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CareSearch palliative care knowledge network (or more simply CareSearch) is a suite of palliative care information and resources available at www.caresearch.com.au. The website is designed to support health professionals involved in providing palliative care and those needing palliative care and their families and friends.
Recent Submissions
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Correlates of perceived death competence: What role does meaning-in-life and quality-of-life play?
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-01-02)Objective Understanding factors that are associated with more adaptive death attitudes and competencies can inspire future health-promoting palliative care strategies and inform approaches to training and development ... -
Can Exposure to Online Conversations About Death and Dying Influence Death Competence? An Exploratory Study Within an Australian Massive Open Online Course
(Sage Journals, 2018-03-26)A Massive Open Online Course, Dying2Learn, was designed to foster community death conversations and strengthen community awareness of palliative care and death as a normal process. This exploratory study used a pre–post ... -
How Do Clinicians Learn About Knowledge Translation? An Investigation of Current Web-Based Learning Opportunities
(JMIR Publications, 2017-07-13)Background: Clinicians are important stakeholders in the translation of well-designed research evidence into clinical practice for optimal patient care. However, the application of knowledge translation (KT) theories and ... -
Knowing How Good Our Searches Are: An Approach Derived from Search Filter Development Methodology
(University of Alberta, 2015)Objective – Effective literature searching is of paramount importance in supporting evidence based practice, research, and policy. Missed references can have adverse effects on outcomes. This paper reports on the development ... -
Finding the best available evidence: how can we know?
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 2015)The importance (in all scientific fields) of finding and using evidence is growing rapidly, with increased recognition that decisions should be based on sound evidence. Key to finding this evidence is effective searching. ... -
Palliative Care Knowledge for All Australians: Librarians’ Work within a Multidisciplinary Team Creating a National Health Knowledge Network
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 2015)This paper introduces Australia’s CareSearch Palliative Care Knowledge network, outlining its information services, underpinning principle of evidence-based information and the contribution of librarians, integral to the ... -
Discovering the dementia evidence base: Tools to support knowledge to action in dementia care (innovative practice)
(SAGE Publications, 2015-05-28)Dementia requires expert care and decision making, based on sound evidence. Reliable evidence is difficult for busy dementia care professionals to find quickly. This study developed an experimentally tested search filter ... -
Helping the clinician to help the patient: CareSearch evidence-based information for palliative care
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CareSearch revisited
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Improve your literature searches with the new smart searching modules
(Australian Library and Information Association - Health Libraries Australia, 2014-06)Sarah Hayman reports on SMART SEARCHING, a free set of online self-paced modules for librarians and researchers who want to enhance their literature searching skills. The resource was developed by CareSearch Palliative ... -
Not published, not indexed: issues in generating and finding hospice and palliative care literature
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2010-01-06)Not all research work and new knowledge within hospice and palliative care is converted to journal articles and published. Journal indexing does not equate with indexing all contents of all listed journals. There are ... -
OvidSP Medline-to-PubMed search filter translation: a methodology for extending search filter range to include PubMed's unique content
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2013-07-02)Background: PubMed translations of OvidSP Medline search filters offer searchers improved ease of access. They may also facilitate access to PubMed’s unique content, including citations for the most recently published biomedical ... -
CareSearch Online palliative care information for GPs
(Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, 2010-05)General practitioners occupy a unique place in caring for patients with terminal illnesses who wish to continue living in the community. Supporting and encouraging GPs to offer or continue providing palliative care is not ... -
Development of a heart failure filter for Medline: an objective approach using evidence-based clinical practice guidelines as an alternative to hand searching
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2011-01-28)Background: Heart failure is a highly debilitating syndrome with a poor prognosis primarily affecting the elderly. Clinicians wanting timely access to heart failure evidence to provide optimal patient care can face many ...