Databases
A-Z List
Databases by
Discipline
A-Z List of
Licensed Databases available to EVMS users
Additional,
freely available databases are included under "By
Discipline."
= Information about the database
By Discipline
Primary Research
Evidence Based
Medicine
Clinical "Point-of-Care" (brief synopses of best evidence)
Practice Guidelines
Consumer Health
- MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus, National
Library of Medicine’s and the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) consumer
health database featuring extensive information from
trusted sources on over 700 diseases and conditions.
-
Medical
Library Association's Top Ten Web Sites The Medical Library Association (MLA) has identified ten particularly useful
Web sites.
- CAPHIS The Consumer and Patient Health Section (CAPHIS) of the Medical Library
Association (MLA) has selected their top 100 consumer health Web sites.
- Healthfinder Since 1997,
healthfinder® has been recognized as a key resource for
finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services
information on the Internet. It comes from the US Department of Health and
Human Services.
- More>
Statistical
Sources
Human Genome
Sources
Computational Molecular Biology Sources
Database Information and Tutorials
EVMS network account holders can access these
resources from on-campus through a link on the main
Library Web page.
EVMS network account holders can access them
from off-campus via the EVMS
proxy server.
If you have questions about these resources,
please contact the Library (446-5851) or email the Information Desk (library@evms.edu).
For training information, call April Pace,
Education Coordinator, at
446-5846.
ACP Journal Club
EVMS resource
Description: ACP
Journal Club (ACPJC) is an evidence based surveillance and abstracting service
published by the American
College
of Physicians (ACP). It contains structured abstracts that summarize the
most important methodologically sound articles pertaining to clinical practice.
Search: Uses
'full-text' search techniques (the database will look for search terms in the
article text and title) to find abstracts. Indexed articles provide links to the
PubMed record and are available in full-text. The Basic
Search function allows you to enter key terms and phrases that will be
searched against the ACPJC collection. The Advance Search function
provides a search template that allows the use of Boolean logic
(AND/OR/NOT/NEAR) to combine search terms and search like terms. Click on the
SEARCH button in the tool bar at the top of the page. The default is the Basic
Search. Search results are displayed by the title of the article. Click on the
title and the full-text will be displayed.
Scope: Primary
and secondary (reviews and guidelines) clinical studies that meet key
methodological criteria are summarized and commented on by experts. Covers
internal medicine and primary care.
Use: Best used
for questions that can be addressed using clinical research, strongest for
therapy and prognosis, weaker for diagnosis and causation. (Foreground
Questions)
Validity:
Articles are selected if they report evidence that could change what
practitioners do. Explicit methods of selecting and summarizing articles are
described in the introduction.
Applicability:
Each abstract summarizes details about patients, practitioners and practices;
experts comment on clinical relevance.
Currency:
Publishing began in 1991. Six issues per year.
More: EVMS
associates can access ACP Journal Club through the
Electronic Journals Page.
ACP Medicine EVMS resource
Description: ACP
Medicine is an evidence-based internal medicine diagnosis and treatment
reference. Developed from WebMD® Scientific American® Medicine, ACP Medicine is
continually updated and is available in several print and electronic formats.
Search: ACP
Medicine is designed to allow the user to browse by topic or use a keyword
search function. ACP Medicine provides 'full-text' search techniques (the
database will look for search terms in the article text and title).
Scope: Covers the 15 subspecialties of internal medicine, plus key topics
in Women's Health, Preventive Medicine, Psychiatry, and more.
Use: Organized by
health condition and disease. ACP Medicine provides in-depth coverage of topics.
It is an excellent source for Background Questions.
Validity:
Content is
subject to editorial, peer and user review.
Applicability:
Narrative
summaries of conditions including sections on epidemiology.
Currency:.
Updates are ongoing and occur frequently.
Over 30% new content per year.
More: EVMS associates can
access ACP Medicine from
STAT!Ref.
ACP PIER
EVMS resource
Description:
PIER© is an evidence-based guidance tool designed to improve clinical care at
the point of care. PIER© is a product of ACP, The American College of
Physicians. It integrates and builds on other ACP-ASIM publications including
ACP Journal Club and MKSAP. Content derives from evidence-based synopses of the
literature on a condition or disease.
Search: PIER is
designed to allow the user to browse by topic or use a keyword search function.
