Welcome to the June 2008 edition of the
CIAP Newsletter

This issue brings you news of changes to resources in the last month and information about the pending resource renewal in July. As the financial year comes to an end CIAP enters its 11th successful year of operation with record usage statistics and continued growth.

In continuing to improve services a review of access to CIAP is being conducted during June and July and will inform the plan for improvements and future system requirements to be addressed in the coming financial year. Read on to learn more . . .

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Inside this issue:

• Annual Renewal of CIAP Resources
• Safety Alert Broadcast System (SABS) – New Alerts Issued
• Did you know? Looking for articles on Infection Control in OvidSP
• Review of Access to CIAP
• CIAP flyers - ready to print and use
• Link to a CIAP article or resource from your webpage
• New Resources and Changes on CIAP
• ARCHI Innovations in Practice Workshop
• Drug Database Updates
• ARCHI News
• CIAP Training News

Annual Renewal of CIAP Resources

The renewal of CIAP resources is planned to take place on July 1 2008 and it is expected that all current resources will be available on this date. Any changes to content will be notified to key user groups as they are confirmed. Keep watching the News@CIAP for further updates. All CIAP Representatives and Library Staff will be emailed as to changes.

As CIAP enters its 11th year successful year of service, continued usage growth resulted in a 23% increase for 2007. Congratulations to all CIAP’s supporters and users for their ongoing efforts to spread the word about the benefits of CIAP.

All CIAP resources usage since July 1998

Review of Access to CIAP

While CIAP continues to develop as a vital resource to support clinical decisions across NSW Health ongoing access issues continue for clinicians. Access and connectivity issues were identified in both the user survey and the expert review conducted in 2006 and the review of CIAP Education and Training conducted in 2007.

To assist HealthTechnology to better understand the access issues a review of access to CIAP will be undertaken in the coming months. The review will:

• Identify the technical barriers to accessing CIAP across the NSW Health system
• Identify the standards used centrally, at an AHS level and at a local level that govern accessibility and performance
• Analyse the effectiveness of the current service architecture for delivery

It is expected that this work will be concluded by mid July 2008. For further information please .

CIAP Flyers – ready to print and use

Visit the CIAP Promotions Material Page for CIAP flyers which are ready to print and use. Flyers include:

MIMS Online pamphlet PDF format	CIAP Brochure PDF format	Micromedex pamphlet PDF format

New Resources and Changes on CIAP

Australian Medicine Handbook PALM Version Withdrawn

The PALM version of the Australian Medicines Handbook has been withdrawn due to technical problems. AMH has advised that they are focusing efforts on a new online version for smartphones and similar devices, which will work across a variety of mobile platforms. The new version is planned for release in the second half of 2008. CIAP will provide further information as it becomes available.

New eTG Therapeutic Guideline – Emergency

A new eTG Therapeutic Guideline – Emergency has been released. All the topics prepared by the Emergency Expert Group have been written for the general clinician dealing with emergency clinical situations in emergency departments and general practice. Some of the topics included are:

• Resuscitation
• Chest Pain
• Endocrine Emergencies
• Toxicology
• Infectious Disease Emergencies

New Nursing Consult Journals

Nursing Consult now includes two new Australian Emergency Nursing journals providing clinically relevant research, reviews and articles of interest:

• Australian Critical Care
• Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal

Paracetamol Overdose Management Guidelines

Revised guidelines have been developed by a panel of clinical toxicologists on behalf of the poisons information centres in Australia and New Zealand. The guidelines for paracetamol overdose management are available under ‘Clinical Guidelines’ from the left side menu on the CIAP home page.

New Infection Control Journals – sponsored by the Quality and Safety Branch

The NSW Health Quality and Safety Branch have sponsored two new infection control journals.

• Journal of Hospital Infection
  Includes articles on hospital-acquired infection and related subjects and puts you in contact with the latest concepts and practices in hospital infection control.

• Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE)
  Includes peer-reviewed scientific articles for anyone involved with an infection control or epidemiology program in a hospital or health care facility. ICHE publishes research on control and evaluation of the transmission of pathogens in healthcare institutions and on the use of epidemiological principles and methods to evaluate and improve the delivery of care.

We thank the Quality and Safety Branch for their generous support in sponsoring these titles. Each of these journals can be accessed from the CIAP A – Z Full Text Journals List

OvidSP Tutorials and User Guides

Ovid has published new tutorials and user guides for OvidSP and links to these have been placed on CIAP’s User Guide and Tutorial Page.

ARCHI News

New resources available on ARCHI

Healthy Older People Earlier (HOPE) Program Resources

• Medical Assessment Unit (MAU) Forum On 10 April 2008, over 100 representatives from the sixteen NSW hospitals that have and will be implementing MAUs met to discuss strategies and lessons learned when implementing MAU’s. Renowned speakers Associate Professor John Henley (Clinical Director APU, Auckland Hospital) & Dr Patrick Fiddes (Medical Director MAPU, Frankston Hospital) shared their experiences. The presentations and audio files, including the workshop results, are available to download.
• Business Rules - The summaries of the business rules and associated documents used to run Medical Assessment Units (MAU) and HOPE wards in the HOPE Program have been updated with contributions from Sutherland and Gosford Hospitals.
• Roadshows - New Roadshows have been added from Sutherland, Concord, Campbelltown and Canterbury Hospitals.

Nursing pages

Midwifery pages

New NSW Health Information

• HIV/AIDS and other STI Patient Journeys - SESIAHS
• Older Persons and Chronic Care Project - SESIAHS

CIAP Training News

To book a local CIAP training session contact Victoria Gardner on 0411 257 443. If you are interesting in attending a session please check the CIAP Education Schedule.

Scheduled Training Sessions

We hope that you have enjoyed this newsletter. If you have something that you would like published in CIAP Newsletter, please send an email to the . The next issue will be available in August 2008.