Databases

New: HEAL-WA is a collection of health information resources funded by license fees from selected healthcare providers in Washington State. Key databases include CINAHL, PsycInfo and Social Work Abstracts.

Tips: You might want to try the New Search engine Mednar which searches PubMed, MedlinePlus and the Cochrane Library in a single search.

Medical Information Databases

Dynamed (Diseases and Conditions) MICROMEDEX (Drugs), Online Health Library, Up To Date

You might also want to look at: ACP Medicine (paper only)

Tip: Also consult General Medicine, Reference Sources, Medical Search Engines or Web Portals

Description of Popular Databases

Access to most databases are limited to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists. Access to databases within the Overlake Hospital is usually seamless, but those accessing databases remotely are often prompted for passwords. Email Us! or Phone:425-688-5137 to request a password list. Other databases are listed in the Databases by Subject Specialty.

Database Name	Database Description	Access and Tutorial
AMED	A bibliographic database of journal articles in allied health fields as well as those that practice alternatives to conventional medicine.	Available through HEAL-WA. Only select medical groups have access to this resource, but this group does include registered nurses, physicians, and social workers. The HEAL WA Fact Sheet outlines the other eligible groups. The HEAL site has a registration form to obtain a password. Tutorials: Ebscohost general tutorial
CINAHL	Full text access to over 600 journals in nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. All the full text journals within this collection can be found in our online catalog. Here is the list.	Available through HEAL-WA. Only select medical groups have access to this resource, but this group does include registered nurses, physicians, and social workers. The HEAL WA Fact Sheet outlines the other eligible groups. The HEAL site has a registration form to obtain a password. Tutorial on advanced searching (Ebsco)
Cochrane Library	The Cochrane Library is part of the Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR). The Cochrane Library is an online collection of databases that brings together in one place rigorous and up-to-date research on the effectiveness of healthcare treatments and interventions, as well as methodology and diagnostic tests.	Access to EBMR is provided by Ovid. Access to this database is limited to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists. Access to databases within the Overlake Hospital is usually seamless but ask the librarian for the password if you need access from your office. Tutorials: How to Use the Cochrane Library EBM Reviews - Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (CCTR) EBM Reviews - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH)
Dynamed	This provides over 3000 summaries of medical topics. It's use is primarily at the point of care and emphasis is on diseases and conditions.	Available through HEAL-WA. Only select medical groups have access to this resource, but this group does include registered nurses, physicians, and social workers. The HEAL WA Fact Sheet outlines the other eligible groups. The HEAL site has a registration form to obtain a password. Tutorial from Ebsco on Dynamed
Ebsco article finder	This is part of the Electronic Journal Service (Ebsco). it provides a quick search through the articles that we have within journals acquired through Ebsco. It is a small database, but all of the articles will be available in full text. You can search for an article by a keyword in the title or abstract, can search for an author or a citation.	Access to the full text articles within this database is limited to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists.
Ebscohost	HEAL-WA provides several databases hosted through the vendor Ebsco. They include Alt HealthWatch, AMED, CINAHL full text, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Methodology Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), The Health Technology Assessments (HTA), Medline (full text), and NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED).	Available through HEAL-WA. Only select medical groups have access to this resource, but this group does include registered nurses, physicians, and social workers. The HEAL WA Fact Sheet outlines the other eligible groups. The HEAL site has a registration form to obtain a password.
Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR)	EBMR is comprised of several different databases which provide systematic reviews of topics; article reviews; and access to definitive controlled trials. You can search the entire database, the full text only database, or the individual databases.	Access to EBMR is provided by Ovid. Access to this database is limited to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists. Access to databases within the Overlake Hospital is usually seamless but ask the librarian for the password if you need access from your office. Tutorials: EBM Reviews - Best Evidence (ACP) EBM Reviews - Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (CCTR) EBM Reviews - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH) EBM Reviews - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
HEAL-WA	HEAL-WA is a collection of health information resources and databases funded by license fees from selected healthcare providers in Washington State. Click here for a list of HEAL WA databases.	Only select medical groups have access to this resource, but this group does include registered nurses, physicians, and social workers. The HEAL WA Fact Sheet outlines the other eligible groups. The HEAL site has a registration form to obtain a password.
HealthSTAR	The HealthSTAR database provides access to the published literature of health services technology, administration, and research.	This database is available on Ovid. Access to this database is limited to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists. Access to this database within the Overlake Hospital is usually seamless but ask the librarian for the password if you need access from your office. A tutorial is available to help with self directed searching.
Lexi-Interact Online	This database covers the area of drug interactions. It also includes interactions with natural products.	This database is accessed through Up To Date. Access is restricted to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists. You must be within the Overlake Hospital to gain access. An Up-To-Date Tutorial is available here.
MDConsult	MD Consult provides access to leading medical books, over 50 full text journals, Yearbooks and Clinics of North America, drug information, online medical news, images and a wide variety of other resources. You can limit your search to a specific journal or clinics title, author, date, clinical focus, age and/or study group. Each of the journals within this collection can be accessed from our online catalog. Here is the list of journals and list of books from MDConsult.	Access to this database is limited to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists. Access to this database within the Overlake Hospital is usually seamless. To obtain a user ID and password you need to register (within the hospital network). This page allows you to log in or create a new account. Once registered you can use your login to access MDConsult anytime from your office. For a tutorial try How to use MDConsult or the QuickGuide.
