LibGuides: Clinical Resources: General

Comprehensive Tools

Access Medicine This link opens in a new window
AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, researchers, and all health professionals with access to more than 75 medical titles from the best minds in medicine, updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, time-saving diagnostic and point-of-care tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to view from and download content to a mobile device. Updated frequently and expanded continuously by world-renowned physicians, AccessMedicine provides fast, direct access to the information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses, and case management decisions, as well as for pursuing research, medical education, or self-assessment and board review.
AccessSurgery This link opens in a new window
An integrated database of surgical texts and other resources, written and visual, that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with quick answers from trusted sources. Organized around the ACGME's (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) mandate for a core curriculum, AccessSurgery delivers content in context.
Scientific American Medicine This link opens in a new window
Scientific American Medicine is a peer-reviewed, evidence-based guide to clinical decision-making, covering 11 sub-specialties of internal medicine. Chapters on Clinical Essentials, Cardiovascular Medicine, Dermatology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Hematology, Immunology/Allergy, Infectious Disease, Interdisciplinary Medicine, Metabolism, Nephrology, Neurology, Oncology, Psychiatry, Respiratory Medicine, Rheumatology and Women's Health. Includes CME opportunities. In Stat!Ref, click the Texas Consortium link at upper left to be routed to SAM.
Stat!Ref This link opens in a new window
Stat!Ref is a cross-searchable reference database of full-text medical, pharmacology and nursing books, drug information from AHFS, evidence-based resources from ACP, and tools like ICD 9 and 10, Calculators, Stedman’s and the National Guideline Clearinghouse. Educational users have remote access to the latest editions of more than 80 standard texts and respected medical and nursing titles, such as Pharmacology World, Red Book Infectious Diseases and Taber's Medical Dictionary. Access includes Board Vitals question banks.

Medscape Reference
Medscape Reference contains comprehensive information on drugs and herbals, drug interactions, diseases and conditions, medical procedures, and anatomy, as well as practice guidelines and a physician finder tool. It also offers dozens of calculators pertaining to tests, diagnostic criteria and more, arranged by medical specialty.
Merck Manual for Healthcare Professionals
Contains clinical calculators, conversion tables, a table of drug trade and generic names, and normal laboratory values.
Trip - Find Evidence Fast
Trip is a search engine for quickly locating documentation on evidence-based practice. It draws from many sources: systematic reviews; evidence-based synopses; practice guidelines from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Australia and other countries; primary research articles from major medical journals; e-textbooks; and decision aids for patients as well as other patient-oriented information.

Guidelines

ACP Smart Medicine & AHFS DI® Essentials™
ACP Smart Medicine is a regularly-updated, decision support tool from the American College of Physicians.
CHEMM: Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management
CHEMM provides evidence-based information and guidance on a wide variety of topics, including quick chemical identification, acute patient care guidelines, and initial event activities.
Disease Management Project
The Disease Management Project is an online medical reference designed to provide nationally established treatment guidelines for the most commonly seen diseases and conditions.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents, updated weekly.
NICE Pathways
This online tool from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence gives fast, easy access by topic to the full range of guidance from NICE, including quality standards, technology appraisals, clinical and public health guidance, and implementation tools.

Systematic Reviews / Meta-Analyses

Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making including Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Health Technology Assessment Database and NHS Economic Evaluation Database
PubMed Clinical Queries This link opens in a new window
Preformatted clinically-based PubMed queries.

BestBETS
BETs were developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature.
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
A search at this site (updated daily) draws evidence-based healthcare information from DARE, the National Health Service’s Economic Evaluation Database (EED), and the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) database. CRD provides systematic reviews, economic evaluations and health technology assessments.
Cochrane Evidence
View open-access summaries of Cochrane reviews.

Drug Information

AHFS Consumer Medication Information This link opens in a new window
More than 1,100 detailed records for prescription drugs from the American Hospital Formulary Service, with information couched in layman's terms. Many of the records are available in both English and Spanish. Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

Drug Information Portal
This site provides the public, healthcare professionals, and researchers with a convenient gateway to current and accurate drug information from the National Library of Medicine, as well as links to drug information from the FDA and CDC, PubMed, and MedlinePlus.
FDA Drugs: Information for Healthcare Professionals
Use the prominent links to navigate to various sections of FDA Drugs: Drug Recalls, Drug Shortages, Drug Safety Communications, Medication Errors, and more.
LactMed (Drugs and Lactation Database)
Residing within TOXNET, this is a peer-reviewed reference tool to help patients and healthcare professionals answer questions about drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed, whether prescription, over-the-counter, or illicit. Information is focused on the possible effects for lactating mothers and breastfed infants and includes links to related and/or alternate drugs.
LIVERTOX
LIVERTOX® provides up-to-date, accurate, and easily accessed information on the diagnosis, cause, frequency, patterns, and management of liver injury attributable to prescription and nonprescription medications, herbals and dietary supplements.
Orange Book
The Orange Book provides updated information on prescription, over-the-counter, and discontinued FDA-approved drug products.
PDR.net
This online version of the Physician’s Desk Reference offers concise drug summary monographs and FDA Drug Communications of warnings, recalls, and approvals.

Studies

ClinicalTrials.gov
ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and results database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world. Currently lists approximately 153,000 studies/trials, with locations in all 50 states and 184 countries.
PubMed Clinical Queries
Save time by limiting your initial search to Etiology, Diagnosis, Therapy, Prognosis, Clinical prediction guides, or Systematic Reviews.
PubMed Single Citation Matcher
Quickly get to the full text of that one specific article you need by entering the citation information here.
SUMSearch 2
SUMSearch 2 simultaneously searches free Web resources: PubMed, DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects) and National Guideline Clearinghouse for evidence-based healthcare information.

Diagnosis

VisualDX This link opens in a new window
VisualDx is a web-based clinical decision support tool used to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety. TMC Library’s VisualDx subscription includes mobile access. The VisualDx app is available on iPhone, iPad, and Android.

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