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About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Information Resource

AAFP Conditions A to Z

ACP’s PIER: The Physicians’ Information and Education Resource with AHFS DI Essentials

ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice

Adam's & Victor's Principles of Neurology

Advisory Board Company (US)
How to access the site (WA Health intranet link)
Research and briefs on progressive management and clinical practices in health care.

AHFS Drug Information
(American Hospital Formulary Service)

AIHW National Perinatal Statistics Unit
Perinatal, congenital anomalies, maternal deaths, thematic and developmental statistics.

APA (American Psychological Association) Style

Analgesic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Anatomy TV

Antibiotic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

ARCHI
The Australian Resource Centre for Healthcare Innovation (ARCHI) is an information service for Australian health professionals and health service managers that supports the implementation of effective and quality innovations in clinical care in  hospitals and across the community.

ARROW Discovery Service
Theses, working papers, technical reports etc from Australian university research repositories.

AustHealth

Australasian Cochrane Centre

Australasian Legal Information Institute (AUSTLII)

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics - ABS@WAgov

Australian Cancer Network Clinical Guidelines

Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assult (ACSSA)
Information and resources on sexual assault.

Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies
Information on issues affecting young people from early adolescence to the early adult years.

Australian Department of Health and Ageing Health Priority Areas

Australian Department of Health and Ageing National Medicines Policy

Australian Department of Health and Ageing's Programs & Initiatives

Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse
News and information on domestic and family violence policy, practice and research.

Australian Drug Information Network (ADIN) (Drug and Alcohol Abuse)

Australian Government Publication Information

Australian Immunisation Handbook (9th edition, 2008)

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet

Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Medicines Handbook

Australian Resuscitation Council Guidelines

Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures (Surgical) (ASERNIPS)

Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (Katzung)

Behind the Headlines (NHS)
Behind the headlines provides an unbiased and evidence-based analysis of health stories that make the news. The service is intended for both the public and health professionals.

Beyond Blue, the National Depression Initiative

BioMed Central Journals
Original research titles are free access, review titles require a subscription.

BMJ Journals Online

Boolean Searching on the Internet: a Primer in Boolean Logic

Braunwald's Heart Disease: a Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine

Brenner & Rector's The Kidney

Burket's Oral Medicine: Diagnosis and Treatment

Campbell Collaboration

Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics

Campbell-Walsh Urology (Wein)

Cardiovascular Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

CareSearch (Australia)
Palliative care database.

CARPA Standard Treatment Manual Reference (Central Australian Rural Practitioners Association)

CASP - Critical Appraisal Skills Programme

Catalogue (Joint Catalogue with other WA Health Services)

Cecil Textbook of Medicine (Goldman)

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM)

Child Health Library

Child Trends (US)
Research to improve outcomes for children, and youth (includes teen sex and pregnancy).

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (Ebsco)
(Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature with full text)
CINAHL Plus with Full Text for Smartphones & Mobiles

CIRRIE Database of International Rehabilitation Research

Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers 2nd ed 2007 (National Library of Medicine)

Clinical Dermatology (Habif)

Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods (Henry)

Clinical Evidence

Clinical Electrocardiography: A Simplified Approach (Goldberger)

Clinical Oncology (Abeloff)

Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine (Roberts)

CME Centre (Continuing education from MD Consult)

Cochrane Collaboration

Cochrane Library

Cochrane Library User guide (Australasian Cochrane Centre)

ComLaw
Full text of Commonwealth legislation and the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI).

Communities and Families Clearinghouse Australia (CAFCA)
Aims to improve access to current information and resources to assist those working in the field of early childhood and community development.

Comprehensive Gynecology (Katz)

Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health: (CEMACH Publications)
Includes series: Why Mothers Die, Perinatal Mortality, Diabetes in Pregnancy.

Conn's Current Therapy (Rakel & Bope)

Consent Information Sheets
Intranet access only.

