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The subject guides bring together electronic resources, including specialized databases, by broad subject. For overall medical topics please also consult General Medicine and Reference Sources. Don't forget that the General Medical Databases contain articles on medical specialty topics.
Only a few high quality web resources are listed here. For other web resources use an Internet Search Engine.
Allergy and immunology
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Books
Print Books- Most books are filed in the QW and WD call number. E-books (keyword allergy, immunology) |
Allied Health Professionals see also Occupational Therapy, Pharmacology, Psychiatry and psychology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Radiology, Social Work
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Books E-books (Keyword allied health) |
Web Resources Speechbite - This is an open access catalog of best interventions and treatments in the area of speech pathology. |
Databases
CINAHL--(description and access) Index to Chiropractic literature - (description and access) Massage therapy research database -- (description and access). MANTIS (Manual Alternative and Natural Therapy Index) -- (description and access) |
Anatomy & Physiology see also Medical Images.
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Books
Print Books - Most print books are filed in the QM, QS and QT (Physiology) call number. E-books (keyword anatomy, human body, physiology)
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Web Resources
Anatomy atlases -- this site provides access to 6 anatomy textbooks and atlases. Human anatomy online (Intellimed International Corporation) -- Searchable and clickable body map. Virtual body tour (Medtropolis)--This is a virtual guide through the major organs of the human body helped by graphics (available in English or Spanish.) Visible human project (National Library of Medicine)--Provides a wealth of links to anatomical images and anatomical 3D teaching tools on the web. |
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Books
Print Books - Most books are filed in the WO call number E-Books (keyword anesthesia)
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Web Resources
Gasnet-- This portal provides access to journal abstracts, internet sites, online textbooks and video clips about anesthesiology. |
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Print Books - Most print books are filed in call
numbers QU, QZ and WB.
E-books (keyword biochemistry, nutrition, diet) |
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Databases
ProQuest (description and access)
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Web Resources Nursing Calculators - provides a list of nursing calculators.
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Print Books - most books are filed in the WG call
number
E-Books (keyword cardiac, cardiology, heart, vascular)
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Web Resources
Heart and vascular videos (Cleveland Clinic) -- A series of video discussions on heart and vascular problems and surgery. Many of these were made for patients |
Database
CathPCI registry (description and access) ICD registry (about), Search (restricted access)--(description and access) STS national database (about), Search (restricted access) (description and access) |
Comparative Effectiveness Research
NLM
Resources for informing comparative effectiveness Research (2010)
PubMed - (description
and access)Use the MESH heading "Comparative Effectiveness
Research". PubMed has made a special
Query
Comparative
Effectiveness Research (CER) database (description
and access)
E-books (keyword) Comparative
effectiveness Research
Web Resources
Database
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Print Books - Most books are filed in the WB call
number
E-Books (keyword Alternative medicine, Complementary, Herbal, Natural Medicine)
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Web Resources
About herbs, botanicals, and other products - This information resource provides evidence-based information about herbs, botanicals, supplements, and more, in the treatment of cancer. It provides clinical summaries, pharmacokinetics, adverse reactions, interactions and references. International bibliographic information on dietary supplements (IBIDS)-- A database of published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals.
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Database
AltHealthwatch -- (description and access)AMED allied and alternative medicine --(description and access) --(description and access)CINAHL--(description and access) Complementary and alternative medicine index --(description and access)Dietary Supplement Labels Database --(description and access)MANTIS (Manual Alternative and Natural Therapy Index) -- (description and access)Natural standard --(description and access)Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database - (description and access)
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Consumer Health see also Reference (Encyclopedias).
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Books
E-books (keyword) Consumer Health |
Web Resources
Familydoctor.org - This site by the American Academy of Family Physicians provides patient guides, and has information on conditions A-Z. Healthfinder.gov - This US Department of Health website is consumer oriented providing information on finding doctors, health centers and covers over 1600 health topics. Within this site is Health Topics A-Z (National Institutes of Health) which provides links to quality sites for a variety of diseases and conditions. Health On the Net Foundation (HON) - provides useful and reliable health information on a variety of medical and health topics. MayoClinic.com - This provides topical overviews written by health experts in the field. There is a disease and symptom search as well. Medicinenet -- This is aimed at consumers, and contains a large number of useful features for clinicians such as diseases and conditions, tests, and an online medical dictionary, etc. MedlinePlus - Provides health information for patients Medscape Reference (Drugs, diseases & Procedures, formerly eMedicine) -- This resource comprises the largest and most current Clinical Knowledge Base available to physicians and other healthcare professionals containing articles on 7,000 diseases and disorders with evidence-based content, updated regularly, providing the latest practice guidelines in 59 medical specialties. MerckEngage.com - This site contains great reference materials such as the condition library. Medline Plus - This site provided by the National Library of Medicine, provides access to the ADAM medical encyclopedia, a medical dictionary, directories, drug topics, videos, and other medical and health topics Noahhealth.org - The New York Online Access to health provides a wealth of information on heath topics. Some are written in Spanish. Virtual Hospital- This continuously updated digital health sciences library provides patient care support and distance learning to practicing physicians and other healthcare professionals. Some sections provide information to patients. Text is indexed and made free-text searchable. Video-clips are included. Scope is international, though some sections are specific for Iowa. WebMD -- Search for health conditions, health topics, drugs and supplement information. |
Database
Access Medicine (description and access) Dynamed --(description and access) Health and Wellness Center - (description and access) Krames on Demand - (description and access) MICROMEDEX (description and access) Online Health Library - (description and access) Patient education reference center -- (description and access) MDConsult (description and access) Patient information from Up-to-date (description and access) ProQuest (description and access) ProQuest Family Health - (description and access)
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Continuing Education/Recertification see also ACOG readings. Many journals also carry continuing education series. This includes AAP, APA, JAMA, the AMA Archives of...series, BMJ, NEJM, Lancet and others.
