For a period of 30 days following the expiry date, it
is possible to use MiDatank
normally. Once the 30 days grace period has passed, the Enquiry
Manager will revert to 'read-only' mode.
If the network becomes unavailable
it will not be possible to connect to the enquiries database,
or to enter or view enquiry data. You should contact the
network administrator at your Trust IT department to resolve
the situation.
Is there
anything I need to do regarding maintenance of MiDatabank?
Regular back-ups of the database
and the file attachments should be done by your Trust IT department.
Please see the the Help section of this web-site.
What
telephones and headsets are other MI Centres using?
There are a variety of options
available. Your hospital switchboard may be able to help or
advise if the hospital is able to purchase this type of equipment
under any special local contract/pricing arrangements.
No, MI Centres should not need
to engage in this activity any longer because journals are
indexed so rapidly on Embase and Medline and these databases
are freely available to the NHS. Non-Embase journals such as
Prescriber are available via Pharm-line.
In order to search only journals kept in one MI centre it
is recommended that MI staff save a search pattern in Datastar-Dialog
limited to the journals that they keep in their own MI centre.
This can then be retrieved whenever a local journal search
is needed.
How can
MiDatabank be loaded onto a laptop for use by pharmacists on-call?
MiDatabank can be installed
onto a laptop, in the same way as it is installed on a workstation.
However, the laptop should have network access, most likely
by a wireless connection.
