Selective Guide

Title   Description Full Text Consumer Level
AAFP Conditions A to Z STAT!Ref American Academy of Family Physicians information for consumers Y Y U
AHFS Drug Information STAT!Ref Comprehensive information for currently marketed drugs Y N A,P
AIDSearch - MEDLINE AIDS-HIV Subset, AIDSTRIALS, AIDSDRUGS N N A,P
Basic and Clinical Pharmacology STAT!Ref Focus on therapeutic action of drug types and groups rather than individual drugs Y N U,A
CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature - Authoritative index to nursing literature. Clinical focus, can "limit" to consumer health journals, public health and other topics P Y U,A,P
Cochrane Library - Evidence-based healthcare reviews - not published or indexed elsewhere Y N A,P
Davis' Drug Guide for Nurses STAT!Ref Drug information for nurses, arranged by generic name. Useful appendices include drug calculation, abbreviations, etc. Y Y U,P
Delmar's Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests STAT!Ref Clinical laboratory tests, their use and interpretation. Includes nursing care for specific tests, international information Y Y U,P
Detailed Drug Information for the consumer STAT!Ref Consumer information on current US drugs Y Y U
Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations STAT!Ref English language acronyms and abbreviations; medical, genetic and Greek symbols N Y U,A,P
Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Text STAT!Ref Pathophysiology for nurses. Includes DRGs, genetic considerations, gender and life span considerations Y Y U,P
DrugPoints System STAT!Ref Formerly USP DI Drug Information for the Health Professional. Drug monographs for the healthcare professional. Y N A,P
DSM-IV-TR STAT!Ref The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders from the American Psychiatric Association, 2000 text revision Y N U,A,P
Harrison's Online STAT!Ref Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine,16th edition, 2005 Y N A,P
Health Source - Consumer Edition - General health topics, consumer orientation P Y U,A
Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition - Professional literature in nursing and allied healt P Y U,A,P
Infectious Diseases: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention STAT!Ref Infectious disease chapters from WebMD Scientific American Medicine(R) Y N A,P
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts - Pharmacy-related journals from around the world. Includes clinical drug information and herbal products N N U,A,P
MediCalc STAT!Ref Medical reference and tool set of medical formulae, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools for evidence based medicine N N A,P
MEDLINE - All aspects of clinical medicine and biomedical research N N A,P
MEDLINEplus - National Library of Medicine's health and drug information website for consumers Y Y U,A,P
Merck Manual (Home edition) - Abridged web version of the print edition, consumer focus. Y Y U
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (17th ed.) - Primarily a textbook of internal medicine, but also includes pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, etc. Y N A,P
National Guidance Clearinghouse STAT!Ref Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines available at: www.guideline.gov Y N A,P
PsycINFO - Citations and abstracts to scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences - N U,A,P
PubMed - Freely available, foremost biomedical database in the world Y N A,P
Stedman's Medical Dictionary STAT!Ref Medical dictionary N N U,A,P
TOXNET - Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases. Y Y U,A,P
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