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  • A database of structured descriptions of congenital abnormalities associated with mental retardation. Eponymous names are supplemented by full personal names to assist in differentiating similar syndromes. Users may browse an alphabetical list or search by keyword (all fields), major feature, syndrome name or synonym, MeSH term, OMIM number, etc. Knowledgeable users may submit additional entries for eventual inclusion. Syndrome descriptions include links to matching OMIM entries.
  • JAMAevidence McGraw-Hill, TRIAL ENDED 15.MAR.2013.
    JAMAevidence assists users in identifying the best available evidence. It provides access to textbooks: The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis (2009), and A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice (2008), and Care at the Close of Life : Evidence and Experience (2011) as well as useful tools: education guides, glossary, calculators, worksheets, question wizards, weekly RSS feed of featured JAMA articles, compiled clinical scenarios, podcasts, and user-level customization features.
  • "Using Internet technology, it is designed to help you follow the development of information and media, and attitudes about them, from the beginning of records to the present. Containing annotated references to discoveries, developments of a social, scientific, theoretical or technological nature, as well as references to physical books, documents, artifacts, art works, and to websites and other digital media, it arranges, both chronologically and thematically, selected historical examples and recent developments of the methods used to record, distribute, exchange, organize, store, and search information"--Website.
  • Provides evidence-based nursing information prepared by expert reviewers at Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). It includes several databases: Best Practice Information Sheets, Consumer Information Sheets, Evidence Summaries, Recommended Practices, Systematic Review Protocols, Systematic Reviews, and Technical Reports.
  • A categorized registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations or other types of abbreviated publication titles. Selected library catalogs providing abbreviated title searching have also been included.
  • Journal watch 1987-, Mass Med Soc

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UpToDate: A point-of-care clinical information resource containing succinct and aggressively updated clinical topic reviews.PubMed@Stanford link that provides fulltext access to Lane's resources. Includes the MEDLINE database, which contains coverage of over 5000 journals and more than 16 million citations for biomedical articles, including, but not limited to, clinical trials, systematic reviews, case reports, and clinical practice guidelines.
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A drug information resource containing: American Hospital Formulary System (AHFS), drug formulary for Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH) and Stanford Hospital & Clinics (SHC), Lexi-Drugs (adverse reactions, dosage and administration, mechanism of action, storage, use, and administration information), Lexi-Calc, Lexi-ID, Lexi-I.V. Compatibility (King Guide), Lexi-Interact, and Lexi-PALS.Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) contains coverage of nursing and allied health literature. A specialized PubMed search geared towards helping clinicians quickly access systematic reviews. A knowledge database that provides access to topic reviews based on over 6000 clinically relevant articles. Provides critical assessments of systematic reviews compiled from a variety of medical journals.Selects from the biomedical literature original studies and systematic reviews that are immediately clinically relevant and then summarizes these articles in an enhanced abstract with expert commentary.Multidisciplinary coverage of over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences. Includes cited reference searching, citation maps, and an analyze tool.Multidisciplinary coverage of over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences. Includes cited reference searching, citation maps, and an analyze tool.Features systematic reviews that summarize the effects of interventions and makes a determination whether the intervention is efficacious or not. Cochrane reviews are created through a strict process of compiling and analyzing data from multiple randomized control trials to ensure comprehensiveness and reliability.Provides systematic coverage of the psychological literature from the 1800s to the present through articles, book chapters and dissertations.A decision support tool that includes guidelines, articles, text books and drug information.Lane provides access to over 5,000 eBooks many of which provide helpful background material that will prepare you to better tackle primary literature. Features topic reviews that include a synthesis of the biomedical literature and specific patient care recommendations. Provides reviews of treatments for over 250 conditions that summarize the related available evidence from systematic reviews, clinical trials, observational studies and clinical practice guidelines.PIER (Physicians' Information and Education Resource) is a Web-based decision-support tool designed for rapid point-of-care delivery of up-to-date, evidence-based guidance for primary care physicians.Cochrane Central registry of Controlled Trials (CCTR) provides access to 300,000 controlled trials that have been identified the Cochrane Collaboration. A major drug resource providing information organized by drug types, diseases, acute care, toxicology and alternative medicines. Provides drug information targeted for patients. A drug database organized by generic name, trade name and drug class.LPCH / Stanford Hospital Formulary A goldmine of trusted consumer health information from the world's largest medical library Provides patient handouts from the American Academy of Family Physician Access to the Stanford Health Library for patients. A continually updating drug monograph.
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