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Web Resources
General sites, Medical Conferences, Medical presentations, Nursing CME General sites (cover many health disciplines) CMEList.com -- Here you'll find more than 250 Online CME sites offering more than 11,000 courses and more than 20,000 hours of CME credit! The site is arranged topically or alphabetically by the institution offering the course. CME Web - Touted as one of the web's largest sources of instant online CME. You can browse or search by topic or clinical specialty. Pre-registration is required to access some portions of the site and courses are not free. Free cme - A no-cost online CME destination featuring numerous specialties. You can search by topic, clinical specialty or credit. Medscape CME -- Medscape has a section on continuing Education activities. North American Center for Continuing Medical Education (NACCME) -- An accredited medical education provider, committed to continuing education in health professions, they provide an educational forum to examine health care issues, technologies, and therapies designed for the advancement of science and medicine. Search for CME course by specialty, credit type or keyword Medical conferences
HON
meeting - provides a database of world-wide meetings.
Mededportal
- This is a repository for medical and oral health teaching
materials, assessment tools, and faculty development resources Nursing CME's Meniscus
Educational Institute -- Unless otherwise noted, these CME
programs are available at no charge to nurses, thanks to unrestricted
educational grants from various sponsoring sources Online
CEUs: a directory for nurses-- Free Directory of Online
Continuing Education for Nurses and other Healthcare professionals.
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Database
MDConsult (description and access) Nursing Reference Center - This offers a Continuing education module (available through HEAL-WA) (description and access) - Registered Nurses can obtain Continuing Nursing Education, accredited by ANCC and IACET, at no charge through Nursing Reference Center’s Continuing Education modules. Select the Continuing Education tab. |
Dermatology see also Medical Images.
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Print Books - Most books are filed in the WR call
number.
E-Books (Keyword dermatology)
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Web Resources
DermIS (Dermatology Information System) --DermIS.net is the largest dermatology information service available on the internet. It offers an elaborate image atlases complete with diagnoses, case reports and information on skin diseases Dermatlas (Bernard Cohen) (Dermatology image atlas) --This contains more than 12,000 dermatology images as well as a portal of dermatology links to databases, and other dermatological websites. Dermnet --Dermnet is a web site that contains over 23,000 images of skin disease.
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E-books (keyword health
costs)
Web Resources HCUPnet (Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project)--Produced by the US Department of Health and Human Services this website provides an online query system to health statistics and information on hospital inpatient and emergency department utilization.
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Database
NHS Economic Evaluation Database (also known as NHSEED Evidence based medicine reviews) (description and access) DARE (description and access) ProQuest (description and access)
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The Library also subscribes to Emergency Medicine (Audiodigest )
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Print Books
- Most print books are filed in the WB call
number.
E-books (keyword emergency, emergencies)
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Database
In addition to a popular Journal database use: Emergency Medical Abstracts (filed on the Journal shelf) |
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Print Books - Most print books are filed in
the WK call
number.
E-books (keyword endocrine, endocrinology, diabetes, thyroid ) |
Web Resources National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC) -- Provides statistics and an A-Z list of topics, discusses treatments, provides statistics and guidelines, as well as other links related to diabetes. National Institute of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Information Service (NIDDK) -- Provides statistics and an A-Z list of topics as well as links to other research sites. |
Epidemiology -
For general disease see General
Medicine
Print Books - Most print books are filed in the WC and
WX call numbers
E-books
(keyword disease
control, epidemiology,
infection,
influenza,
virus) Web Resources
Centers
for
Disease
Control and
Prevention
(CDC)-- This has an excellent
section on diseases and conditions. It
includes CDC
Wonder which accesses a variety of Center
for Disease Control reports, guidelines, and numeric public health
data.
