Librarians, palliative care specialists, web technicians, marketing experts and others work together to provide information on palliative care. The librarians' role includes development of search filters.

1. Palliative Care Knowledge for All
Australians: Librarians’ Work within a
Multidisciplinary Team Creating a
National Health Knowledge Network
Sarah Hayman and Jennifer Tieman
IFLA World Library and Information
Congress
Cape Town, August 2015

2. Who are we?
Sarah Hayman
Research Fellow (Evidence), Flinders
Filters, Flinders University (formerly with
CareSearch)
Jennifer Tieman
Associate Professor, Palliative and
Supportive Services; Director of
CareSearch; Chief Investigator of
Flinders Filters
CareSearch
Flinders Filters

3. What I shall cover today
• Introduction to CareSearch
• Evidence based information and CareSearch
• Teamwork and CareSearch
• Librarians in CareSearch
• Anatomy of a CareSearch Hub
• Concluding Remarks

4. Introduction to CareSearch

7. Evidence Based Information and CareSearch
CareSearch:
– identifies evidence
– enables access to evidence
– supports creation of evidence
through research
– bases service provision on
evidence
• website design
• user engagement
• communication
• education and training
• evaluation
• continuous improvement

8. Evidence Based Information and CareSearch … ctd.

9. The Knowledge Translation Cycle
http://ktclearinghouse.ca/knowledgebase/knowledgetoaction

10. Teamwork and CareSearch

11. Librarians in CareSearch
Smart
Searching

12. Search Filter Development
1. Establish Expert Advisory Group
2. Determine scope
3. Investigate literature terminology
4. Create gold standard set
5. Divide into subsets: Term Identification, Filter Development and Filter
Validation
6. Identify and test candidate search terms
7. Build and test search strategy
8. Validate strategy’s sensitivity in the Filter Validation set
9. Validate strategy’s sensitivity in an external validation set if available
10.Assess precision through post hoc relevance testing
11.Translate the search filter for PubMed
12.Develop expert topic searches
13.Publish, communicate, disseminate, promote
14.Provide training

13. Anatomy of a CareSearch Hub

14. Concluding Thoughts
• Multidisciplinary team members in CareSearch supplement each
other’s broad range of skills
• Librarians’ skills include:
o skills in finding, analysing and organising information
o supporting information needs
o training users in information literacy
• Colleagues’ skills include:
o clinical and research experience in palliative care
o Skills in knowledge translation
o technical web expertise and experience
o Skills in marketing
o Expertise in public administration and finance
• In the supporting academic context, both education and research are
integral
• Triple strand of activity supports and delivers palliative care: clinical
practice, research and education

15. Thank you
Sarah Hayman
sarah.hayman@flinders.edu.au
Jennifer Tieman
jennifer.tieman@flinders.edu.au
www.caresearch.com.au
CareSearch and Flinders
Filters teams

16. CareSearch would like to thank the many people
who contribute their time and expertise to the project, including
members of the National Advisory Group and the Knowledge
Network Management Group.
CareSearch is funded by the Australian Government
Department of Health.
www.caresearch.com.au