PIER provides 'full-text' search techniques (the database will look for search
terms in the article text and title).
Scope: PIER© is a
collection of disease modules that can be searched, found alphabetically or
browsed by organ system. Subcategories for each disease are: Prevention,
Screening, Diagnosis, Consultation for Diagnosis, Hospitalization, Non-drug
Therapy, Drug Therapy, Patient Education, Consultation for Management, and
Follow-up.
Additional topics are addressed under Complementary and Alternative Medicine,
Ethical and Legal Issues and Procedures.
Use: Organized by
health condition and disease, optimized for quick review of disease management.
Most complete for prevention, diagnosis and therapy. (Background Questions)
Validity:
Content is
subject to editorial, peer and user review, relies on sources (e.g., ACP Journal
Club) for much of the filtering and appraisal of validity.
Applicability:
Quick access
to lists of key points in disease management. Guidelines are given for
application to patient care.
Currency:
Publishing
began in 2002. Updates are ongoing and occur frequently.
More: EVMS
associates can access ACP PIER from
STAT!Ref.
American Hospital Directory EVMS resource
Description: The American Hospital Directory provides online data for
over 6,000 hospitals.
Scope: The information about hospitals is built from both public and private
sources including Medicare claims data (MedPAR and OPPS), hospital cost reports,
and other files obtained from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS).
Currency: Frequent updates.
More: Call (757) 446-5851 for the user name and password.
Anatomy.TV
EVMS resource
Description: Anatomy.TV is
a suite of 3D interactive models of human anatomy. Intuitive controls
allow the user to zoom, rotate and peel away layers to educate and
communicate with an ease and directness that was never possible with
print. A wealth of supporting media, MRIs, X-rays, live-action movies
and animations are also included to supplement anatomy.tv's high
resolution, computer-generated models.
More: EVMS
users can access Anatomy.TV through the Library's home
page.
Bandolier
Free resource
Description: Each
month PubMed and the Cochrane
Library are searched for systematic reviews and meta-analyses published
in the recent past. Those that look remotely interesting are read, and where
they are both interesting and make sense, they appear in Bandolier, first in the
paper version and, after a few months, on the Web site.
Search: The entire site can be searched or topics can be browsed by
clicking on the journal issues or topic sections.
Scope: The impetus behind Bandolier was to find information about
evidence of effectiveness (or lack of it), and put the results forward as simple
bullet points of those things that worked and those that did not: a bandolier
with bullets. Information comes from systematic reviews, meta-analyses,
randomized trials, and from high quality observational studies.
Use: Content is
limited, but it does have a good training section, with tutorials and essays on
EBM principles.
Validity:
Content is
subject to editorial and peer review.
Currency:
Publishing
began in 1994. Updates are ongoing and occur frequently.
More:
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/index.html
Access to the
Web version of Bandolier is free.
BestBETs
(Best Evidence Topics) Free resource
Description: BETs
are clinically appraised topics developed in the Emergency Department of
Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to
real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the
literature.
Search: The
database can be searched using Boolean operators or browsed by title or topic.
Scope: Each Topic answers a carefully worded 3-part question, using a
structured approach to finding and reviewing the literature.
Use: Although BETs initially had an emergency medicine focus, there are a
significant number of BETs covering cardiothoracics, nursing, primary care and
pediatrics.
Validity: BETs
take into account the shortcomings of much current evidence, allowing physicians
to make the best of what there is.
Currency: Appraised topics provide the initial development date and the date
of the latest update.
More:
www.bestbets.org Access
is free.
CINAHL
EVMS resource
Description: The
CINAHL database is the authoritative source of information for the
professional literature of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and
healthcare. The database also includes relevant materials from
seventeen allied health disciplines, plus biomedicine, management,
behavioural sciences, health sciences librarianship, education, and
consumer health.
Search: CINAHL
tutorial
Scope: CINAHL database provides references to books, book
chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals, dissertations, educational software,
selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice,
nurse practice acts, critical paths, and research instruments. It
provides indexing for 2,857 journals with over 1,000,000 citations.
Currency: 1982 to present.
More: EVMS
users can access CINAHL through the Library's home
page.
