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| Number of items found: 18 | Access Medicine-Patient Information| Provider: | McGraw-Hill (About) | | Description: | AccessMedicine provides daily updated medical information that is culled from a variety of well-respected medical textbooks including Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine and Hurst's the Heart to support both the clinician and student in quick clinical decision-making and continued education.
The database's online features include a drug index, reference guide to common laboratory tests, differential diagnosis tool, video and image gallery, clinical and basic science series, case files, practice guidelines, patient handouts, and board preparation materials. It serves as a source for critical background information.
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| ACP PIER (Physicians' Information and Education Resource) & AHFS Dl Essentials| Provider: | STAT!Ref (About) | | Description: | ACP PIER is a collection of evidence-based modules that functions as a comprehensive online clinical support tool for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases at point-of-care. ACP PIER provides critically appraised topics such as evidence syntheses and guidelines. It evaluates and summarizes medical litearture into concise guidance statements, and offers specific recommendations that are supported by clinical evidence for quick decision-making; evidence is appraised through a rating system.
Information is organized and delivered via easy-to-use drop down menu lists. The database also links out to reliable patient education resources. AHFS DI Essentials provides drug therapy monographs concerning prescription and OTC drugs that are derived from the full evidence-based guidelines found in AHFS DI.
| | Note: | Find out more about searching PIER on our Tutorials page. |
| Consumer Health Complete| Provider: | Ebsco (About) | | Description: | Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive health information database designed to provide patients with reliable health education materials concerning drugs, diseases, preventive medicine, and common medical topics.
The database includes patient geared evidence-based reports, alternative medicine information, concise fact sheets, and easy-to-read health education pamphlets. It serves as an online resource for patient education handout resources for both consumers and healthcare providers.
Medical literature is culled from a number of reputable resources such as reference books, organizations, academic journals, encyclopedias, and healthcare reports. Information is updated regularly. HONcode certified.
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| DynaMed| Provider: | Ebsco (About) | | Description: | DynaMed is a collection of systematically reviewed evidence-based syntheses that provides physicians with quick clinical answers at point of patient care. The evidence is organized into easy-to-read structured abstracts. The database covers nearly 3000 topics and 500 medical journals, and is updated daily.
DynaMed serves as an online clinical support tool for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases. It utilizes a strict seven step evidence-based methodology when selecting and critically appraising evidence. The database also links out to reliable patient education materials; providing physicians with ready to use patient handouts.
DynaMed's 7-Step Evidence-based Methodology overview
| | Note: | To find patient information handouts from the database, first search or browse for your appropriate subject term and select it; then choose the Patient Information tab from the list of sub-categories that appears under the selected search term. |
| Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health| Provider: | Thomson Gale (About) | | Description: | Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health is an integrated health information database that provides consumers and healthcare providers with reliable patient health education materials concerning diseases, drugs, alternative medicine, health topics, and overall wellness. Information is updated regularly.
The resource includes patient-geared concise fact sheets, easy-to-read health education pamphlets, and full-text articles. Medical literature is culled from a number of reputable references including the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine and Harvard Health Publications.
The database other online features include various health and risk assessment tools, a health information directory, and medical videos. Health and Wellness Resource Center also links to several trusted medical and health sites.
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| Health Source: Consumer Edition| Provider: | Ebsco (About) | | Description: | Health Source: Consumer Edition delivers comprehensive patient healthcare information concerning diseases, drugs and major health topics. Examples of subjects covered include nutrition, general health, childcare, sports medicine, and behavioral health. The online resource is updated daily.
Medical information is provided by a number of sources including consumer health magazines, journals, reference books, the Clinical Reference Systems reports, and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which provides access to patient drug education handouts. The database also supplies users with a medical dictionary for reference.
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| MD Consult--Patient Information| Provider: | Elsevier (About) | | Description: | MDConsult is an integrated collection of medical resources that provides healthcare professionals with quick and reliable answers to clinical questions at point-of-care.
The database includes peer-reviewed clinical practice guidelines, customizable patient-education handouts, drug information materials through Gold Standard, continuing education credit opportunities, full-content privileges for over 80 journals, and full-text access to over 50 leading medical reference books. MDConsult also links to current medical news.
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| MEDLINE - Ebsco| Provider: | Ebsco (About) | | Description: | MEDLINE is the authoritative bibliographic database of The National Library of Medicine, delivering comprehensive scientific records to articles in the life and biomedical sciences. The coverage of material is extensive and international in scope.
The database provides users with citations to articles from over 4,000 academic journals in medicine, the basic sciences, nursing, dentistry, history of medicine, and health services research. Citations and abstracts are categorized according to the NLM MeSH system for easy retrieval.
The EBSCO MEDLINE search interface allows users to focus and limit searches, and search by NLM medical subject headings. An evidence-based medicine search limiter pulls EBM reviews.
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| MEDLINE - Ovid| Date Range: | [1950-present] | | Provider: | Ovid (About) | | Description: |
MEDLINE is the authoritative bibliographic database of The National Library of Medicine, delivering comprehensive scientific records to articles in the life and biomedical sciences from 1950 to the present. The coverage of material is extensive and international in scope.
The database provides users with over 16 million citations to articles from over 4,000 academic journals in medicine, the basic sciences, nursing, dentistry, history of medicine, and health services research. The database also includes access to PREM. Citations and abstracts are categorized according to the NLM MeSH system for easy retrieval.
The OVID MEDLINE search interface allows users to focus and limit searches, and automatically map to NLM subject headings. An evidence-based medicine search limiter searches MEDLINE, DARE, ACP Journal Club, and Cochrane for EBM literature.
