Clinical Care Tools
- AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window
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Online collection of medical reference texts that provide medical data. Access the information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses, case management decisions, conducting research, medical education, or self-assessment and board review. - ACP Journal Club Archives This link opens in a new window
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Database of quality-assessed, clinically rated original studies and reviews from over 130 clinical journals. - BMJ Best Practice This link opens in a new window
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Best Practice brings together regularly updated research evidence and guidelines with peer-reviewed expert opinion. Healthcare professionals get information they can trust quickly — and in an intuitive format that recognizes the demands of everyday clinical practice. Best Practice is the only point of care tool to include a clinical workflow component, anticipating clinical questions and providing answers in seconds without sifting through large quantities of text. - CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new window
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Database of literature related to nursing and allied health. Journals are indexed from the following fields: cardiopulmonary technology, physical therapy, emergency service, physician assistant, health education, radiologic technology, medical/ laboratory, technology therapy, medical assistant, social service/health care, medical records, surgical technology, and occupational therapy. Available through Ebscohost. - ClinicalKey This link opens in a new window
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ClinicalKey is a dynamic clinical resource designed to provide physicians with fast, clinically-relevant answers from Elsevier’s enormous library of proprietary medical and surgical content. ClinicalKey was built specifically to meet the search needs of physicians that a clinical resource be comprehensive, trusted, and fast. - ClinicalTrials.gov This link opens in a new windowDeveloped by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Provides current information about clinical research studies. Available at http://clinicaltrials.gov
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
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The Cochrane Library (ISSN 1465-1858) is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The Cochrane Library is owned by Cochrane and published by Wiley.
Cochrane Library includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and Cochrane Clinical Answers. - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) This link opens in a new windowFull text database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews regarding diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening, and treatment. Available through Ebscohost.
- Health Technology Assessment (HTA) This link opens in a new windowA database that offers studies of the medical, social, ethical, and economic implications of healthcare interventions. Contains ongoing and completed research based on trials, questionnaires and economic evaluations.
- ECRI Guidelines Trust This link opens in a new windowA source for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans.
- NatMed Pro This link opens in a new windowAn evidence-based database created by the editors of Pharmacist’s Letter and Prescriber’s Letter that contains monographs on natural medicines, including safety, effectiveness, adverse reactions, interactions, and dosage and administration.
- Ovid This link opens in a new window
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The largest biomedical information database in the world. Produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Also available through PubMed.
Ovid also provides access to:- MEDLINE In Process and Other Non-Indexed Citations, which offers basic information about articles received, but not yet completely indexed in MEDLINE.
- Old MEDLINE, a database for articles from international biomedical journals covering the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences, and allied health sciences, originally printed in hardcopy indexes published from 1946 through 1965.
- PDQ (Physician Data Query) This link opens in a new windowContains information about cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care, plus clinical trials. Produced by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
- APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
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Covers literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, and physiology. - PubMed This link opens in a new windowIncludes citations for biomedical articles back to 1948. This is the interface to Medline produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
- Scopus This link opens in a new window
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The largest abstract and citation database in the world. Covers 18,000 journals from more than 5,000 international publishers. Scopus also covers 359 million quality web sources, including 24 million patents.
- TRIP DatabaseThe TRIP (Turning Research into Practice) Database is a clinical search engine designed to allow clinicians to quickly find answers to their clinical questions using the best available evidence. Registration is free.
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An evidence-based clinical information resource specifically designed to answer clinical questions that arise in daily practice. - VisualDx This link opens in a new window
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This web-based visual decision support database combines medical images with a problem-oriented findings-based search. Search by diagnosis, medication, or patient finding, or use the differential diagnosis builder.