Cochrane Library
EVMS resource
Description:
Cochrane’s Database of Systematic Reviews (DSR) is a collection of high quality
systematic reviews of controlled trials, including unpublished trials, produced
by groups of collaborators (researchers and practitioners) who are organized
through the Cochrane Collaboration. The Cochrane
Library
includes 7 other databases including: 1) Database of Abstracts of
Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) - critical assessments and structured abstracts
of good systematic reviews published elsewhere and 2) Cochrane Central Register
of Controlled Trials (CCRCT) - bibliographic information on controlled trials.
Search: Each
database within the Cochrane
Library
can be searched simultaneously by using the keyword search function
provided from the home page. Search results (number of hits) are listed
according to specific database. To display search results, click on the number
of hits located directly across from the database name. The search browser is
not organized by clinical conditions. Articles are indexed according to the
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Search by using the keyword search function for
the best results. Most articles are provided in full-text.
Scope:
Cochrane
Database of Systematic Reviews (DSR) includes planned [Protocol] and completed
[Review] reviews. The topics reflect the interests and priorities of Cochrane
Collaboration members.
Use: DSR is best for therapy or preventive care questions that can be addressed by
strong quantitative study designs. (Foreground Questions)
Does not cover Diagnosis at this time.
Validity:
Strictly
controlled methods for identifying, reviewing, and performing the meta-analysis
for evidence in each review. Extensive links to source evidence including
studies excluded from the review.
Applicability:
Systematic
reviews often include extensive sub-group analyses and policy considerations.
Effect sizes usually expressed as absolute risk reduction and number needed to
treat. Cumulative meta-analysis can be displayed for subgroups.
Currency:
Publishing
began in 1993. Updates occur quarterly, the date of last update is given for
each review. Substantive changes are highlighted.
More: EVMS associates can access
the Cochrane
Library through the library’s home page.
Current Index to Statistics (CIS)
EVMS
resource
Description: CIS
is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics, probability, and related
fields.
Search:
Supports keyword, author, title, and journal or book title queries.
Scope: References are drawn from 162
core journals (as of 2003) that are fully indexed, non-core journals from which
articles are selected that have statistical content, proceedings and edited
books, and other sources.
Currency: 1975 to present.
More: EVMS
users can access CIS through the Library's home
page.
DARE
Free resource
Description:
DARE is a
complimentary site produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD)
that searches a wide spectrum of medical literature including MEDLINE for
meta-analyses.
Search: DARE has
a well developed search function and supports Boolean and field searching.
Scope: DARE contains summaries of systematic reviews which have met
strict quality criteria. Included reviews have to be about the effects of
interventions. Potential reviews are identified by hand searching key medical
journals, regular searching of bibliographic databases, and by scanning gray
literature and selected Web sites.
Use: The database
covers a broad range of health and social care topics and can be used for
answering questions about the effects of interventions, as well as for
developing guidelines and policy making.
Validity: In order to ensure quality,
CRD has a policy of using two members of staff to independently select reviews
for inclusion and to produce each structured abstract.
Applicability:
Each summary also provides a critical commentary on the quality of the review.
Currency: DARE
was created by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination in 1994. It does,
however, include records that have an earlier publication date.
There are monthly updates to the Web site.
More:
www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/crddatabases.htm
Access
to DARE is free. Also available through the
Cochrane
Library.
DYNAMED
Description:
DynaMed
is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for use primarily at the
'point-of-care'. It contains clinically-organized summaries
for nearly 2,000 topics.
Search: The
database can be searched by keyword or browsed by condition or category.
Scope: Editors monitor the content of over 400 medical journals and
systematic evidence review databases.
Use: “Point-of-care” resource covering risk factors,
diagnosis, treatment, prevention, prognosis, and patient information.
Validity: Each publication is reviewed cover-to-cover, and
each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The
new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions
are changed as appropriate representing a synthesis of the best available
evidence. Through this process of systematic literature surveillance, the best
available evidence determines the content of DynaMed.
Currency: DynaMed is updated daily
More: EVMS
users can access DynaMed through the Library's
home page.
eMedicine (Free resource)
Description: Launched in 1996, www.eMedicine.com
comprises one of the largest and most current clinical
knowledge databases available to physicians and other
healthcare professionals.
Search: Search across all sections or browse by
condition in the Adult Medicine, Adult Surgery or Pediatrics
sections.
Scope: Nearly 10,000 physician authors and editors
contribute to the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base, which
contains articles on 7,000 diseases and disorders. The
database also contains 30,000 multimedia files and features
the largest online repository of medical education credits
for physicians, nurses, and optometrists.