Note:See individual database descriptions for more detailed information.
| | Note: | This database provides evidence-based medical literature through search-limiter options |
| MEDLINEPlus| Provider: | U.S. National Institutes of Health / National Library of Medicine (About) | | Description: | MEDLINEPlus is a freely accessible database of comprehensive patient health education materials put out by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. The database provides consumers with authoritative information on over 700 conditions, and is updated daily.
Other online features of MEDLINEPlus include a physician, hospital and dental directory, medical encyclopedia and dictionary, drug index, medical news service, and links to clinical trials.
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| Micromedex--CareNotes System| Provider: | Thomson Healthcare (About) | | Description: | Micromedex Healthcare Series is a drug information database that provides evidence syntheses of prescribed and OTC medications. Drug pharmacology material is delivered via an outline format that facilitates the rapid clinical assessment of current drug therapies. The database organizes critically relevant literature covering diseases and drug treatments into fully referenced guidelines and statements.
As a comprehensive clinical decision support tool, Micromedex also provides information regarding alternative treatments, patient education, and laboratory tests. Evidence for this resource varies from expert opinion to high levels of evidence. Customizable patient education materials concerning conditions and drugs are delivered through the database's CareNotes System.
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| Natural & Alternative Treatments| Provider: | Ebsco (About) | | Description: | Natural & Alternative Treatments is a complementary and alternative medicine database of evidence-based natural health information.
The online resource allows users to search alphabetically within the following categories: Conditions, Herbs & Supplements, Drug Interactions, Alternative Therapies, and Functional Foods.
The database's contents are also provided in Spanish.
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| Natural Standard| Provider: | Natural Standard (About) | | Description: | Natural Standard systematically evaluates scientific data from the fields of complementary and alternative medicine, synthesizing and organizing the material into peer-reviewed and evidence-graded monographs. Monographs are provided at both the professional and consumer level to promote both informed clinical decision-making and patient education.
Monographs covering functional foods, herbs, and supplements critically review the safety, efficacy, pharmacology, and contraindications of such natural treatments. Searching by indication, comparative efficacy charts analyze and systematically grade the effectiveness of conventional and alternative treatments for the prevention and management of diseases. Evidence tables examining the reliability of current literature are provided as well.
Other online features include an interactive symptoms checker, online health calculators as well as databases on genomics, environmental resources, and health and wellness.
| | Note: | To find patient information handouts from the database, first browse for your appropriate subject term and select it; then choose the flashcard or bottom-line monograph option from the list of resources that appear. |
| Nursing Reference Center--Patient Information| Provider: | Ebsco (About) | | Description: | Nursing Reference Center is a comprehensive clinical-decision support resource that provides nurses with critical evidence-based medical information at point-of-care. Evidence is evaluated and distilled into easy to read structured summaries and guidelines that aid nurses in informed and quick clinical decision making. The core of the database includes evidence-based care sheets, evidence-based patient education handouts, and evidence-based quick lessons for nursing procedures.
The database's other online features include nursing reference books, legal cases, diagnostic tests, point-of-care drug information, medical illustrations, links to practice guidelines from The National Guideline Clearinghouse, research instruments, and continuing education materials.
| | Note: | Uses a different search interface from EBSCOhost |
| Pillbox  | Provider: | U.S. National Institutes of Health / National Library of Medicine (About) | | Description: | Pillbox enables rapid identification of unknown solid-dosage medications (tablets/capsules) based on physical characteristics and high-resolution images. |
| Pubmed| Date Range: | [1947-present] | | Provider: | NCBI (About) | | Description: |
MEDLINE is the authoritative bibliographic database of The National Library of Medicine, delivering comprehensive scientific records to articles in the life and biomedical sciences from 1950 to the present. The coverage of material is extensive and international in scope.
MEDLINE is the principal component of PubMed's search service system. PubMed provides free access to PreMEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, MEDLINE, and also includes in-process and out of scope citations. PubMed provides users with over 19 million citations to articles from over 5,000 academic journals in medicine, the basic sciences, nursing, dentistry, history of medicine, and health services research. In addition, the search engine links to NLM's integrated molecular biology databases.
The PubMed search interface allows users to limit and focus searches. Citations and abstracts are categorized according to the NLM MeSH system for easy retrieval. An evidence-based medicine search limiter pulls systematic reviews, controlled clinical trials, and practice guidelines from the database. Evidence-based literature may also be retrieved through PubMed's Clinical Queries feature.
Note: See Clinical Queries database description for more detailed information.
| | Note: | This database provides evidence-based medical literature through search-limiter options. |
| TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice) Database--Patient Information| Provider: | TRIP Database Limited (About) | | Description: | Turning Research Into Practice Database (TRIP) is an evidence-based meta-search engine that provides healthcare professionals with the evidence needed to answer clinical questions in a timely manner. The database delivers pre-appraised medical literature in the form of systematic reviews, critically appraised individual articles, and practice guidelines.
Trip is freely accessible and simultaneously searches multiple evidence-based resources. The database also searches unfiltered information and provides medical images, e-textbooks, and patient information handouts.
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| UpToDate: Patient Information| Provider: | UpToDate (About) | | Description: | UpToDate Patient Information is a clinical information database of reliable consumer-level health topic reviews. The online resource provides patients with easy-to-read medical education materials concerning conditions and treatments.
The database organizes patient education materials under browsable health topic categories to facilitate searching.
Note: Due to licensing restrictions, remote access is not permitted.
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