Becoming the editor's pick. Key strategies for drafting manuscripts for publication

 

Helping healthcare organisations across the globe adopt best research practices. 

In strategic partnership, our program experts can advise on optimising research efforts and global standards, processes and techniques. We help establish a research culture amongst healthcare professionals resulting in improved patient outcomes, healthcare quality and efficiency. 

In this masterclass, you will learn to identify key elements Editors look for in a manuscript, and how to apply key strategies for drafting an original research article to increase its chances of getting published. 

Join Ximena Alvira MD, PhD to learn how to increase your chances of getting published. Ximena has more than 8 years’ experience in basic research and over 25 years working as a biomedical writer and editor. 

Registration: https://www.elsevier.com/en-gb/clinical-solutions/events/northern-europe-masterclasses

Venue: Leeds General Infirmary, the Postgraduate Centre, Littlewood Hall, LS1 3EX

Agenda:

10:30 Welcome

11:00 -12:00 Main session Part 1: What do editors look for and what recommendations on how to draft an original article?

12:00 -12:30 Coffee & Networking

12:30 -13:15 Main Session part 2: Final recommendations on how to draft an original article.

13:15 -13:30 Q& A  and Networking

 

 

Library Facilities

Books, literature searches and access to electronic resources are only a part of the service your health library provides. The library is also a physical space where you can study or get work done away from a noisy or overcrowded office or a busy home.  It is also a good "time out" zone to de-stress and chill and refocus your mind.

 Here's what you will find in the Health Library at County:

 •NHS Networked PCs

•Books

•Study Space

•External WiFi

•Laptops/space to use your own devices

•Printing

•Photocopying/scanning

•Laminating

•Vending machines

•Friendly, helpful and knowledgeable staff

     

 

Organ Donation Awareness Week

18^th – 24^th September 2023

 

Organ Donation Awareness Week is a campaign run by NHS Blood and Transplant, which takes place every year with the aim of highlighting the importance of organ donation.  The aim is to encourage more people to register as organ donors so more lives can be saved.

 

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to the issue of organ donation, whether it be the practical surgical side or the ethical considerations. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.  

 

BOOKS   

·         Transplantation at a glance; Clatworthy, Menna; Allison, M; et al; 2012, 2^nd edtion (Wiley-Blackwell)

·         Transplantation; Forsythe, John L. R; 2014, 5^th edition (Saunders Elsevier)

·         The European Blood and Marrow Transplantation Textbook for Nurses: Under the Auspices of EBMT; Babic, Aleksandra ; Kenyon, Michelle; 2023 (Springer Nature) - [only available as online – open access e-book]

·         How death becomes life : notes from a transplant surgeon; Mezrich, Joshua D; 2020 (Atlantic Books)

·         Renal transplantation; Torpey, Nicholas; 2010 (Oxford University Press)

·         Transplantation Immunology: Methods and Protocols; Zachary, Andrea A.; Leffell, Mary S.; 2013; 2^nd edition, (Humana Press) – [only available online as a Keele e-book]*

·         Tracheal Transplantation: Current Possibilities; Delaere, Pierre; 2019 (Leuven University Press) – [only available online – open access e-book]

·         Stem Cell Transplantations Between Siblings as Social Phenomena: The Child’s Body and Family Decision-making; Schües, Christina; Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph; et al; 2022 (Springer Nature) – [only available online – open access e-book]

·         The transplant patient: biological, psychiatric, and ethical issues in organ transplantation; Trzepacz, Paula T, editor.; DiMartini, Andrea F, editor; 2000 (Cambridge University Press) – [only available online as a Keele e-book]*

·         Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice, 2021, 8^th edition (Elsevier) [E-book only available by Clinical Key for UHNM]

 

*N.B. NHS staff who are members of the Health Library can request a temporary Keele username which allows access to Keele e-resources from the Keele IT Suite in the Health Library within the CEC at Royal Stoke.

 

JOURNALS   

·         Transplant international (Online), European Society for Organ Transplantation, European Liver and Intestine Transplant Association. [Available as an open access e-journal from 1988 onwards]

·         American journal of transplantation (Online); American Society of Transplantation, American Society of Transplant Surgeons. [Available as an open access e-journal from 2001 onwards]

·         Liver transplantation (Online), American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, issuing body.; International Liver Transplantation Society. [Available as an open access e-journal from 1995-1999; thereafter, only available as a Keele e-journal]*

·         Transplantation direct, Transplantation Society, Wolters Kluwer. [Available as an open-access e-journal from 2015 onwards]

·         Cell transplantation (online), SAGE Publications Inc. [Available as an open access e-journal from 1992 onwards]

·         International journal of organ transplantation medicine; Iranian Society for Organ Transplantation, Avicenna Organ Transplant Institute. [Available as an open access e-journal from 2009 onwards]

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/  

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES  

·         “A systematic review comparing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant to gene therapy in sickle cell disease”; Rotin, Lianne E; Viswabandya, Auro; et al; Hematology (Luxembourg), 2023, Vol.28 (1), p.2163357-2163357; DOI: 10.1080/16078454.2022.2163357. [Available via open access e-journal]

·         “Efficacy of pre-emptive kidney transplantation for adults with end-stage kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis”; Azegami, Tatsuhiko; Kounoue, Noriyuki; et al; Renal failure, 2023, Vol.45 (1), p.2169618-2169618; DOI: 10.1080/0886022X.2023.2169618. [Available via an open access e-journal]