Validity: eMedicine's professional content undergoes
4 levels of physician peer review plus an additional review
by a PharmD prior to publication.
Currency: The evidence-based content, updated
regularly, provides the latest practice guidelines in 59
medical specialties.
More: Register through the
eMedicine Web site
with Medscape to get free access.
ERIC
(OVID) EVMS resource
Description: The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a
digital library of education-related resources, sponsored by the
Institute of Education Sciences
of the U.S. Department of
Education. ERIC is the world's largest database of
journal and non-journal education literature containing nearly 1.2 million
citations going back to 1966.
Search: OVID
Tutorial
Scope: ERIC consists of two files: Resources in
Education, which covers the document literature, consisting of research
reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books; and
Current Index to Journals in Education, which covers published journal
literature from over 775 periodicals.
Currency: Over
30,000 records added annually.
More: EVMS
users can access ERIC through the Library's home
page.
EXAM MASTER ONLINE
EVMS resource
Description: EXAM MASTER ONLINE is an USMLE and board preparation
review tool that provides access to thousands of basic and clinical sciences
questions. The interface allows for quick and easy navigation, and provides the
ability to create customized practice exams and study blocks. The EXAM MASTER
testing interface closely matches what is actually used on the USMLE exam. This
new test mode interface includes other features found on the exam including the
ability to attach notes to each question.
Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)
EVMS resource
Description: Expanded Academic ASAP provides a combination of
abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals
covering all academic disciplines.
Search: The database can be searched by subject or keyword.
Scope: Contains 3,800 indexed and 2,200 full-text titles in a wide
variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals,
science and technology journals, medical journals, national news periodicals,
general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others.
Currency: 25 years of backfiles to present.
More: EVMS users can access InfoTrac through the
Library's home page.
Factiva®, from Dow Jones,
access is sponsored by the Virginia VIVA consortium of academic libraries.
Factiva provides essential business news and information together with the
content delivery tools and services that enable professionals to make better
decisions faster. Factiva’s unrivaled collection of more than 10,000
authoritative sources includes the exclusive combination of The
Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times™, Dow Jones and Reuters
newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and D&B
company profiles.
Faculty Publications Free EVMS Resource
Description: The Faculty Publications Database is a searchable catalog of
citations to articles, book chapters, and books by EVMS faculty. Citations are
selected for inclusion through monthly searches of the biomedical literature and
direct submissions by faculty members.
Search: The database can be searched using the author name, keyword,
periodical title, and publication date (All indexed fields), or by title,
abstract, or addresses (all non-indexed fields.) For example, to search for
articles published by a particular EVMS department, set the “Field to Search” to
All non-indexed fields, and enter the department under “Data to Locate.” The
search terms can be combined using the available Boolean operators (and, or,
not) located in the first column.
Currency: The database includes citations from July 1998 to the present.
More:
To make submissions, send an email to
hornbp@evms.edu.
FirstSearch
EVMS resource
Description: FirstSearch is an OCLC services providing access to 20
databases including WorldCat and ArticleFirst.
Search: The database supports Boolean (and, or, not) searching and offers
basic keyword searching and advanced field searching. Users can also limit a
search by database or topic.
Scope: FirstSearch offers access to more than 10 million full-text and
full-image articles on most research topics.
More: EVMS
users can access FirstSearch through the
Library's home page.
HarpWeek
EVMS
resource
Description: HarpWeek is the full text of Harper’s Weekly from 1857
through 1912.
More: EVMS
users can access HarpWeek through the Library's
home page.
MDConsult
EVMS resource
Description: MDConsult is a database produced by a joint venture of the
leading medical publishers that includes more than 50 full text reference works,
over 70 full text key medical journals, 6,500 patient education handouts, 600
peer-reviewed practice guidelines, and full text drug information.
Search: MDConsult supports basic and advanced searching. You may
search through all sections simultaneously for your topic or limit your search
to type of resource. Book and journals titles can also be searched
individually.
Scope: In addition medical textbooks and journals, MD Consult
reports on "Today in Medicine," "What patients are reading", and other sources
of current medical information, along with offering CME opportunities.
Use: Helpful resource for physicians and other healthcare professionals.
Currency:
Weekly
updates.
More: EVMS users can access MDConsult through the
Library's home page.
