The Clinical Evidence Based Information Service (CEBIS) is available free to all UHCW staff.
Whether you have a question about the best treatment option for a particular patient, a difference of opinion with a colleague about the “best” approach to a clinical intervention or like to ensure that you are up to date on the latest evidence based research in your area – CEBIS has you covered.
Writing guidelines for UHCW? Find out more about our Guidelines service.
Finding evidence
We can carry out evidence searches to support your clinical decision making, service changes and practice improvements. We can't carry out searches if they are intended to support academic assignments. Visit our Training pages to find out how we can help you with academic work.
Supporting your clinical specialty
Whether it is setting up or attending journal clubs, to a presence at MDT sessions or even ward rounds to undertake “rapid searches” CEBIS can work to ensure that your Specialty has access to the most up to date and relevant clinical evidence when you need it.
Undertaking research
Writing a systematic review, research paper, or conference paper? CEBIS can help you to search the literature and find the evidence. For systematic reviews this would include creating search strategies, administrating the results, and applying inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Publishing your work
If you are going to write a Patient Information Leaflet, guideline, or standard operating procedure then come to us for the evidence you need to write it well. Need support with a literature search for an article you wish to submit to a journal or for a conference presentation? We can help there too.
Staying current
We can help you stay abreast of the latest research in your clinical area.
Talk to us about tailoring current awareness searches that best suit your needs and those of your team.
Get in touch
Submit a literature search request
Email us: CEBIS@uhcw.nhs.uk
Follow us on Twitter: @UHCW_CEBIS
Find out more about our Guidelines service.
Critical Appraisal
Once you've found the evidence you need, the next step is to appraise your papers and establish whether their methods - and results - could be applicable to the patients in your care.
You'll find guidance to the critical appraisal process, as well as links to lots of useful resources in our Introduction to Critical Appraisal guide.
If you are new to critical appraisal and would like some guidance on reading papers, training is available both from the CEBIS and Knowledge Skills Training teams within the library.
An Illustrated Guide to CEBIS
Watch this short 5 minute animation of how CEBIS can give you the gift of time and take the heavy-lifting out of searching for the evidence you need to making clinical decisions and service improvements.
Getting Evidence into Practice
Each month we share here a selection of evidence searches we've recently completed to support UHCW staff in making clinical decisions, service improvements and writing guidelines.
Supporting Research
These posters showcase the role that CEBIS plays in ensuring that the research activity of UHCW staff is founded on high-quality evidence searching and robust research methods. Click the images below to expand.