Control of Communicable Diseases Manual

CSL Antivenom Handbook

Cummings Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery

Current Critical Care Diagnosis & Treatment (Bongard)

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Cardiology (Crawford)

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Emergency Medicine

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Gastroenterology (Grendell)

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Infectious Disease (Wilson)

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Orthopedics (Skinner)

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Pediatrics (Hay)

Current Diagnosis & Treatment Obstetrics & Gynecology (DeCherney)

Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment (Tierney)

Current Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment (Way)

Curtin University of Technology Referencing Guide
Includes APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA & Vancouver styles.

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)

DeGowin’s Diagnostic Examination (DeGowin)

DeLee and Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine

Delmar's Fundamental and Advanced Nursing Skills (Altman)

Delmar's Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests

Department of Health (WA) Statistics
Includes abortions, and perinatal, infant and maternal statistics.

Dermatology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Developmental Disability Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations

Directory of Open Access Journals

Diversity Health Institute Clearinghouse (Australia)
Central access point for Australian multicultural health services, resources, research and projects.

Download of Psychiatry

Drug Information (MD Consult)

DrugPoints® System

Drug Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding (Therapeutic Guidelines)

DSM-IV-TR - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

DUETs (Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments)

Dynamed
Clinical reference tool containing evidence summaries.

Ebsco CINAHL Plus with Full Text
(Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature)
Ebsco CINAHL Plus with Full Text for Smartphones & Mobiles

Ebsco Health Business Journal Collection
Ebsco Health Business Collection for Smartphones & Mobiles

Ebsco MEDLINE with Full Text
Ebsco MEDLINE with Full Text for Smartphones & Mobiles

Ebsco Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Journal Collection
Ebsco Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection for Smartphones & Mobiles

Ebsco PsycINFO
Ebsco PsycINFO for Smartphones & Mobiles

ECG Learning Center in Cyberspace - Alan E Lindsay Center

ECG Library

Educator's Reference Desk

Embase (Ovid)

Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide (Tintinalli)

EndNote Tutorials

EndNote Web Tutorial

Endocrinology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

ERIC
(US Education Resources Information Center)

Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Frontera)

Essentials of Radiology (Mettler)

eTBLAST

Evidence-Based Answers to Clinical Questions for Busy Clinicians
Workbook from The Centre for Clinical Effectiveness, Melbourne.

Evidence-Based Health Care Project (University of Minnesota)

Evidence Matters
The "Basic Free Version" compares therapies (effectiveness, safety and cost) for a specific patient using peer-reviewed medical research. Currently covers cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, gynaecology, neurology, oncology, orthopaedics, paediatrics and urology.

The experiences of parents and families of children and young people in care (2008)
A social research project undertaken by Anglicare WA on behalf of Family Inclusion Network WA.

Eye Emergency Manual: an Illustrated Guide (NSW Health)

Family Medicine: Principles and Practice (Taylor)

Ferri's Clinical Advisor

Ferri's Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient

Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology

Foundations of Nursing Research

Free Books 4 Doctors

Free Medical Journals

Gastrointestinal Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Geriatric Medicine, an Evidence Based Approach

Global Index Medicus (World Health Organization)
Index to African, Carribean, Eastern Mediterranean, Latin American and South East Asian journal articles.

Global Library of Women's Medicine

Goodman & Gilman’s: Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics

Google

GoogleScholar

GovPubs (Australian Government Publications Guide)

Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology: a Textbook of Medical Imaging

Grey Literature Report

Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care

Haddad and Winchester's Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose (Shannon)

Harriet Lane Handbook: a Manual for Pediatric House Officers (Johns Hopkins)

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (Access Medicine)

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (STAT!Ref)

Harvard (Author/Date) Style
The University of Melbourne.

Having a Baby in Perth (WNHS)
A new website for prospective parents with information on pregnancy care and birth options in Western Australia.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)

HealthInsite

Hematology: Basic Principles and Practice (Hoffman)

HighWire Press Journals

Hitting the Headlines Archive
An analysis of the evidence behind selected health stories reported in national newspapers. Summaries of news stories are posted within 48 hours of newspaper publication to ensure that health professionals and the public are better informed about the accuracy of reporting of research in the press. The National Library for Health’s Hitting the Headlines service ended on 31st March 2008 and provision of the searchable archive will be reviewed after 6 months.

