This draft guidance provides evidence-based advice on conducting surveys and interviews to assess the impact of health library services on outcomes related to patient care.

This paper examines formal and informal information systems in homecare settings. Qualitative methods, including participant observation, were used, with 54 participants, and studying different types of social services ...

The aim of the project was to develop a toolkit for professionally led library services to assess the impact of the various services provided, including provision of electronic information, on outcomes that related to ...

Executive summary (edited) The thrust of recent government policies for health and social care stress the importance of workplace learning, better training for social care staff, and clinical governance. To help NHS and ...

1.0 Executive Summary 1.1 The project required a rapid evaluation of resources aimed at supporting the production of high quality health information for patients and the public. The resources were: • The Toolkit for producing ...

Executive summary The aim was to provide an overview of the status of the Specialist Libraries around 12 months after the commissioning exercise of March 2003 that saw the creation of new Specialist Libraries, as well as ...

The aim of the article is to explore and explain some of the controversies around home uterine monitoring, using a socio-technical interaction networks (STIN) approach. A Cochrane systematic review identified 15 included ...

The aim of the VIVOS project was to develop and evaluate methodologies, i.e. sets of methods, for determining the value and impact of 'virtual outreach’ information services, in the health sector in the UK. Five different ...

Executive summary The following usability techniques were reviewed for the briefing materials, with instructions provided on ‘how to do this’ as well as details of any published and relevant case studies. · Think aloud ...

Executive summary from summary report. Scope of evaluation Clinical librarian services have developed in different ways in different organisations. The common theme to any clinical librarian role is provision of information ...