lead to the translation of research into better outcomes for patient care.

The winner will receive a specially-commissioned piece of glass and entries are now being accepted (online only) via www.lenus.ie.

The closing date for receipt of entries is Friday 30th October 2015.  Successful applicants will be announced on December 11th, 2015.

Full details of the award are available Online

Thursday, 15 October 2015



FINAL REMINDER
Research award submission closes on
Friday 23rd October

To acknowledge the Open Access research output of professionals in the Irish health services, Lenus, the Irish Health Repository and the HSE’s Open Access Advisory Group are pleased to announce the   
2015 HSE Open Access Research Awards.

To be eligible for the award you will need to:

·        Be working for the HSE, on behalf of the HSE or in the Irish health system.
·        Have published and made openly (freely) accessible a piece of published research within the last 24 months.
·        Have published research which identifies a health service improvement.

Open access to health information has been proven to increase citation and impact, and can lead to the translation of research into better outcomes for patient care.

The winner will receive a specially-commissioned piece of glass and entries are now being accepted (online only) via www.lenus.ie.

The closing date for receipt of entries is Friday 23rd October 2015.  Successful applicants will be announced on December 11th, 2015.

Full details of the award are available Online

Monday, 12 October 2015

"Open Access - opportunities to work together"

Dr. Steevens' Library in conjunction with DIT Library Services are organising a free half day seminar on Friday 23rd Oct, 2015 to promote open access, raise awareness of the value of open access publishing to healthcare and share best practice in research dissemination. The seminar will be held in St. Laurence's, at the new DIT campus at Grangegorman, Dublin 7. Register on right hand link.


Wednesday, 13 May 2015

EBOLA presentation on today Wednesday 13th May at 1pm in the Edward Worth Library, Dr. Steevens Hospital, Dublin 8. Dr. Máire O'Connor, Specialist in Public Health Medicine will present on her exerience as a WHO volunteer, working as a field epidemiologist in Sierra Leone.
All are welcome but space is limited come early!

Thursday, 26 February 2015


DEAR Links to 15 + minute reads


Determining the predictors of innovation implementation in healthcare: a quantitative analysis of implementation effectiveness
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/15/6   

Measuring mental health and wellbeing outcomes and policy: a review of child self-report measures for children and adolescents to inform practice
http://www.capmh.com/content/8/1/14

Predicating agression in children with ADHD




Toxic stress: effects prevention and treatment

http://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/1/3/390    

MBCT for health

http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/11/art%253A10.1007%252Fs12671-013-0271-1.pdf?auth66=1422459116_74f6b711318582058d114f2abe0663d8&ext=.pdf  

Using complaint behaviour to improve quality


 

The North West Londaon integrated care pilot

http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/sites/files/nuffield/publication/evaluation_of_the_first_year_of_the_inner_north_west_london_integrated_care_pilot.pdf

Leadership and organisational change implementation LOCI RCT

http://www.implementationscience.com/content/10/1/11/abstract   

Out-of-hospital care setting



What is a performance outlier?
 


A cohort study of influences, health outcomes and costs of patients’ health-seeking behaviour for minor ailments from primary and emergency care settings

  

A survey-based cross-sectional study of doctors’ expectations and experiences of non-technical skills for Out of Hours wor

http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/2/e006102.short?g=w_open_current_tab