Hursts the Heart (Fuster)

Infectious Diseases (Cohen & Powderly)

Infectious Diseases Society of America Standards, Practice Guidelines and Statements

Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences

Integrative Medicine (Rakel)

Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine
Online tutorial from Duke University Medical Center Library and Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill.

Intute Health & Life Sciences

Joanna Briggs Institute and JBI Connect

Journals A - Z

Journals Available - Links into Particular Packages, eg ScienceDirect, Ebsco, etc

Journals@Ovid

Kelley's Textbook of Rheumatology

Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children (Gershon)

LactMed
(Drugs and Lactation Database - US National Library of Medicine)

LISTA
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts.

Map of Medicine Healthguides (UK)

Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference

Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry (Stern)

Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women’s Health Across the Lifespan

MBS Online (Medical Benefits Schedule)

MD Consult
A searchable collection including medical texts, journals, and the Clinics.

MedCalc 3000 Medical Reference and Decision Support Tools
MedCalc 3000 encompasses a wide range of medical formulae, calculators, conversion tools, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools commonly used by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and students. Tools include:

Media Doctor (Australia)

Media Portal

Medical Journal of Australia Clinical Guidelines

MEDLINE with Full Text
MEDLINE with Full Text for Smartphones & Mobiles

MedlinePlus (US)

Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy

Merck Manual of Geriatrics

Merck Manuals

Micromedex
Drugs, Poisoning and Toxicology information.

Middleton's Allergy: Principles and Practice (Adkinson)

Miller's Anesthesia

MIMS Online

MIMS Online Tutorial

Multicultural Mental Health Australia (MMHA)
Provides national leadership in building greater awareness of mental health and suicide prevention amongst Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

National Academies Press
More than 2,500 free online books.

National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC). Clinical Best Practice

National Cancer Institute (US National Institutes of Health)

National Child Protection Clearinghouse (Australia)
Information and research on child abuse prevention and child protection.

National Drug Strategy

National Health & Medical Research Council (NH&MRC)

National Guideline Clearinghouse (US)

National Guidelines for Organ and Tissue Donation / Australasian Transplant Coordinators Association Incorporated 3rd Edition 2006

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Over 100 searchable NLM databases and electronic resources.

National Library of Medicine Gateway
A metasearch of NLM's databases; including PubMed, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov and more.

National Prescribing Service (Australia)

National Public Health Partnership

Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics (Kliegman)

Neonatology: Management, Procedures, On-Call Problems, Diseases and Drugs

Netting the Evidence Google Custom Search Engine
Searches over one hunded websites associated with the methodology of evidence based practice.

Neurology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

NH&MRC

NHS Choices

NHS Evidence
A meta-search of authoritative clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practices from the UK NHS.

NHS National Library of Guidelines (UK)

NSW Speech Pathology EBP Network

NICE

Obstetrics Normal and Problem Pregnancies (Gabbe)

OECD Health Data 2009
Comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries.

OmniMedicalSearch

OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories)

Operative Surgery Manual (Khatri)

Ophthalmology (Yanoff)

Osler Medical Handbook

Osteoporosis Australia

Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery (Cummings)

OTseeker
(Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Evidence)

Ovid Embase

OvidSP Training Resources
Tutorials for basic searching, advanced searching, finding citations.

Oxford Textbook of Medicine

Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy (Gabbard)

Paediatric Pharmacopoeia (Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne)

Palliative Care Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Palliative Medicine (Walsh)

Patient Handouts  (MD Consult)

Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners (Park)

Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and their Families

PEDro

Practical Echocardiography for theNeonatologist. Available onsite. Use Core Systems or HEALTH from the Start menu.