Medline	This database is considered the world's most comprehensive source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information, with nearly eleven million records. HEAL-WA provides access to the full text version which has the full text of more than 1400 journals.All of these full text journals can be found in our catalog. Here is the list.	Medline is available through Ovid, MDConsult, Medscape (free registration required) , PubMed, and through HEAL-WA. Access through Ovid and MDConsult is restricted to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists. Access to these databases within the Overlake Hospital is usually seamless but ask the librarian for the password if you need access from your office. Tutorials for searching Medline are available for both PubMed and OVID. For information on searching by MESH headings see Branching Out: the MESH vocabulary.
MICROMEDEX	MICROMEDEX is a collection of different drug databases and includes information on side effects, dosages, interactions, and all FDA approved medications.	Access to this database is limited to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists. It can be accessed through the Overlake Hospital intranet or a networked computer located at the Overlake Hospital.
Mosby's Nursing Consult	This database provides access to a wide variety of nursing information. This includes drugs, patient education, journals, books, news, clinical practice, evidence-based content and care planning tools. Here is the list of journals and a list of books found in this database.	Access to this database is limited to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists. It can be accessed through the Overlake Hospital intranet or a networked computer located at the Overlake Hospital.
Mosby's Nursing Skills	This is an online skills and procedures reference system. The site features over 800 interactive skills from five reference texts. Skills are indexed alphabetically, as well as by specialty and category. Each skill features color illustrations, text, references and videos.	Access to this database is limited to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists. It can be accessed through the Overlake Hospital intranet or a networked computer located at the Overlake Hospital.
NLM Gateway	The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches a wide variety of databases outlined in their Overview.	Free access to anyone.
Nursing Reference Center	This database is a comprehensive reference tool designed to provide full text relevant clinical resources to nurses and other healthcare professionals, directly at the point-of-care. This contains a wealth of best practice guidelines, evidence based care sheets, nursing guides, point of care drug information, etc. A list of books can be found here.	Available through HEAL-WA. Only select medical groups have access to this resource, but this group does include registered nurses, physicians, and social workers. The HEAL WA Fact Sheet outlines the other eligible groups. The HEAL site has a registration form to obtain a password. Gale has produced a webcast tutorial.
Ovid	Ovid provides access to online books and full text journals in the broad area of health and medicine. Ovid also provides access to many databases. Our subscription to Ovid provides access to Medline <1950-pres>, Healthstar <1966-Current> and Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR). HEAL-WA's subscription provides access to PsycARTICLES, Mantis, PsycINFO, Social Work Abstracts and NASW Clinical Register.	Access is restricted to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists. Access to this database within the Overlake Hospital is usually seamless but ask the librarian for the password if you need access from your office. HEAL-WA also provides access to OVID. Only select medical groups have access to this resource, but this group does include registered nurses, physicians, and social workers. The HEAL WA Fact Sheet outlines the other eligible groups. The HEAL site has a registration form to obtain a password. Consult the OvidSP User Documentation web for assistance with searching OVID.
ProQuest Direct	ProQuest is a resource of electronic collections containing millions of articles originally published in magazines, newspapers, and journals. It covers a diversity of topics from a wide variety of disciplines. Consult the list of journals available.	Access is restricted to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists. Access to this database within the Overlake Hospital is usually seamless but ask the librarian for the password if you need access from your office. Try the tutorial on Basic Search or The Quick Reference Guide .
PubMed	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 back to the 1950s. Topics covered include nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the healthcare system, and the pre-clinical sciences. Many of the citations have abstracts. If our library has the item in paper copy or full text, an Overlake icon will appear. Click the icon to download the article. There is also specialized searches in categories such as etiology, diagnosis prognosis , etc. There are several PubMed Search interfaces you might like to try such as eTBlast, HubMed or Introtrieve.	Free access to anyone. PubMed Tutorial PubMed Searching Help
Science Direct	We only subscribe to some of the full text journals available through Science Direct. A list of journals we subscribe to are located here.	Access is restricted to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists. Access to this database within the Overlake Hospital is usually seamless but ask the librarian for the password if you need access from your office. Science Direct tutorial
Sciverse	Sciverse offers access to Science Direct, MDConsult and other web content.	Access is restricted to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists. Access to this database within the Overlake Hospital is usually seamless but ask the librarian for the password if you need access from your office.
Statref	This provides access to an online medical textbook collection. These are all found through our online catalog.	Access is restricted to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists. Access to this database within the Overlake Hospital is usually seamless but ask the librarian for the password if you need access from your office. Click Here for a STAT!Ref Tutorial.
Up To Date	Up-To-Date provides up to date medical information on over 7000 topics. It includes a drug database as well as links to Medline abstracts, illustrations and texts. Find the most important new medical findings since the last release.	Access is restricted to Overlake Hospital staff and registered hospitalists. You must be within the Overlake Hospital to gain access. An Up-To-Date Tutorial is available here.