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Key Resources
	ACP's PIER©: Physicians Information and Education Resource w/ AHFS Dl Essentials PIER© is a collection of over 490 evidence summaries with an integrated drug reference. Each module provides authoritative guidance to improve the quality of care. more... Published by the American College of Physicians but also useful for non-physican healthcare providers Truly evidenced-based Defines the current standard of care Frequently updated (Monthly Content Updates and Module Additions) Consistently structured for rapid access Search or browse by organ system Integrated drug reference (AHFS DI Essentials) Topics are selected based upon prevalence in clinical settings. Evidence gathered by literature review and evaluated based on formal criteria. The level of evidence for each recommendation is displayed clearly. Includes topics in complementary and alternative medicine, ethical and legal issues and procedures. Contained in each module are criteria for treatment, rationale for each practice, and extensive reference lists which link to the article abstracts in PubMed. Additional information for patients and health care providers on diagnosis, treatment, consultation, follow-up and specific web links for further information. AHFS DI® Essentials™is designed to offer clinicians easy access to knowledge that is critical at the point of care. Essentials monographs draw on the meticulously evidence-based guidance from the full *AHFS DI®* database, distilling for the clinician the essential information on prescription and key over-the-counter (OTC) drugs in an easy-to-use, highly structured outline format. It provides a summary of critical information intended to provide quick, point-of-care answers to common prescribing and monitoring questions. Requires username and password obtained from your hospital library manager. Collapse this section top
	Health Reference Center Academic (NOVELNY) Includes full text articles from nursing, allied health, and patient and consumer health information sources. more... Health Reference Center Academic provides professional content for primary care providers, nurses, and other clinical staff as well as personal and consumer health information. Searches can be limited to refereed or peer reviewed journals, to full text, by date or by specific journal. Peer-reviewed journals in medicine, health, nursing and allied health and other health-related areas with backfiles to 1980 Videos of medical procedures and live surgeries from OR-Live More than 2,500 topical overviews from Clinical Reference Systems New York Online Virtual Electronic Library (NOVEL) funded resource. Collapse this section top
E-Journals
	A-to-Z E-Journals A locator and linking tool, provides lists of the full text journals available from various databases with links to the journals. Browse OR search. more... Journals can be identified through title searches or by subject categories but the journal content is not searchable through this resource. A great tool for finding what full text titles are available to you. Use PubMed for article content searching. Browse by selecting SUBJECT > HEALTH SCIENCES > then CHOOSE SPECIALTY or area of interest. You can also search for specific words in the title, exact title, begins with... After authenticating (using the "fulltext" "journals" ID and password), you will be able to link directly to full text content within different resources and view the latest articles or issues. Collapse this section top
	Your Books & Journals@Ovid Searchable databases with full text and graphic content of e-books and e-journals from Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins more... Ovid resources now include full text e-books as well as journals. Search together or separately. Your Journals @Ovid is a searchable database of full text journals published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins available to your hospital as part of a statewide shared subscription. The 100+ title collection (also seen as My Subscriptions) includes archives of back issues and pre-print contents including all charts and graphics with internal linking for cited references. The larger Journals@Ovid Full Text (All Ovid Journals) collection of 2,300+ titles allows you to access the tables of contents, abstracts and references for journals from many other publishers, as well as the same full text articles in the smaller (My Subscriptions) 100+ title collection of LWW content. If you need an article from the larger collection, contact your library manager. Requires username and password obtained from your hospital library manager. Collapse this section top
Hospital E-Journals
	Benedictine Hospital E-Journals Hospital licensed electronic journals more... Collapse this section top
E-Books
	Guide to Culturally Competent Healthcare NEW 2nd ed., 2009 more... Includes expanded section on characteristics of culture that determine the degree to which one identifies with his/her dominant cultural values, practices, and beliefs; and what it means to be culturally competent. includes (1) the assumptions upon which the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence is based; (2) the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence; (3) a description of the 12 domains of culture; and (4) 12 boxes, one for each domain of culture, with specific sample questions and observations for assessing a patient's cultural beliefs and practices. Chapters 2 through 29 describe cultural characteristics of major groups in the United States Collapse this section top
	Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine Daily updates; differential diagnosis tool, drug guide, grand rounds, laboratory values, patient education, practice guidelines more... Full text, fully searchable current edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine PLUS: Integrated Guide to Drugs: medication indications, dosages, contraindications, and drug classes, as well as patient handouts in English and Spanish. Lab values of clinical importance charts Diagnosaurus- differential diagnosis tool Grand Rounds, Hot Topics, medical news, book highlights, Emergency Medicine Photo Gallery, Customizable Patient Ed Notes: Each one describes a common medical problem, in language patients will appreciate, and typically includes clear, basic advice. Requires username and password obtained from your hospital library manager. Collapse this section top
