Database | Brief Description |
UpToDate |
A practical clinical reference tool that provides quick access to synthesized medical information in an easy-to-use format. Provides access to over 8,500 topics. |
Clinical Key |
An online search tool that provides answers to clinical questions. It covers every medical and surgical specialty and provides access to over 600,000 articles; from more than 500 journals. |
Access Medicine |
An online collection of key medical reference texts that provide authoritative and current medical data. Medical news, updates, patient education information, a diagnostic tool, and an integrated drug database with information about dosages, trade names, and pricing are also part of this resource. |
Nursing Consult |
Brings the leading nursing resources together in one service to help nurses efficiently find answers to clinical questions http://www.nursingconsult.com/nursing/index |
TRIP Database |
TRIP brings together the key evidence-based healthcare resources available on the Internet. Eight major categories are searched by the TRIP search engine: Evidence based, guidelines, general peer-reviewed journals, query-answering services, specialist peer-reviewed journals, e-textbooks, medical images and patient information leaflets. |
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