WWW
virtual library of epidemiology -- This site links to many
research centers, and important websites for epidemiology GIDEON
(description
and access)
Incidence and
prevalence database --(description
and access)
Print Books
- Most print books are filed in the W50
call number.
Web Resources
Bioethics
resources on the web.
-- This website contains a broad array of annotated
links to
those with an interest in bioethics including education, research
involving human participants and animals, medical and health care
ethics, and the implications of applied genetics and biotechnology.
The listed resources provide background information and various
positions on issues in bioethics.
PubMed (description
and access)-- Click on Limits, select subsets,
Topics=Bioethics. Ethxweb (description
and access)
Evidence Based Medicine
E-books
(keyword evidence based,
quality)
General web portals
| Guidelines
(Standards)
| Quality
Evidence based
web portals (general)
Bandolier
- Bandlolier is a magazine reporting on evidence based medicine.
Their website's Knowledge Library, Bandolier
collects and indexes systematic reviews of treatments, and
evidence about diagnosis, epidemiology or health economics. Centre
for Evidence-based Medicine --This UK site has several
portals of interest including a library, and compilations of
power-point presentations and other teaching and learning
tools. Evidence
based practice tutorial (University of Minnesota Libraries)
--This tutorial is
designed for students in healthcare fields, medical professionals,
faculty, and anyone else interested in evidence-based practice. It
looks at the 5 step process and how to apply it. Evidence based medicine resource
center (New York Academy of Medicine)--In the "Teaching & Learning" and "Other Resources" section, this portal contains references, bibliographies,
tutorials, glossaries, and on-line databases to guide those embarking
on teaching and practicing evidence-based medicine. Evidence in
Health and Social Care (National Institute for Health and
Clinical Excellence) -- This provides access to information on quality care, and includes
QIPP a collection of material on improving productivity.
Health-evidence.ca
- This indexes publish review articles that evaluate the
effectiveness of public health or health promotion interventions
since 1985. It has a strong Canadian emphasis.
NHS
Evidence - NHS Evidence is a service that enables access to
authoritative clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practice
through a web-based portal. It helps people from across the NHS,
public health and social care sectors to make better decisions as a
result. NHS Evidence is managed by the National Institute for Health
and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
National
Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE)-- British evidence based
guidance on technology use, clinical care, and interventional
procedures. Guidelines (Standards)
Here are just listed portals of guidelines.
CMA
infobase -- Indexes Canadian clinical practice guidelines
Current
Practice Guidelines in in Primary Care --This
database has restricted access through
HEAL-WA.
Fill in the registration
form to obtain a password. You must access HEAL-WA yourself
to access or download these resources
Guidelines
International Network
National Guideline
Clearinghouse --A U.S. resource for evidence-based clinical
practice guidelines compiled by the US Department of Health and
Human Services.. A display tool allows side by side comparison
of guidelines.
Agency for healthcare research and
Quality (AHRQ) -- This site provides a wealth of information on
health quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health
care. They have developed a database of guidelines.
AHA
Quality Center-- The AHA Quality Center helps hospitals accelerate their quality
and performance improvement processes. It features tools, articles
and other resources to support hospitals to achieve better patient
outcomes, enhanced safety, increased satisfaction and improved
operational and financial performance.
Heathgrades.com -- A
source for healthcare ratings information on hospitals, health plans
and physicians
Hospital
compare -compares and ranks hospitals
Hospital quality
measures (Washington State Hospital Association) --Ranks
hospitals in Washington on several variables
IHI.org (Institute for
healthcare improvement)--The American Hospital Association provides
tools and resources that hospitals can use to measure quality of
care, continually improve patient safety and quality, and create a
culture of safety that supports candid analysis of errors and error
prevention
Leapfrog Hospital
Surveys -- Ranks hospitals according to a survey on patient safety and
procedure safety.
National Committee for Quality
Assurance -- This site reports on the quality of the nation's
managed care plans. Quality
check (Joint Commission) Hospital quality
(Washington State Hospital Association)
Evidence based Medicine
| Guidelines (Standards) | Quality
CRD
database (description
and access)
Cochrane
Library
--(description
and access)
Dynamed --(description
and access)
EvidenceUpdates (description
and access)
HealthSTAR
(description
and access)
MDConsult (description
and access)
OVID (description
and access)-- You can limit a search to Practice
Guidelines to find evidence based standards.
Prospero -- (description
and access)
PubMed
(description
and access) You can limit a search using
PubMed
to Practice
Guidelines to find evidence based standards. You can also
choose to search "Clinical queries". The
results screen is displayed in 3 sections. One of these
displays Systematic Review literature. You can also just
search Pubmed and choose "Systematic Reviews" from the
limits subset screen. PubMed
Health -
(description
and access)
TRIP
(Turning Research into Practice) --
(description
and access)
ACP Pier and AHFS DI essentials -
(description
and access)
HSTAT
(description
and access)
Health
Services Research (HSR) This is a special PubMed search
restricted to articles on healthcare quality and costs.
