CORE RESOURCES
For Nursing & Allied Health
Medical Directories and Search Engines
- HardinMeta Directory of Internet Health Sources
From the University of Iowa; lists of meta sites organized by subject and categorized by size.
- Mednets
Commercially produced medical search engine which allows searching by patients or by medical professionals. Includes databases, journals, news sources and associations and societies.
- Intute: Health & Life Sciences (formerly known as OMNI)
Catalogs internet based medical resources in and outside of the U.K. using the National Library of Medicine classification system and MESH headings.
- Scirus
"The most comprehensive science-specific search engine available on the Internet ...[which] enables scientists, students and anyone searching for scientific information to chart and pinpoint data, locate university sites and find reports and articles quickly and easily."
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Collections of Biomedical Links
- All Refer.com: Health
Parterning with A.D.A.M., Inc. to provide current, comprehensive, credible, physician-reviewed healthcare information, including photographs.
- CDC (Centers for disease Control and Prevention)
Under the US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC collects and disseminates health information and data for the United States
, works to educate the public about means of promoting health and preventing illness and with other health agencies and organizations to prevent the spread of infectious disease.
- Mayo Clinic
Authoritative information from a non-profit medical practice dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of virtually every type of complex illness.
- Med Web
From the Emory University Health Sciences Center.
- Medical Reference for Non-medical Librarians
From the Denison Memorial Library at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
- Medscape from WebMD
Timely, integrated, and credible health information, educational tools for managing health, and support for specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals.
- MedlinePlus: Trusted Health Information for You
A collection of authoritative health information from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institute of Health, and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Includes drug information, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.
- MEL: Health Information Resources
The Health, Medicine, & Wellness section of the Michigan eLibrary. Scroll down to Recommended Web Sites for annotated lists of evaluated web sites.
- World Health Organization (WHO)
“WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system.…responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.”
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Evidence Based Practice
- ACP Journals Club
(Note: this resource is available from on campus only)
Selects and summarizes recent biomedical literature reporting original studies and systematic reviews.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Part of the Department of Health and Human Services. Includes a section on evidence-based practice, including research report summaries.
- Bandolier
From Oxford U., a print and Internet journal about health care, using evidence-based medicine techniques to provide advice about particular treatments or diseases for healthcare professionals and consumers.
- ClinicalTrials.gov
From the National Institutes of Health. Provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research. Includes trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and contacts.
- Cochrane Collaboration
A international consortium devoted to reviewing the international medical research literature. Click on Cochrane Library to access the searchable database and abstracts.
- Current Controlled Trials
A searchable metaregister of controlled trials including National Institutes of Health Clinical Trials.
- EBM Online
Non-subscribers have access to tables of contents and abstracts.
- Evidence Based Tutorial from UNC, Chapel Hill
See the links under Evidence Based Practice.
- National Guideline Clearinghouse
A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHEQ), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
- PEDro:The Physiotherapy Evidence Database
Abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy. Includes a tutorial on how to tell if clinical trials are valid and clinically useful.
- TRIP Database
"Access to the largest collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web as well as articles from premier on-line journals such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM etc."
- User's Guides to Evidence Based Medicine
From the Centres for Health Evidence, guides to using the medical literature in clinical practice. Start by reading: How to use a clinical practice guideline.
- Evidence Based Medicine Resources and Nursing Resources for Evidence Based Practice
From the Medical College of Virginia at VCU. A great list of links covering everything from research designs and levels of evidence to clinical materals.
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Reference
- Atlases
- Career:
- Occupational Outlook Handbook
Describes nature of work, working conditions, training, salary and job outlook for over 250 occupations. From the US Department of Labor.
- Calculators:
- Dictionaries and Abbreviations:
- Education
- HEAL: Health Education Assets Library
"A digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of
the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and
learners."
- Indexes:
(Note: With the exception of MEDLINE, you must log in to use these indexes from off campus.)
- Books@Ovid
- CINAHL
(Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Index)
Index to journals.
- Pre-CINAHL
Provides current awareness of new journal articles,which enables users to gain access to article citations that otherwise would not be available. Once the the articles are indexed, they are added to the CINAHL database and removed from Pre-CINAHL.
- Health & Wellness Resource Center
Index to reference books, magazines, journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and videos. Searching is by keyword.
- Health Reference Center Academic
Same magazine, journal and pamphlet content as above, but allows searching by subject headings as well as keyword. Includes some online media.
- MEDLINE
Extensive medical database from the National Library of Medicine PubMed or Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
- Encyclopedias:
(Note: You must log in to use the encyclopedias from off campus)
- Manuals:
- Medical Web Site Evaluation
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Learn to Use Medical Library Resources
(see also individual program pages)
From the NVCC Medical Education Campus Library:
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This collection is maintained by Kathryn Willis and was last updated on 7/23/08.