PhysioEngine

Practice Guidelines (MD Consult)

Practice of Geriatrics (Duthie)

Primary Preventive Dentistry

Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases (Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett)

Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Long)

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health

Psychiatric Secrets (Jacobson)

Psychology Related Electronic Journals and Periodicals

Psychotropic Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

PsycInfo (Ebsco)
PsycInfo for Smartphones & Mobiles

PsycLine: Your Guide to Psychology and Social Science Journals on the Web

PubList: The Internet Directory of Publications

PubMed (Medline) (US National Library of Medicine)
PubMed for Handhelds

PubMed Basics (US National Library of Medicine)

PubMed Bookshelf

PubMed Central Journals

PubMed Journals Database
Search by journal title abbreviation, journal title or ISSN to find either the full journal title or the abbreviation.

PubMed Ten Tips (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library)

PubMed Tutorial (US National Library of Medicine)

RCPA Manual see Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Manual

Red Book: Report of the Committee on Infectious Disease

RehabData
(US National Rehabilitation Information Center)

Respiratory Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Review of General Psychiatry (Goldman)

Review of Medical Physiology (Ganong)

Review of Natural Products

Rheumatology Guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines)

Robbins and Cotran: Pathologic Basis of Disease (Kumar)

Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) College Statements

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Guidelines

Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Manual

Rudolph's Pediatrics

Sabiston Textbook of Surgery (Townsend)

SAI Global Standards Australia
Use the Department of Health link to access the full text of Australia standards.  Please note that the Department has a single user license for all of Health so it is important to log out once you have finished using the site.

Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits

Schwartz's Principles of Surgery

Science Direct Journals (selected titles)

Scirus

SIGN (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network)

Skeletal Trauma in Children (Green & Swiontkowski)

Skeletal Trauma: Basic Science, Management, and Reconstruction (Browner)

Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease

SMART: Scientific and Medical Art Imagebase
Illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other health science topics.

Smith’s General Urology (Tanagho)

StatRef Collection

Stedman’s Medical Dictionary

Stockley's Drug Interactions

SUMSearch
Meta search tool which searches across several evidence based health sources.

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary

Teaching / Learning Resources for Evidence Based Practice
Middlesex University

Textbook of Clinical Neurology (Goetz)

Textbook of Family Medicine (Rakel)

Textbook of Respiratory Medicine (Murray & Nadel)

Therapeutic Exercise: Foundations and Techniques

Therapeutic Goods Administration Clinical Guidelines

Therapeutic Guidelines
Includes:  Analgesic, Antibiotic, Cardiovascular, Dermatology, Endocrinology, Gastrointestinal, Neurology, Palliative Care, Psychotropic, Respiratory, Rheumatology, Drug use in pregnancy and breastfeeding, Developmental Disability.

Therapeutic Modalities in Rehabilitation

This Week In Medicine
MD Consult clinical summaries customized to your interests, synopses of current medical publications and events, what patients are reading, contents of major journals, topical reviews and more. Updated daily.

Toxnet (US National Library of Medicine)
Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

Trauma (Moore)

TRIP Database (Turning Research Into Practice)
A meta-search engine that searches across sites of high-quality clinical information.

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (AKA the Vancouver style)

UpToDate (only available at single workstation KEMH library)

US National Guideline Clearinghouse

Users' Guides to Evidence Based Practice (the JAMA Articles)

WA Aboriginal Health Strategy

WA Mental Health Policy and Strategic Plan 2010 - 2020

WA State Law Publisher

Western Australian Medication Safety Group (WAMSG)
Operational Circulars and Directives, Safety Alerts and Patient Information.

Western Australian Psychotropic Drugs Committee (WAPDC) Guidelines and Information
Guidelines on drug treatment for anxiety disorders, antipsychotic drugs, etc.

Western Australian Therapeutics Advisory Group (WATAG)
Advisory Notes, Antibiotic Use Evaluation Reports, Clinical Guidelines and Operational Circulars and Directives.

Wilderness Medicine (Auerbach)

Williams Textbook of Endocrinology (Kronenberg)

Williams Obstetrics

Women and Newborn Health Library

Women's Health: A Primary Care Clincal Guide

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