PubMed
(description
and access) -
You can restrict your search to Quality.
Books
Database
Books
Database
Web Resources
Database --See also Clinical Trials (Pharmacology)
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Print Books
- Most print books are filed in the WI call
number.
E-books (Keywords gastrointestinal, colon, colorectal, bowel, liver ) |
General Medicine see also Epidemiology, Consumer health, General medical reference books
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Books
Print Books - Critical Care (WX218 call number), Health care and medical practice- general (W call number, WA call number) Internal Medicine and medical diagnosis (WB call number) |
Web Resources Cleveland Clinic Disease Management Project -- A comprehensive source for treatment guidelines for common diseases and conditions. Citations within the chapters are hyperlinked to a list of references at the bottom of each chapter with many linked to the Medline abstracts wherever possible. General practice notebook - Created by four physicians in the UK, this encyclopedia provides a concise synopsis of the entire field of clinical medicine with material organized systematically MayoClinic.com --This provides topical overviews written by health experts in the field. There is a disease and symptom search as well. Medscape Reference (Drugs, diseases & Procedures, formerly eMedicine) -- This resource comprises the largest and most current Clinical Knowledge Base available to physicians and other healthcare professionals containing articles on 7,000 diseases and disorders with evidence-based content, updated regularly, providing the latest practice guidelines in 59 medical specialties. |
Databases Disease
focus
| General
CHE toxicant and disease database -- (description and access) Diagnosaurus - (description and access) Diseases Database (description and access) DynaMed --(description and access) ICD Search This provides the International Classification of Diseases (version 10) Orphanet - a database of information on rare diseases. MDConsult (description and access) MEDLINE - (description and access) NLM Gateway--(description and access) OVID (description and access) PubMed (description and access) Science Direct (description and access) STAT!Ref (description and access) UpToDate (description and access)
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National
Center for Biotechnology Information (description
and access)
Madame
Curie bioscience database -- Searches chapters from over 100 books
published by Landes Bioscience
E-books
(keyword genetic,
genomics)
Database
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Books
Print Books - Most print books are filed in the WT call number. E-books (keyword geriatrics, gerontology) |
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Print
Books - Most print books are filed in the WH call
number.
E-books (keyword blood, hematology)
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Web Resources
Image bank (American Society of Hematology) |
Hospitals
see
also Quality Resources.
Print
Books - Most print books are filed in the WX call
number.
E-books (keyword hospitals)
Statistics
| Directories |Ranking see Evidence
Based Medicine -Quality |Accreditation
|Legal
HCUPnet (Healthcare cost and utilization
project)--HCUPnet provides access to health statistics and
information on hospital inpatient and emergency department utilization. It
includes access to to the "Most common diagnosis and Procedures in U.S.
Community hospitals" American Hospital Association AHA
guide to the health care field WX22 AA1 A53 Hospital Directory Search
(American Hospital Association) -- The U.S. News/American Hospital
Association Directory provides key information on over 5,000 "best ranked"
hospitals nationwide. AHD.com -The American Hospital Directory provides
online data for over 6,000 hospitals. Some financial and statistical information
is included. American Hospital Association AHA
guide to the health care field WX22 AA1 A53 Joint Commission on Accreditation
- Provides insight into how it evaluates and accredits more than
19,500 health care organizations in the United States. The "library
section" offers downloadable white papers, newsletters, etc.
Joint Commission
E-dition (On Overlake Intranet) - this is the Joint commission
Comprehensive Accreditation Manual.
Hospital
licenses and regulations (WA)
Web Resources
Legal and legislative see also Ethics
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E-books (keywords legal)
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Web Resources
- General
Guide to health law - This section focuses on health care law and regulations. It is very international in scope. Web Resources - Washington State Revised Code of Washington (RCW) Washington Administrative Code Washington State Legislature - search by RCW, bills Web Resources - Federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Medicare and Medicaid Regulations, Legislation GPO Access Full text access to the CFR (back to 1996), Federal Register (back to 1994), Congressional Record (back to 1994) and other government documents from the Government Printing Office. Openjurist.org Open Jurist is a resource for access to the case law of the United States. The collection includes opinions from the United States Supreme Court - beginning in 1754 when it was known as the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; and the Federal Appellate Courts - beginning in 1880. It currently contains a total of approximately 647,000 opinions. THOMAS Primary online source for federal legislative material. Contains new public laws, pending bills, status of bills, committee reports and hearings. Full text of legislation available from 1989 (101st Congress) to present. Depth of other material varies -- some items, including public laws, are earlier in scope. Very current. |
Databases Public Library of Law --(description and access) |
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Print
Books - most print books are filed in QW call
number
E-books (Keyword bacteriology, microbiology)
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Database
Madame Curie bioscience database -- Searches chapters from over 100 books published by Landes Bioscience |
Medical
Tests see
also
Pathology,
Pharmacology
often contains information on lab values, and lab tests.
