More Information about the Licensed Areas

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Citation Databases

(Citation Databases contain bibliographic details and author abstracts from national and international publications.)

AustHealth & Meditext
Produced by the National Library of Australia, currently indexes 160+ Australasian journals, with 95+ Australasian journals in full text. Information is indexed on all aspects of Allied Health, Nursing, Medicine, the Social Sciences and Humanities.

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
This database provides access to abstracts, healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, educational software and audiovisual materials in nursing.

Medline
Produced by the U.S.A. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Medline indexes information from all areas of medicine, health services and administration. More than 3,900 journals are indexed, with abstracts included for about 51% of the records.

PsycINFO
Produced by the American Psychological Association, covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, and education.

FullText Clinicians Health Channel Journals@Ovid
FullText Clinicians Health Channel Journals@Ovid is a subset of the larger Journals@Ovid database that is limited to only the journals that the Clinicians Health Channel project subscribes. That means you will only view the citations, in full text, to which we have provided access.

Journals@Ovid
Journals@Ovid is a single database that contains the Ovid Full Text and graphics of every full text journal offered by the Ovid publishers. Regardless of the number of subscribed Journals@Ovid titles, every Journals@Ovid subscriber gets access to all of the Tables of Contents, Bibliographic citations, Abstracts, and references in the entire database.

Evidence Based Practice

BMJ Clinical Evidence
Prepared by the British Medical Journal Publishing Group, Clinical Evidence provides a concise account of the current state of knowledge about the prevention and treatment of a wide range of conditions seen in primary and hospital care settings. Clinical Evidence identifies important clinical questions, and then searches for and summarises the best evidence available to answer them.

Text Books

Harrison's Online Delivers complete text, illustrations, and expanded features from the 15th edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, including additional references, links to MEDLINE abstracts and important information from emerging fields.

Therapeutic Guidelines
Aim to provide succinct and explicit recommendations for therapy for a broad range of conditions. The recommendations are an independent source of therapeutic advice and represent consensus opinion based on evidence, reviewed by a panel of experienced Australian practitioners. Therapeutic Guidelines are a valuable 'second opinion' for experienced prescribers.

Books@OVID
Comprises a collection of respected key texts in Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacology. There are a broad array of topics and titles covering most aspects of medicine and clinical practice.

Drug Information

Australian Medicines Handbook
A formulary of drugs marketed in Australia. There are three main types of information supplied, drug monographs, drug class and treatment documents.

MIMS
Documents essential product information on over 2,300 prescription and non-prescription drugs used in Australian clinical practice.

Micromedex
Contains clinical decision support databases and tools, including:

• a Drug Interaction Tool - which allows you to key in a list of drugs a patient is taking and determines the interactions between the drugs, food, alcohol, tobacco, lab interferences and disease contraindications
• Alternative Medicine Information - including interaction information with prescription drugs
• Emergency Medicine, Medical and Acute Care Protocols for diagnosis & treatment
• Poisons or Toxicology Management information - including clinical effects, treatment, management, pharmacology and toxicology on such things as spider or snake bites, chemicals, household products, cosmetics, paints, poisonous plants, street drug & prescription drug overdose and much more.

Full text clinical reviews on various diseases and conditions, eg. Pneumothorax, Lyme disease, Aortic dissection, Child abuse, Elder abuse.

Micromedex Health Care Series Alert
In the event of failure of on-line access to the emergency databases contained within Micromedex the following document contains contact details for sites that hold an up to date CD version of the software. Please print the
PoisIndex and EmergIndex emergency access contact details (6kb, pdf) and keep for future reference.

Therapeutic Guidelines
Aim to provide succinct and explicit recommendations for therapy for a broad range of conditions. The recommendations are an independent source of therapeutic advice and represent consensus opinion based on evidence, reviewed by a panel of experienced Australian practitioners. Therapeutic Guidelines are a valuable 'second opinion' for experienced prescribers.

There are ten titles and one compilation text related to the issues with breastfeeding and pregnancy. Some of the common titles include, Analgesic, Antibiotic, Respiratory, and Psychotropic, amongst others. Traditionally Therapeutic Guidelines have been distributed as pocket-sized books. The electronic format creates new possibilities, such as improved access and searching capabilities across the texts.

Paediatric Pharmacopoeia
(This database requires ALL users to enter a password)
This well-known reference has approximately 100 new drug entries of alphabetical drug listings for quick reference information on guidelines for upper limit of paediatric dose, drug administration and compatibility, therapeutic drug monitoring, indications for use, trade names and preparations available.

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