Health Databases
► AHFS Consumer Medication Information
This EBSCOhost database is a trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish. It includes more than a thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers. Content is updated monthly.
► CINAHL Complete
This EBSCOhost database is the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. CINAHL®Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature.
► Consumer Health Complete
This EBSCOhost database is the single-most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. Designed to support the information needs of patients, the CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Contains the full text for more than 250 health reference books and encyclopedias, evidence-based health reports, images and diagrams, physician-generated videos on an array of topics, more than 2,000 Health Daily videos from NBC Digital Health Network, Full-text consumer health pamphlets and leaflets, and animations with audio narration.
► Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
DARE, an EBSCOhost database that is part of The Cochrane Library, includes abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world, which have been critically analyzed according to a high standard of criteria. This database provides access to quality reviews in subjects for which a Cochrane review may not yet exist.
► Health Source - Consumer Edition
This EBSCOhost database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
► Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition
This EBSCOhost database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
► Health Technology Assessments
HTA, an EBSCOhost database that is part of The Cochrane Library, provides details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions) from around the world. The aim of the database is to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care. In addition to systematic reviews, HTA contains ongoing and completed research based on trials, questionnaires and economic evaluations.
► ICE Video Library (ezproxy link - [10/16] )
The ICE Video Library, from the ICE Learning Center, provides excellent visual resources to both faculty and students in physical and occupational therapy curriculum. With unlimited access to streaming videos of real-life patient assessment and intervention, the ICE Video Library can be viewed on campus, at home, on the go and in online courses! All of the videos are professionally filmed with actual patients and therapists in real-life treatment settings including acute care, skilled nursing, outpatient, home health and ICU. (ICE stands for International Clinical Educators, Inc.)
► MEDLINE
MEDLINE, available from EBSCOhost, provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
► NHS Economic Evaluation Database
This EBSCOhost database, part of The Cochrane Library, assists decision-makers in the world of professional health care by providing information on the costs and effects of drugs, treatments and procedures. Economic evaluations - the cost-benefit analysis of two or more different medical treatments - from around the world are systematically identified, described and appraised for quality while their relative strengths and weaknesses are explored and highlighted. The database contains over 6,000 abstracts of quality-assessed economic evaluations and more than 21,000 total records. NHS EED is produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York, UK.
► Nursing Reference Center
Nursing Reference Center, from EBSCOhost, is the premier evidence-based information resource designed specifically for nurses. With Nursing Reference Center, nurses can get answers to questions quickly, strengthen their nursing skills, and read full-text journal articles anytime, and anywhere.
► Scientific & Medical ART (SMART) Imagebase
The SMART Imagebase, from EBSCOhost, enables you to download thousands of medical illustrations, videos, interactive tools, and monographs of anatomy, physiology, embryology, surgery, trauma, pathology, diseases, conditions and other topics. Search the database or browse by content, body systems/regions or medical specialties.
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