E-books (laboratory
tests) Web Resources
Please be aware of copyright laws when using images.
AnatQuest
- these are a series of anatomic images online provided by the
National Library of Medicine.
Hardin
MD
-- This contains a large image library and also acts like an encyclopedia
organizing resources by topic. It covers all body systems.
Wellcome
Images -- The Biomedical Collection holds over 40 000 high-quality
images from the clinical and biomedical sciences. Selected from the UK's
leading teaching hospitals and research institutions, it covers disease,
surgery, general healthcare, sciences from genetics to neuroscience
including the full range of imaging techniques.
MedPix
Medical Image Database -- An integrated database of textual
information and images, intended for health practitioners and students.
Material is organized by disease category, disease location (organ
system), and by patient profiles. The site also includes a collection of
radiology cases, and features a Case of the Week.
HON
Media Repository--Search a repository of over 6,800 images
Images MD--You can search through the thumb nails of these images.
Unfortunately the full sized image is restricted to subscribers, but the
source of each image is given. The library has many of these sources in
its collection.
Public
Health Image Library (PHIL) -- this is a collection of
photographs, illustrations and multimedia files compiled by the CDC.
Other large image
libraries and search engines
Yottalook
- Yottalook is a medical image search engine.
VisualDx
- (description
and access)
Trip
Database
(description
and access)
Medical
Records and Coding
Web
Resources
CPT
(Current Procedural Terminology) - Published by the American
Medical Association and updated annually, Current Procedural
Terminology (CPT) is a collection of numeric codes. It is the
most widely accepted medical nomenclature used for reporting
and billing medical services and procedures, furnished by
physicians and other health care professionals, under both
public and private health insurance programs.
DSM-V
(used in psychiatry)
Healthcare
common procedure coding system (Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS) - Each year, in the United States,
health care insurers process over 5 billion claims for
payment. For Medicare standardized coding systems are
essential. The HCPCS Level II Code Set is one of the standard
code sets used for this purpose
Multicultural Health Resources
Web
Resources
Spiral
- Selected patient resources in Asian languages
Ethnomed
- EthnoMed contains information about cultural beliefs,
medical issues and related topics pertinent to the health care
of immigrants
Print Books - filled in the WZ
call
number.
Ebooks (History
of Medicine)
Web
Resources
Medhist
- MedHist is a free catalogue of evaluated, high quality
Internet resources and websites relating to the history of
medicine and allied sciences, covering all aspects of the
history of health and development of medical knowledge Jeghers
Medical Index - The Jeghers Medical Index is a glimpse of
early to mid twentieth century medicine as seen through the
literature collected by Harold
J. Jeghers, M.D., a noted twentieth century American
physician
IndexCat (description
and access)
Print
Books - Most print books are filed in the WJ call
number. E-books (Kidney,
nephrology,
prostate,
prostatic,
urology)
National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse --This
site provides statistics, clinical trials, as well as links to other sites
on kidney disease.
Nephron
Information Center -- Comprehensive web portal covering general
nephrology subjects from pathology to transplantation.
Neurology
(Nervous System) Print
Books - Print books are filed in the WL call
number. E-books (headache,
nervous,
neurologic,
neurology,
neurosurgery,
Parkinson's
disease)
American Academy of
Neurology - This site contains resources for professionals, residents and
the general public. The Practice tab provides a number of practice guidelines to
help make decisions related to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.
Disorder
index -- Search the Disorder Index
maintained by the national Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
It defines neurological disorders,
provides summary of treatment and key organizations involved in their research.
Nursing
see
also Continuing
Education
Print
Books
- Most are filed in the WY call number. Web Resources
Joanna
Briggs Institute --
The Joanna Briggs Institute is an International not-for-profit
Research and Development Organization specializing in Evidence-Based
resources for healthcare professionals in nursing, midwifery,
medicine, and allied health. This contains a wide variety of links to
material on best practices and other material. Some of the content is
limited to authorized users.
CINAHL--(description
and access)
HealthSTAR
(description
and access) Mosby's
Nursing Consult
(description
and access)
Mosby's
Nursing Skills
(description
and access)
Nursing
Reference Center
Virginia
Henderson International Nursing Library (VHINL) --(description
and access)
Print
Books -
Most are filled in the WP and WQ call
numbers. E-books
(gynecology,
obstetric)
Databases
Drugs
and Lactation Database (description
and access)
Developmental and Reproductive
Toxicology Database (DART) (description
and access)
Oncology Overlake hospital also maintains a Cancer
Resource Center which has books and other materials that patients can use.