·         “The British Transplantation Society guidelines on cardiothoracic organ transplantation from deceased donors after circulatory death”; Pai, Vasudev; Asgari, Ellie; et al; Transplantation reviews (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2023, Vol.37 (4), p.100794-100794; DOI: 10.1016/j.trre.2023.100794. [Available via an open access e-journal]

·         “Assessing motivations for non-living and living organ donation among individuals with and without a history of blood donation.”, Christopher R France; Janis L France; Dominic W Ysidron; Benjamin Samstein; Transfusion Medicine, 2022; Vol. 32 (2), pp. 120-127. DOI: 10.1111/tme.12854 [Available via Keele and NHS ejournals]

·         “Changing to an Opt Out System for Organ Donation-Reflections From England and Netherlands.”, N. E. Jansen; C. Williment; B. J. J. M. Haase-Kromwijk; D. Gardiner; Transplant International, 2022, 4 July, Vol. 35 (10466). DOI: 10.3389/ti.2022.10466. [Available online as open access]

·         “Current status of organ donation after brain death in the UK.”; Manara, A. R.; Thomas, I.. Anaesthesia ; 2020, Vol. 75 (9), pp.1205-1214. DOI: 10.1111/anae.15038 [Available via Keele and NHS ejournals]

·         “Remapping the organ donation ethical climate: a care ethics consideration”, Hui Yun Chan; Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy; 2020; Vol. 23 (2), pp.295–308. DOI: 10.1007/s11019-019-09934-2 [Available via Keele and NHS ejournals]

·         “Informing the UK Muslim Community on Organ Donation: Evaluating the Effect of a National Public Health Programme by Health Professionals and Faith Leaders.”; Ali, Omar M. E.; Gkekas, Eleftherios; Ali, Ahmad M. S.; et al.; Journal of Religion & Health; 2023; Vol. 62 (3), 1716-1730. DOI: 10.1007/s10943-022-01680-9 [Available via Keele and NHS ejournals]

 

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:  

·         Organ donation - NHS Blood & Transplant website:

o   Organ Donation: Helping you decide: https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/helping-you-to-decide/about-organ-donation/faq/

·         NHS website:

o   Heart transplant: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/heart-transplant/

o   Kidney Transplant: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/kidney-transplant/

·         Charities:

o   Live Life Give Life: https://livelifegivelife.org.uk/

o   Transplants Patients Trust: https://transplantpatientstrust.org.uk/

·         Clinical Key – Patient Education [Available to UHNM only]:

o   Multi-organ transplant: https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_ad389e45-32d9-48a2-bf29-8d0371d72cfa

o   Organ transplantation information: https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_b0f9d330-f8a2-4c88-b38e-4b6ba281c874

o   Organ transplant eating plan: https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_d40b5b7e-9fa8-4d92-99c0-4d41b21e9536

 

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:   

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians. For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/.  

Patient Safety Day

 

September 17^th 

Patient Safety is the cornerstone to ensuring positive and safe healthcare administration and support for all human beings. Today brings patient safety to the spotlight and highlights the continued need for improvement and eliminating patient harm worldwide.

Feel free to access the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety on your ClinicalKey account: https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/browse/journal/15537250/1-s2.0-S1553725023X00075

The Sepsis Game - Available to borrow!

 As it is World Sepsis Day on Sunday 13th September we would like to promote the fact that the Health Library at County has an educational game based on Sepsis which is available for loan to individuals or groups with health library membership. (It is easy enough to play in a Covid secure way by allocating people to the question cards and board and spacing out in a room). If requested library staff would be happy to facilitate a session. Games can be played by 2-12 players. It can be used as an ice-breaker for a study session or played to the end over a longer period of up to an hour and is suitable for all clinical staff or students in any healthcare setting.

Produced by Focus Games in association with The Sepsis Trust UK and NHS England, the game is described on their website as:

"A fun and informative board game that helps clinical staff improve their knowledge and management of sepsis. Based around the Sepsis Six care bundle and supporting the Survive Sepsis training programme, it stimulates discussion about improving identification and treatment of sepsis".

Further details about the game as outlined on Focus Games website are that:

The Sepsis Game is designed to raise awareness of sepsis and ensure that clinical staff always “think sepsis”. By playing the game, staff will learn about the importance of spotting sepsis early and escalating treatment.

The Sepsis Game is a unique way of bringing staff together to discuss the challenges of sepsis, a condition which is everyone’s responsibility to recognise and manage. Two teams compete against each other, progressing round the board by providing answers to questions about sepsis. Answers are developed through discussions within the team, allowing players to explore each other’s perspectives, which is particularly useful for multidisciplinary team training.

 Topics covered in the game include:   

o    Prevalence and impact of sepsis

o    Causes of sepsis

o    Recognising sepsis

o    What to do when sepsis is suspected

o    Treatment (including Sepsis Six)

(https://shop.focusgames.com/products/the-sepsis-game)

Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week 2023

 

September 11^th to 15^th 

Rheumatoid Arthritis affects around 400,000 people in the UK (NHS, 2023). This awareness week is focused on eliminating misconceptions through education – and empowering those living with RA with information and support.

Find out more about Rheumatoid Arthritis here: Clinical Key

 

Self Care September 

Self-care isn't selfish. It's essential.