Caresearch - Palliative care knowledge network
ABOUT CARESEARCH
CareSearch palliative care knowledge network is a free online resource consolidating evidence-based and quality information for various groups within the palliative care community. It is part of the Australian Knowledge Network in palliative care project. The project is overseen by the Knowledge Network Management Group which brings together expertise from various fields and disciplines such as medicine, nursing, sociology, education, marketing and informatics. A National Advisory Group provides a sounding body and an exchange point for promotion and linkage into constituencies. The project and the website are funded by the Australian Government as part of the National Palliative Care Program.
Materials included within the CareSearch website are subject to various review processes for quality and relevance. There is also a mechanism for monitoring new literature and pages, with content pages provided to project staff or associates and community members for comment in the development stage before being formally assessed by an external reviewer. Formal review of all content pages is carried out every two years.
Resources for Students
The following sections may be of particular interest to those who are studying:
- CareSearch Nurses Information Newsletter
- Monthly newsletter which provides information about evidence based palliative care and introduces resources within CareSearch highlighting their usefulness to nurses http://www.caresearch.com.au/caresearch/ProfessionalGroups/Nurses/CNINCareSearchNursesInformationNewsletter/tabid/884/Default.aspx
Clinical practice section (with related PubMed Searches) - information on physical and psycho-social symptoms
- Pages for patients, carers, families and friends
- Specific populations (population health approach to those who may have differential access such as the homeless)
- Finding evidence (a comprehensive section that helps to address the evidence-practice gaps)
- Helps build understanding of what is meant by evidence; how to find, appraise and apply evidence; and issues in communicating evidence and reducing evidence-practice gaps
- Provides tools to enhance access to literature and evidence including automated PubMed searches on palliative care topics, citations for systematic reviews in palliative care and the facility to create a PubMed Search Topic using the palliative care filter.
- Finding services section (state based)
- Find a palliative care service, organisation, care resources anywhere in Australia
- Indigenous Resources offer collated web-based resources with a quick link from the home page
- Research Resources outline how to conduct research in palliative care and provide information on the Research Data Management System, an online survey resource.
CareSearch brings together these resources, making them available through the internet where they can be accessed from anywhere in Australia, whenever they are needed. CareSearch is an online resource funded by the Department of Health and Ageing to help clinicians find relevant evidence about palliative care. Available now at www.caresearch.com.au
