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Your guide to finding electronic and print nursing and midwifery resources via UTAS libraries
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Australasian health databases

  • Meditext (Informit)  
      
    Best Australian health database. Covers all aspects of health and medicine, including allied health, with an emphasis on clinical medicine and allied health fields. Full-text 1995+ Index 196
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  • AUSPORTMed (Informit)  
      
    Medical and health issues in Australian sport. 1989+
  • APAIS -Health (Informit)  
      
    Covers health and medicine in Australia and in particular the legal, social, economic and ethical aspects of health. No clinical articles. 1978+
  • RURAL (Informit)  
      
    No full text. Covers rural and remote area health issues and care, and the practice and educational needs of health providers, in particular medical practitioners and nurses and is produced by the Monash University School of Rural Health. 1966+
  • Drug (Informit)  
      
    Covers the social, economic, political, psychological and legal aspects of prevention and treatment of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use and misuse with a strong emphasis on evidence-based practice.
  • Australian Health Policy Institute  
      
    The Australian Health Policy Institute was established by the College of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney in 1999. Non-partisan analysis of major health policy questions which confront Australian and international health systems.
 
 

Key databases

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  • CINAHL  
      
    Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
    Indexes journals, book chapters, conference papers and theses in nursing, health care, midwifery and related disciplines. Contains many full-text articles
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  • Medline via PubMed  
      
    Medicine, nursing, allied health, health services, life sciences - world wide.PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles to 1948
  • PubMed Search Help  
      
    This link is from PubMed itself. See also PubMed Tutorials.
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  • ProQuest Health and Medical Complete  
      
  • MD Consult  
      
    *****EBooks, journals, drug information,patient education,images*****
 

Evidence based medicine databases

  • Cochrane Library  
      
    The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Systematic reviews and other information that will assist in making diagnostic, treatment and other decisions.
  • Dynamed  
      
    Evidence based medicine reviews. About 3,000 topics: Diagnosis,prognosis,treatment,history,prevention, patient information. Updated daily.
  • UpToDate  
      
    ***On Campus access only. UpToDate provides access to original, evidence-based, peer reviewed medical information with a practical focus***
  • Clinical Evidence  
      
    BMJ journal containing up to date reviews. A decision-support resource. International peer reviewed journal publishing systematic reviews of important clinical conditions
  • Joanna Briggs Institute  
      
    Resources in evidence-based nursing and health care. Library access only to freely available resources (non-subscribed resources).
    School of Nursing and Midwifery can provide access to all restricted resources. Students should contact your lecturer.
  • TRIP (Turning research into practice)  
      
    Evidence-based medicine resource categorised into synopses; clinical questions; systematic reviews; guidelines; patient handouts and eBooks.
  • e-Medicine  
      
    ****Evidence-based open access resource written by specialist physicians and others with articles on 7,000 diseases/disorders. Regularly updated. 4 levels of peer review( articles not necessarily re-reviewed when updated)
 
 

Important databases in specialist areas

  • Sociological Abstracts  
      
    CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. 1952+
  • PsycInfo  
      
    International literature in psychology and related disciplines. Literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. 1806+
 
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