MEDLINE
(through OVID)
EVMS resource
Description: MEDLINE®, the National Library of Medicine's (NLM)
bibliographic database, is the primary source in the United States for
information from the biomedical literature, containing over 16 million
references to articles from more than 4,800 journals. MEDLINE® is the
computerized counterpart of Index Medicus, the Index to Dental Literature, and
the International Nursing Index.
Search: OVID
Tutorial
Scope: MEDLINE® covers basic biomedical research and the clinical
sciences since 1966. It also includes nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine,
pharmacy, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences. The full text of the article
is generally not provided, but over 75 percent of the records contain abstracts
written by the article's author. The database is international in scope.
Use: This version of MEDLINE® (see also PubMed and PubMed LinkOut below)
is produced by OVID and identifies which journals are held in the EVMS Library
collection. OVID MEDLINE provides full-text links to 140 journals.
Currency: Updated daily. Indexed citations to 1966. Un-indexed
citations from 1950-1966.
More: EVMS users can access MEDLINE through the
Library's home page.
MedlinePlus
(Consumer Health)
Free resource
Description: MedlinePlus provides information to help answer health
questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and
health-related organizations.
Search: Search
tips
Scope: Contains extensive information from the National Institutes
of Health and other trusted sources on over 700 diseases and conditions. There
are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical
dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription
and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to
thousands of clinical trials.
Currency: MedlinePlus is updated daily.
More: http://medlineplus.gov. Access
to MedlinePlus is free.
MLA International Bibliography
(through InfoTrac)
EVMS resource
Description: The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index
for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and
linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA).
More: EVMS
users can access MLA Int. Bib. through the
Library's home page.
OTSeeker
Free resource
Description:
OTSeeker contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomized controlled
trials relevant to occupational therapy.
Search: The database can be searched by keyword or field.
Scope: Occupational therapy practice.
Use: Use to answer questions about the effects of interventions or
treatments.
Validity: Trials have been critically appraised and rated to help
evaluate their validity and interpretability.
Currency: On-going updates.
More:
www.otseeker.com/ Access to OTSeeker is free.
Oxford English Dictionary
EVMS
resource
Description: The
Oxford English Dictionary is "the ultimate authority on the English language as
well as a history of English speech and thought from its infancy to the present
day". It is a unique source of scholarly information on the meaning, history and
pronunciation of words both past and present.
More: EVMS
users can access the OED through the Library's
home page.
Pedro: The
Physiotherapy Evidence Database Free
Description: PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give
rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomized controlled
trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in
physiotherapy.
Search: The
database can be searched by keyword or field.
Scope: Physiotherapy
Use: Use to answer questions about the effects of interventions or
treatments.
Validity: Most
trials on the database have been rated for quality to help you quickly
discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable and
those which are not.
Currency: Updated
monthly.
More: www.pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au/ Access
to PEDro is free.
PsychBITE
Free resource
Description:
PsychBITE™
(Psychological Database for Brain Impairment Treatment Efficacy) is a database
that catalogues studies of cognitive, behavioral and other treatments for
psychological problems and issues occurring as a consequence of acquired brain
impairment (ABI). The types of studies contained on this database are Systematic
Reviews, Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT), Non-Randomized Controlled Trials
(non-RCT), Case Series (CS), and Single Subject Design (SSD).
Search: The
database can be searched by keyword or field.
Scope: PsychBITE encompasses a range of disciplines including neurology,
nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychiatry, psychogeriatrics,
rehabilitation medicine, social work, and speech pathology obviously,
psychology.
Use: To enable clinicians and researchers to quickly identify, evaluate and
implement evidence-based interventions for psychological issues experienced by
people with acquired brain impairment.
Validity: Studies are rated for their methodological quality, evaluating
various aspects of scientific rigor.
Currency: On-going
updates.
More:
http://www.PsycBITE.com Access to
PsychBite is free.
PsycINFO
( OVID) EVMS
resource
Description: PsycINFO® is an electronic bibliographic database that provides
abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences
and mental health. It is the complete American Psychological Association
database.
Search: OVID
Tutorial
Scope: PsycINFO® contains citations and
summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as
well as citations to dissertations, in the field of psychology and the
psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry,
nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics,
anthropology, business, and law. It
includes international material selected from more than 2,000 periodicals
written in over 25 languages.