Print
Books - Print books are filed in the QZ call number. E-books
(keyword oncology,
cancer)
About herbs, botanicals,
and other products --This information resource provides
evidence-based information about herbs, botanicals, supplements, and
more, in the treatment of cancer.
Oncolink
- Through OncoLink you can get comprehensive information about specific
types of cancer, updates on cancer treatments and news about research
advances. Cancer.gov
- This website profiles the National Cancer Institute and identifies over 200
types of cancer, discusses treatment, prevention, causes, trial, literature
and statistics. Web Resources - Cancer Statistics State
cancer profiles - provides statistics for cancers in US states. Cancer
Statistics - from the National Cancer Institute, includes access
to SEER
Fast Stats. North American Center Central
Cancer Registries (NAACCR)
Cancerlit
--
(description
and access)
PDQ
(Physician Data Query) - a database produced by the National
Cancer Institute.
AMED
allied and alternative medicine --(description
and access)
OT seeker --(description
and access)
Print Books - Most print books are filed in the WW call
number.
E-books
(keyword eye,
ophthalmology)
Eye
resources on the Internet -- A comprehensive list of key internet
resources about the eye
E-books
(keyword bone,
orthopaedics,
orthopedics)
see
also
Videos These resources
cover general images.. See Anatomy,
Dermatology,
Epidemiology,
Hematology (for blood images) and
Pathology (for microscopic
images)
E-books
(keyword images)
Web Resources -
Medical Images
Databases
Books
Books
Books
Databases
Nephrology and Urology
Books
Web Resources
Books
Web Resources
Books
Databases
see
also ACOG
readings
Books
Books
Web Resources - General, Statistics
Databases
Databases
Books
Web Resources
Print Books
- Most print books are filed in the WE call
number
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Books
Print Books - Most print books are filed in the WV call number E-books (keyword otolaryngology, neck)
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Books
Print Books - Most print books are filed in the QZ call number E-books (keyword pathology)
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Web Resources
Clinical Test catalog University of Michigan. Department of Pathology - This provides a link to the Handbook of Clinical tests, as well as listing critical values of key tests. Visual Slidebox - Provides slides in histology, pathology and histopathology |
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Books
Print Books - Most print books are filed in WS call number E-Books (keyword pediatrics)
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Pharmacology see also
Complementary
therapies, Toxicology.
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Print Books
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Most print books are filed in the QV call number E-books (keyword pharmacy, pharmacological, pharmacology, drug, drugs)
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Web Resources General |Drug Search | Pharmacopias | Chemical compounds | New Drugs | Substance Abuse | Guidelines/Standards | Finding or Reference Guides Global RPH.com: The clinician's ultimate reference -- This source includes tools like: Drug Tables, IV Dilution Info., Lab Values, Medical Calculators, Renal Dosing and more. Martindale's Health Science Guide: This site offers a virtual pharmacy center with links to everything you need to know about pharmacology, clinical pharmacology, and toxicology , as well as links to Drug, Herbal and Vitamin databases.Virtual library:Pharmacy (D. Bourne) -- Provides a portal of information on pharmaceuticals including associations, pharmaceutical companies, databases, news groups. Drug information Portal - Provides a gateway to selected drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies. More than 12,000 drugs can be searched using name or category. DrugBank - This DrugBank database describes each drug but the emphasis is on the biochemical structure as well as pharmacological and pharmaceutical data. It provides dosage and pricing information. Electronic medicines compendium - This site provides information about prescriptions and over the counter medications licensed in the UK. Information includes therapeutics, interactions, side effects, pharm acological properties, safety. For any given drug it gives the dosage and manufacturer and provides a patient handout.Finding Drugs by Indication - This site provides a guide that lists resources that give reasons why medications are used. Intelihealth (John Hopkins Drug Resource Center) - click on Drug Search. This provides a searchable directory of generic and brand name drugs. Medscape Pharmacists - This site contains a drug lookup and also an "adverse drug events" section.. The drug search combines content from FDA, First Databank and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Pharmacope diaMedline plus: drugs, supplements and herbal information - search for prescription drugs, over the counter medicine, dietary supplements and herbal remedies. It includes side effects, dosage and special precautions. PDR.net - Search for drug information and drug alerts found in the Physicians' desk reference. The print version is also held by the library. Pillbox - allows you to identify an unknown pill. RXlist -Searchable by brand, generic name, imprint code identification or NDC code. It includes drug descriptions, clinical pharmacology, side effects and warnings. RXmed - This provides information on over 3000 drug medications including herbal and dietary supplements. These listings cover general pharmacology, indications, warnings, dosage and adverse effects information for each pharmaceutical monograph. Search Medica This search engine provides information on indications, contraindications, dosage, pharmacology and adverse effects of a wide variety of drug formulations. Pharmacopias, drug directories or drug encyclopedias Epocrates - a database of drug and formulary information of U.S. FDA International pharmacopoeia (WHO) -provides information on dosage and composition of drugs. Pharmacopeia online (US) - Searches the US pharmacopoeia (30, 31 and 32) and some of the European