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.

Requires username and password obtained from your hospital library manager.

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MedlinePlus is a free web-based resource (sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, a unit of the National Institutes of Health) providing current, accurate, commercial-free and reliable health information to consumers and healthcare professionals. English and espanol

Health information in more than 40 languages and Tutorial: Understanding Medical Words

Easy-To-Read and Low Vision options in Health Topics

Prescription and over-the-counter medications, herbs and supplements from National Standard with levels of evidence.

Senior Health also features ways to enlarge text, enhance contrast and enable audio for selected text.

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This powerful database contains citations to clinical and research articles in medicine, nursing, allied health, dental and veterinary medicine with abstracts and links to full text when available.

Look for the filter information top right of your result page.When you select your hospital filter or free full text filter, you should be able to view, print, or save the full article.

When viewing individual articles, look for your hospital logo which indicates full text is available.

Over 5,000 journals indexed with many languages represented. Most of the articles can be obtained without charge through other libraries quickly. Contact your librarian or library manager.

1. Single Citation Matcher allows you to verify a reference easily
2. Clinical Queries helps find clinical studies and systematic reviews
3. Limits allow more focused results, ie. Core Clinical Journals, Nursing, Publication Type, or Topics: AIDS, Cancer, Complementary Medicine, Systematic Reviews
4. Loansome Doc allows you to request PubMed articles directly through your medical library's electronic ordering system - contact your library manager for details.

MyNCBI allows you to save searches, have updated searches sent regularly to your email, and more. Free registration required.

Your library has LINKOUT, so you can link directly to full text of online journals by clicking on the hospital library icons.

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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.

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To identify addional e-journal titles, use the search box where you can search by beginning words of the tile, words in the title, or browse subject categories for additional areas of interest.

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.

Ask your librarian for assistance in locating other titles. Any specific article can be delivered to you without charge through interlibrary loan/document delivery services.

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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.

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3rd ed. 2008 As in the previous second edition (titled Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice... American Journal of Nursing Geriatric Book of the Year in 2003), we present assessment and interventions for common geriatric syndromes. Geriatric syndromes are increasingly recognized as being related to preventable iatrogenic complications, or those that occur as a direct result of medical and nursing care, causing serious adverse outcomes in older patients (see chapter 11, Iatrogenesis). We are also very happy to present 13 new topics and several new expert contributors.Many of these topics have been updated from the protocols that appear on the Web site of The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU (http://www.consultgerirn.org/). The new topics in this edition are as follows:
· Dementia
· Nutrition in Aging
· Managing Oral Hydration in Older Adults
· Oral Health Care
· Age-Related Changes in Health
· Sensory Changes
· Iatrogenesis: The Nurse's Role in Preventing Patient Harm
· Family Caregiving for Older Adults
· Comprehensive Assessment and Management of the Critically Ill Older Adult
· Fluid Overload: Identifying and Managing Heart Failure Patients at Risk for Hospital Readmission
· Cancer and the Older Patient: Assessment and Intervention Strategies for the Acute-Care Nurse
· Issues Regarding Sexuality in Older Adults
· Substance Abuse

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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.

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The convenience of using acronyms and abbreviations can be outweighed by the danger in doing so. In some cases, ambiguity in interpretation can lead to situations in which patient safety may be compromised.

The abbreviations included in this edition have been compared with the Joint Commission JCAHO "Do not use" list, and those that occur on this list are so identified.

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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.

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MedlinePlus is a free web-based resource (sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, a unit of the National Institutes of Health) providing current, accurate, commercial-free and reliable health information to consumers and healthcare professionals. English and espanol

Health information in more than 40 languages and Tutorial: Understanding Medical Words

Easy-To-Read and Low Vision options in Health Topics

Prescription and over-the-counter medications, herbs and supplements from National Standard with levels of evidence.

Senior Health also features ways to enlarge text, enhance contrast and enable audio for selected text.

Updated daily
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More than 19,000 drugs are included. The search box in the middle of the page lets you search many resources simultaneously. A spellchecker is provided.

The portal covers drugs from the time they are entered into clinical trials (Clinicaltrials.gov) through their entry in the U.S. market place (Drugs@FDA). Many drugs in other countries are covered, but not as thoroughly as U.S. drugs. The PubMed link provides medical literature describing research, and TOXLINE provides toxicology literature. Resources such as MedlinePlus provide easy to read summaries of the uses and efficacy of a drug.

Search results include links to related drug information in MedlinePlus®, AIDSinfo®, Medline/PubMed®, LactMed, HSDB®, Dietary Supplements Labels Database, TOXLINE®, DailyMed®, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubChem, NIAID Anti-HIV/OI Database, ChemIDplus®, Drugs@FDA, DEA, and USA.gov .

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This online medical reference library allows you to access the complete text of the latest editions of more than 40 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 For a short Fash tutorial from the company, click on this linkhttp://http//www.statref.com/FlashDemos/STATRefTutorial.html

Requires username and password obtained from your hospital library manager.

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McMaster University's free, subscription service incorporates the McMaster PLUS email alerting system and searchable database of best evidence from the medical literature.
Users of Best Evidence for Nursing+ with interests in a specific clinical problem or treatment are invited to use the search engine to look up topics covered in the McMaster PLUS database published as far back as 2002.
Nurses who are in general practice or primary care, internal medicine or its subspecialties are invited to register their interests so that they can receive email alerts and searching access for literature that is matched to their personal clinical interests.
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This section will feature and news and information as well as safety and quality issues important to the nursing community.

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