	Orthopaedic Examination, Evaluation and Intervention more... 2nd ed.,2008. from the Introduction ..... "Until the beginning of the last century, knowledge about the mechanism of healing and the methods to decrease pain and suffering were extremely limited. Although we may scoff at many of the interventions used in the distant past, many of the interventions we use today, albeit less radical, have still to demonstrate much more in the way of effectiveness... ...intervention strategies that are based on the best available evidence will have a greater likelihood of success with the least associated risk.... ... In this book, great emphasis is placed on the appropriate use of manual techniques and therapeutic exercise...Electrotherapeutic and thermal/cryotherapeutic modalities should be viewed as adjuncts to the rehabilitative process. Collapse this section top
	Therapeutic Exercise: Foundations and Techniques (Kisner) more... 5th Ed. (2007) Thoroughly revised, up-to-date exercise guidelines for individualizing interventions for individuals with movement disorders. Authoritative source for exercise instruction for the therapist and for patient self management. Collapse this section top
Medication Information
	FDA Recalls, Market Withdrawls and Safety Alerts top
	Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine Choose Drugs tab or search by drug name. Printable color pill photos and patient info sheets English/Spanish more... Full text, fully searchable current edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, the gold standard in internal medicine, with additional features such as Grand Rounds, Hot Topics, medical news, book highlights and Clinical Pharmacology by Gold Standard Multimedia with patient education information in English and Spanish and pill photographs. Requires username and password obtained from your hospital library manager. Collapse this section top
	Medline Plus® Choose Drugs & Supplements more... Collapse this section top
	STAT!Ref Choose AHFS Drug Information or Review of Natural Products, Davis' Drug Guide for Nurses or all 3 more... This online medical reference library allows you to access the complete text of the latest editions of more than 30 standard clinical reference books, as well as Stedman's Dictionary, Clinical Calculators, and Practice Guidelines. You can search for information by topic across all texts, limit your search to an individual text, or limit your search to a category: nursing, emergency/critical care, etc... You can also browse the contents of the books chapter by chapter and print chapters, pages, or excerpts. Advanced Search option is best for controlling results Requires username and password obtained from your hospital library manager. Collapse this section top
Recommended Websites
	Respiratory Care Journal of the American Association for Respiratory Care and Clinical Practice Guidelines more... Current journal issues and archives back to 2003 *Evidence-based Guidelines* and *Expert Panel Guidelines* Collapse this section top
	CIRRIE (Rehabilitation Research) Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange: Database of International Research: more... Includes thousands of citations 1990 to present; multi-lingual encyclopedia; downloadable provider's guide to cultures ot the foreign-born including China, Cuba,Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Korea, Mexico, Phillipines, Vietnam Collapse this section top
	Lab Tests Online Laboratory test information for caregivers and patients-English, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Polish versions more... Lab Tests Online, a professionally produced site for caregivers and patients results from a unique collaboration among professional societies representing the clinical laboratory community. Organized by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), as part of its ongoing commitment to educating the public about lab testing.Search by: Tests, Conditions & Diseases, Screening Collapse this section top
	New York State Department of Health Current issues, Laws & Regulations, news, reports, statistics & data, vital records top
	Rehab+ (Rehabilitation PLUS) McMaster University's Rehab PLUS service for occupational and physical therapists more... Free Registration Required The current features include: Systematic review of over 150 journals (including quarterly updates of the Cochrane Library) with selection of articles by expert research staff according to explicit criteria, with high reproducibility and periodic quality assurance checks *Ratings* of each eligible article for clinical relevance and newsworthiness .... E-mail alerts about new evidence, tailored to the user's interest profile and adjustable for their time demands. Each alert includes MORE clinical ratings and comments, and electronic links to the article's abstract via PubMed.. *Cumulative searchable database* of the alerts (from mid-2007 forward) *User interface* allowing each user to register their health care interests, leading to matching of those interests to the appropriate "virtual" subset of the accumulating database Collapse this section top
	REHABDATA National Rehabilitation Information Center resource on disability and rehabilitation more... REHABDATA describes documents on physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, assistive technology, etc. Provides full text access to the Original Research for 1300+ government funded projects Collapse this section top

For remote access, such as from home or other places not on the hospital network, you will need to enter a username and password to identify you as an authorized user. Contact your library manager for this information.

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	A-to-Z E-Books
	A-to-Z E-Journals
	ACP's PIER
	Cochrane Library
	FirstSearch
	Gale Group
	Harrison's Online
	Health Reference Center Academic
	Medline Plus
	NEJM
	PubMed
	STAT!Ref
	Your Books & Journals@Ovid
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