Please see below.
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Linda Ferguson
Deputy Director Health Libraries (CPD)
NW Health Care Libraries Unit
Thelwall House
Warrington Hospital
Lovely Lane
Warrington
WA5 1QG
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel: 01925 662947
Fax: 01925 662588
Mobile: 0776 9687719
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Sent: 13 August 2002 15:54
To: Ferguson, Linda
Subject: Directory of Clinical Databases
Dear Linda,
I have just been sent this from one of my Marie Curie Colleagues, I had not
come accross it before. I tried to sent it to Jiscmail but it was returned
to me, please could you sent it round as it may prove a useful tool.
Thanks
Sarah
Thought you might be interested in this excerpt from the latest Department
of Health Chief Executive's Bulletin:-
High quality clinical databases offer opportunities to carry out clinical
audit, the planning and management of services, provide individual
clinicians with accurate estimates of the outcome of their care and do
evaluative research.
A website has been established (Directory of Clinical Databases - DoCDat at
www.lshtm.ac.uk/docdat where visitors can ascertain what databases exist and
be provided with an independent assessment as to their scope and quality.
Searchers can find databases on the basis of a medical condition, a health
care intervention and a geographical area. The information provided on the
coverage and accuracy of the identified databases enables an assessment to
be made as to their suitability.
The website only provides an overview of each clinical database. To delve
deeper it is necessary for the user to obtain more from the database
custodian, whose contact details are provided. The aim of DoCDat is to
enable greater access and use of clinical databases, and to improve their
quality.
The website is supported by the Nuffield Trust and the Department of Health.
Contact details:
Mary Payne at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, e-mail
address: [log in to unmask]
Prof Nick Black at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
e-mail address: [log in to unmask]
Sarah Lewis-Newton
Assistant Librarian
Marie Curie Centre Liverpool
ext 1444 Fn
(0151) 801-1444
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