Literature Searching
Literature searching puts evidence based practice at the forefront of clinical practice- allowing you to find appropriate articles which could have a direct impact upon patients, service planning, clinical support, further research or simply to keep up to date with your area of expertise.
Evidence can support:
- An audit
- A care pathway
- A guideline
- Protocol development
- Direct patient care
- Service planning and decision making
- Presentations/ training
- Research
- Systematic Reviews
Literature searching provides you with the information you need to find the types of articles that will help you with your clinical practice or research. It is a skill that can be developed and should be incorporated into daily practice.
The Library can support you with training on this topic – (either on a 1:1 basis or as a group) should you wish to develop your skills in this area. Please contact; katie.roper@lscft.nhs.uk to arrange a session.
We also provide literature searching as part of our service. Simply fill out the form below and send it back to academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.
We kindly ask that you give us 10 working days to find the evidence for your request.