pharmacopoeia.Pharmacopoeia Online (SinoAPI) - these provide searches to the British Pharmacopoeia, European Pharmacopoeia (EP), Japanese pharmacopoeia, and US Pharmacopoeia (30) Pharmabase - this lists the use and targets of pharmaceutical compounds. It is molecular level base and looks at the reactions at the cellular level. drugs New Medicines in Development Database PHRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America) -- Contains information on pharmaceutical products in the research and testing phase and it can be searched by either the disease, indication or drug. -- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has created this portal to support researchers and practitioners searching for information related to alcohol research. This page includes links to a number of databases, journals, and Web sites focused on alcohol research and related topics. instruments database--This database, developed by the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute (University of Washington) is intended to help clinicians and researchers find instruments used for screening and assessment of substance use and substance use disorders.Drug Information Databases This is a listing of free databases on the internet that act as a directory of prescribing information for thousands of drugs. The side bar provides links to specialized types of databases such as AIDS drugs, etc. Finding Drugs by Indication - This site provides a guide that lists resources that give reasons why medications are used. PharmGuide - The Medical Library Association Pharmacy and Drug information Section have put this guide together to help identify the best free resources to answer the most common drug information questions. It provides links to pharmacy home pages of other libraries or universities that provide guidance on Pharmacy resources. Pharmacy Reference Guides - this is a list of pharmacy guides compiled by the McWhorter School of Pharmacy at Samford University. It includes sections on adverse drug reactions, contraindications, drug interactions, compounding, etc. |
Databases
General |Clinical Trials |Drug interactions/adverse effects |Pharmaceutical preparations ACP Pier and AHFS DI essentials (description and access) Dynamed (HEAL-WA) Clinical Alerts (National Library of Medicine) - provides information on NIH-funded clinical trails Cochrane Library - (description and access) International Clinical Trial Registry Portal (WHO)-- The Clinical Trials Search Portal provides access to a central database containing the trial registration data ClinicalTrials - a registry of federal and privately funded clinical trials conducted worldwide. Drug interactions/adverse effects (see also Toxicology) Drugs Interactions Checker The Drug Interaction Checker explains the mechanism of drug interactions, the level of significance of the interaction (major, moderate or minor), and in certain cases, can provide the recommended course of action to manage the interaction. The Drug Interaction Checker will also display any interactions between drug(s) and food. Drugs and Lactation Database (description and access) Lexi-Comp online (description and access) Lexi-interact online (description and access) MDConsult - (description and access) MICROMEDEX (description and access) MDConsult - (description and access) MICROMEDEX (description and access) Lexi-Comp Online - (description and access)
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Print Books
- Most books are filed in the WB call number.
E-books (keyword physical medicine, rehabilitation)
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Databases
AMED allied and alternative medicine -- (description and access)Database of International Rehabilitation Research Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information. -- (description and access) Physiotherapy Evidence Database (description and access) Rehab+ - A searchable database of the best evidence from the health care literature in rehab medicine. REHABDATA - a bibliographic database of the disability National Rehabilitation Information Center.
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Books
Print Books - Most print books are filed in the WM call number. E-books Keyword (mental, neuropsychiatry, psychiatry). Most books are filed in the WM call number.
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Web Resources
Internet mental health - A comprehensive mental health research tool with extensive links. It includes many full text books, links to common mental disorders, magazine articles etc. Psychbite - This is an open access catalog of cognitive and other treatments for psychological problems. |
Databases
PsycINFO - (description and access) PsycARTICLES - (description and access) Psychology and behavioral sciences collection - (description and access) Health and Psychosocial instruments (HAPI) -(description and access) PsycLINE - a free database which indexes more than 250 journals in the subject area of psychology. |
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Books
Print Books - Most print books are filed in the WF call number. E-books (keyword lung, pulmonary, respiratory)
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Web Resources
Lung Disease Finder (American Lung Association) |
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Books
Print Books - Most print books are filed in the WN call number. E-Books (keyword Diagnostic imaging, radiology)
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Web Resources
BringhamRAD -- This site has educational and research materials for radiologists, medical students and patients. It contains a RADPath which is a radiology/ pathology correlation module containing images and texts. It also includes a categorized list of links to external sites. Chorus - This contains more than 1,100 hypertext documents indexed by organ system. Each document describes diseases, radiological findings, differential diagnosis lists, and anatomy, pathology, and physiology. Medcyclopedia - This contains the complete on-line edition of the Encyclopaedia of Medical Imaging, the complete on-line edition of A Global Textbook of Radiology, as well as several hundred carefully chosen chapters from the ESNR CD-ROM series.