Currency: 1800s to the present. Over 100,000 references
are added annually through regular updates.
More: EVMS
users can access PsycINFO through the Library's
home page.
PubMed
Free Resource
Description: PubMed is the National
Library of Medicine's (NLM) free version of Medline. It includes the complete
Medline database. MEDLINE®, NLM's bibliographic database, is the primary source
in the United States for information from the biomedical literature, containing
over 16 million references to articles from more than 4,800 journals. MEDLINE®
is the computerized counterpart of Index Medicus, the Index to Dental
Literature, and the International Nursing Index.
Search: PubMed
tutorial
www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html
Scope: MEDLINE® covers basic biomedical research and the clinical
sciences since 1966. It also includes nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine,
pharmacy, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences. The full text of the article
is generally not provided, but over 75 percent of the records contain abstracts
written by the article's author. The database is international in scope.
Currency: Updated daily. Indexed citations to 1966. Un-indexed
citations from 1950-1966.
More: EVMS users can access PubMed through the
Library's home page
or directly at http://pubmed.gov.
PubMed LinkOut
provides links from Medline citations to EVMS
full-text journals.
FAQSee PubMed above.
PubMed: Clinical Queries
Free resource
(http://pubmed.gov) or (better) through
EVMS
library
for Link-out version of PubMed with links to select full-text.
Description:
PubMed
Clinical Queries offers a user-friendly filtered search approach to the Medline
database. Designed for busy practitioners, Clinical Queries is a specialized
interface that provides fast, reliable access to clinical studies that are more
likely to have strong research methods.
Search:
Clinical
Queries offers four clinical study categories to choose from: therapy,
diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis. Searches can also be limited by sensitivity (for broad
search results) or specificity (for precise search results). Systematic Reviews only.
Scope:
Covers evidence-based studies contained within the Medline database of 16 million
citations.
Use:
Best source
when searching for recent biomedical journal articles. (Foreground Questions)
Validity: Pre-set methodological filters enable the searcher to quickly
locate the relevant literature in the four clinical categories.
Applicability:
Clinical Query
includes search filters for therapy, diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis.
Currency:
Updates are
ongoing and occur daily.
More:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/clinical.html
Free resource.
Select WorldCat database
EVMS
resource
Description: WorldCat is a worldwide
union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member
institutions.
Search: Search through FirstSearch (above).
Scope: WorldCat-listed resources span thousands of years and nearly every
form of human expression. Records exist for everything from stone tablets to
electronic books, wax recordings to MP3s, DVDs and Web sites.
Use: Use to identify and locate resources by library/ institution.
Currency: Updates are on-going.
More: EVMS users can access WorldCat through
FirstSearch on the Library's home page.
STAT!Ref EVMS resource
Description: STAT!Ref is an electronic medical library that enables users to cross-search
more than 30 medical textbook resources including ACP Pier, ACP Medicine,
Harrison's, Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, Mosby's Drug Consult, and the
Griffith 5 Minute Clinical Consult.
Search: STAT!Ref
allows you to search either an individual book, selected books, or all books.
STAT!Ref permits the use of Boolean operators, AND OR NEAR or ADJ, as well as
allowing you to select how NEAR (how many words apart) words should be.
Online quick guide
Scope: Full-text medical and drug information for healthcare professionals
from medical textbooks.
Currency: STAT!Ref contains the latest electronic updates of included
textbooks and databases.
More: EVMS users can access STAT!Ref through the
Library's home page.
UpToDate
EVMS resource available in the Library's Computer
Classroom
Description:
UpToDate
is a clinical consulting tool covering the internal medicine
subspecialties, family medicine and pediatrics. Topic
reviews are based on clinical conditions. Topic cards may
contain aids such as graphs, photos, calculators, and links
to drug information and MEDLINE abstracts of cited articles.
Search: Browse
the table of contents or search using key words. Searches
can be narrowed by a topic list or by entering a second
search term after the first search is completed. No Boolean
searching. UpToDate also provides a tutorial on their
website.
Scope: Covers
internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, and
obstetrics; some are still in development. Strong in all
areas including clinical presentation, differential
diagnosis, and causation but the “strength of evidence”
is best presented for therapy. Some patient education
materials are available.
Use: Best
for questions relating to diagnosis and disease management. (Background
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