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Primary Care Electronic Library (PCEL) Community Health Sciences St. George's, University of London Cranmer Terrace, London, SW17 0RE Email: pcel@sgul.ac.uk
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Overview: [ Team - Publications - Biomedical Informatics ]

The Primary Care Electronic Library (PCEL) is maintained and developed as the topic of a research project investigating the formative evaluation of healthcare digital libraries. PCEL has no commercial funding and does not accept advertising. Based at St. George's, University of London (SGUL) the project is part of the Community Health Sciences Department. PCEL aims to provide a comprehensive searchable directory of information relating to Primary Care. Based in the UK there is an intentional bias to native resources, but this in no means precludes the incorporation of international material. The content of PCEL is quality assured, having been assessed for relevance by qualified medical professionals and members of the PCEL team.

An important part of the project is the classification of PCEL resources according to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and the Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT). MeSH indexing is performed manually by members of the PCEL team. The majority of resources were classified by a qualified librarian and the remainder have been categorised under the supervision of the SGUL Library Services. Mapping between MeSH and SNOMED CT has been reduced to an automated task, thanks to excellent software ( Unified Medical Language System ) provided by the National Library of Medicine

We appreciate the assistance given by the Computing Services of SGUL, and also the assistance given by the Library Services in the supervision of MeSH indexing.

Team: [ Overview - Publications - Biomedical Informatics ]

Simon de Lusignan Bachelor of Science - BSc (Biochemistry, London, 1979). Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery - MB BS (London, 1982). Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists - DRCOG (1985). Joint Certifciate of Postgraduage Training in General Practice - JCPGTGP Certificate (1987, No 12988). Member of the Royal Collage of General Practitioners - MRCGP (1987). Master of Science - MSc (Health Informatics, Surrey, 2002). Doctor of Medicine - MD (Research, University of London, 2005).	Project Lead	slusigna@sgul.ac.uk	Biomedical Informatics Community Health Sciences St. George's, University of London Cranmer Terrace London SW17 0RE
Patty Kostkova Master of Science - MSc (Computer Science Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1995). Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Computer Science, City University, London, UK, 1999).	Supervisor	patty@soi.city.ac.uk	Institute of Health Sciences Gloucester Building G511 City University Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB
Dame Lesley Southgate	Supervisor	l.southgate@sgul.ac.uk	Professor of Medical Education St George's, University of London Medical and Healthcare Education 1st Floor Hunter Wing Cranmer Terrace London SW17 0RE
Bruce Madge Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals- FCLIP Diploma in the History of Medicine of the Society of Apothecaries - DHMSA. Postgraduate Certificate in Health Informatics - PGCert HI.	Supervisor	bruce.madge@bma.org.uk	The Library British Medical Association Tavistock Square London WC1H 9JP
Judas Robinson Bachelor of Arts - BA (Physiological Sciences, Oxford, 1993).	Researcher	jsrobins@sgul.ac.uk	Biomedical Informatics Community Health Sciences St. George's, University of London Cranmer Terrace London SW17 0RE
Online contributers PCEL would like to thank those who have contributed material through our online site submission.

Publications: [ Overview - Team - Biomedical Informatics ]

Robinson J, de Lusignan S, Kostokova P, Madge B, Southgate L. Specific classification of elibrary resources says more about users' preferences. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2006:124; 719-723.

Robinson J, de Lusignan S, Kostokova P, Madge B. Using UMLS to map from a library to a clinical classifiction: Improving the functionality of a digital library. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2006:121; 86-95.

de Lusignan S, Robinson J. Information Systems in Primary Care. Practice Nurse. 2006;31(3): 16-20.

Robinson J, de Lusignan S and Kostkova P. The Primary Care Electronic Library (PCEL) five years on: open source evaluation of usage. Informatics in Primary Care. 2005;13(4): 271-280. [ MEDLINE ]

Robinson J, de Lusignan S, Kostkova P and Southgate L. Developing a digital library: the evolution of the Primary Care Electronic Library (PCEL). Acta Informatica Medica. 2005;13(4): 31-37.

de Lusignan S, Brown A and Pritchard K. The Primary Care National electronic Library for Health (NeLH-PC): a pilot of information-centred knowledge management for primary care - www.nelh-pc.nhs.uk. Informatics in Primary Care. 2002;10(2): 99-105. [ Abstract ]

de Lusignan S, Pritchard K and Chan T. A knowledge-management model for clinical practice. Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. 2002;48(4): 297-303. [ Full Text ]

Brown A, de Lusignan S, Robinson J, Pritchard K. The Primary Care electronic Library for Health. The British Journal of Healthcare Computing and Information Management. 2002;19(4): 22-5.

Muir Gray JA, de Lusignan S. National electronic Library for Health (NeLH). British Medical Journal 1999;319: 476-9. [ Full Text ]

Biomedical Informatics: [ Overview | Team | Publications ]

The PCEL project is part of a larger working group based in the Community Health Sciences Department at SGUL. This group, formerly known as Primary Care Informatics, is now delivering the first undergraduate entry course in Biomedical Informatics to be taught in the UK. Other areas of intrest include quality analysis of data collected from General Practice computer systems providing feedback relating to the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) - Primary Care Data Quality.

Last updated: Thursday 6th May 2010