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Reference Sources
Below is a list of commonly used reference materials held within our library.
Many can all be found within our online catalog.
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General Reference |General Medical Reference | Abbreviations |Associations | Dictionaries (language) | Dictionary (Medical) | Directory (physicians) |Directory (hospital) | Directory (phone) |Encyclopedias |Quotations Bartleby.com: Great Books online - Bartleby.com provides access to a wide variety of reference works including directories, dictionaries, almanacs, thesauruses, etc. New York Public Library Desk Reference - The Desk Reference assembles into one volume the kind of basic information on popular subjects that provide answers to the most commonly asked questions in libraries. Filed at AG 6 N49 1989 Medilexicon - contains a portal of medical abbreviations, medical dictionary, directories, medical associations, etc. Healthfinder - Contains an online consumer focused medical encyclopedia and directory (US doctors, medical or health organizations and services.) E-books (keyword acronyms)
Acronym Finder
- Searchable database
containing common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects.
Associations on the net - Lists over 2000 associations - choose Health and Medical Sciences. Directory of health organizations (DIRLINE) - This provides a searchable directory of health organizations Health resource links - a list of national associations and organizations that provide specific disease information. Guide to medical organizations and agencies (2000) filed at W 22 AA1 G946 2000 Language Print Books Most print dictionaries are filed in the PE call number. Dictionary.com - An online dictionary
Print Books - Most print dictionaries are filed in the W13 call number.. E-books (keyword dictionary) Medilexicon - contains a portal of medical abbreviations, medical dictionary, directories, medical associations, etc. Directories see also Hospitals - Directories Infobel - provides access to a wide variety of telephone books worldwide. American Board of Internal Medicine - Find a board certified physician in the discipline of internal medicine and its subspecialties. Search for a doctor and find their qualifications. Docfinder - A public online physician database with data from state government licensing boards. Doctor Finder -- Find a doctor by name or specialty. This includes a directory of over 814,000 doctors in the US. Find a doctor (Washington State Medical Association) Find a physician (King County Medical Society) Provider credential search (Washington State Dept of Health) Print Books - Most medical encyclopedias are filed in the W13 call number. Healthfinder - Contains an online consumer focused medical encyclopedia MedlinePlus - This site contains access to medical directories, organizations and a medical encyclopedia. Print Books - Most print books are filed in PN call number. |
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Web Resources
Child Welfare Information Gateway - comprehensive information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. From the "Services and Tools" frame choose Library to search abstracts from thousands of publications related to aspects of child welfare. |
Databases
Social Work Abstracts Plus - (description and access)
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e see also Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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Print Books
- Most books are filed in the QT or WE call number..
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Natural standard - (description and access)
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Statistical and Survey Resources see also the topic you are interested in, for example Epidemiology will list resources that provide statistics on diseases, and Oncology will list cancer resources.
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Web Resources - General Data and statistics (CDC) -- Includes links to trends, surveys and vital statistics. It includes links to National Center for Health Statistics (CDC) which includes FASTATS, and CDC Wonder. Data tools and statistics (National Library of Medicine) - lists selective US government and international sources of health statistics. Web Resources - United States AHRQ Data Sources - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - contain statistics on medical expenditures, quality, etc. Health, United States - this provides an annual report of health in the United States. It is very statistical in emphasis and includes charts and graphs. Health Data Tools and Statistics - a portal of websites for finding health statistics HRSA Geospatial data warehouse -- This site presents demographic data for health status and health care access targeted in the areas of primary health care, health care provider resources, maternal and child health, public health, rural health, and HIV/AIDS. Statistics and Data (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) - often focuses on medicare spending and claims. USA - Statistical Reports
From Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce,
this is a clearinghouse of links to quality resources.
Web Resources - International Global Health Data
From Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce,
this is a clearinghouse of links to quality resources.
WHO statistical information system --WHOSIS, the WHO Statistical Information System, is an interactive database bringing together core health statistics for the 193 WHO Member States. It comprises more than 70 indicators, which can be accessed by way of a quick search, by major categories, or through user-defined tables.
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Books
Print Books - Most books are filed in the WO call number.. E-books (keyword surgery, surgical)
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Books Print Books - Most are filed in the QV or T call number.. E-books (keyword toxicology) |
Web Resources Where to find material safety datasheets on the Internet - Discusses several websites that contain information related to the Material Safety Datasheets. |
Databases
CHE Toxicant and Disease Database - (description and access) GIDEON (Global infectious disease and epidemiology network )--(description and access) Lexi-Interact Online (description and access) Toxnet (description and access)
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