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for UCLH staff The following databases are available to UCLH staff via the Trust network. Many are also available away from the workplace. Some additional databases may be available in your home Library. In the majority of cases access is controlled by the Athens authentication system, and a username and password are required. |
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AMED The Allied and Alternative Medicine Database (AMED) is a unique bibliographic database produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library. It covers a selection of journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, and several professions allied to medicine. Subject coverage: complementary medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, podiatry, palliative care. |
AMED via NHS Evidence Click the link for access: www.library.nhs.uk/booksandjournals Online guide Access is provided by NHS Evidence and an NHS Athens account is required for access. |
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British National Formulary (BNF) The BNF is published by the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB). It is intended mainly for doctors, pharmacists and nurses in the NHS & is designed as a rapid-reference digest, providing up-to-date guidance on the selection, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines. BNF is updated every six months (March and September). It details all the medicines generally prescribed in the UK, with special reference to their indications, cautions, contra-indications, side-effects, dosage and relative costs. It reflects current best practice as well as legal and professional guidelines relating to the use of medicines. |
An NHS Athens account is required - click 'Login for Athens users'. Users without an NHS Athens account may perform up to 5 free searches. To do so, register at the eBNF site (registration is free). |
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British Nursing Index The British Nursing Index (BNI) is a bibliographic database containing articles from the most popular English language nursing journals published primarily in the UK, comprising over 220 nursing and allied health journals from 1994. It increases annually by approximately 9000 entries. BNI covers all aspects of nursing, midwifery and community healthcare. |
BNI via NHS Evidence Click the link for access: www.library.nhs.uk/booksandjournals Online guide Access is provided by NHS Evidence and an NHS Athens account is required for access. |
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CINAHL The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health database is produced by CINAHL Information Systems. It covers the literature from 1982 to present and covers more than 1200 journal titles. This bibliographic database covers the following topics: health education, occupational therapy, physical therapy, technology therapy, social service/health care, emergency service. It also provides access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, and selected conference proceedings. It is updated monthly. |
CINAHL via NHS Evidence Click the link for access: www.library.nhs.uk/booksandjournals Online guide Access is provided by NHS Evidence and an NHS Athens account is required for access. |
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Clinical Evidence (from BMJ) Clinical Evidence is published by the BMJ Publishing Group and is a continuously updated source of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions. It summarises the current state of knowledge. It is not a textbook of medicine nor a set of guidelines, if there is no good evidence it says so. It covers medical, surgical, nursing, and complementary interventions. |
Click the link for access: clinicalevidence.bmj.com Access to Clinical Evidence has been provided to UCLH staff by UCL Library Services and an NHS Athens account is required. |
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Clinical Knowledge Summaries Funded by the NHS, the Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) service is an up-to-date source of clinical knowledge that can help healthcare professionals, and patients, in managing the common conditions generally seen in primary and first-contact care. This knowledge is available in a variety of formats including full PRODIGY guidance, quick reference guides, and patient information leaflets that cover acute and chronic illnesses, and disease prevention. Around 200 topics are covered. |
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Cochrane
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The Cochrane Library is the premier resource for information on the effectiveness of healthcare interventions. It is a collection of information put together by the Cochrane Collaboration, the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and others. It is updated quarterly. It includes 4 main databases:
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Click the link for access: www.thecochranelibrary.com Cochrane's user guides: intro - advanced - setting up alerts Free - access is now freely available to users in England, without the need for any passwords. |
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DTB aims to provide informed and unbiased assessments of drugs and other treatments (focusing on efficacy, safety, convenience and cost in particular in relation to other available treatments); to comment on how those drugs or other treatments should be used; to assess their place in overall management, and; to review evidence and give practical advice on the overall management of disease. |
Click the link for access: dtb.bmj.com Access to this resource has been provided to UCLH staff by UCL Library Services and an NHS Athens account is required.. |
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Embase Bibliographic database which gives access to online version of Excerpta Medica. It is produced by Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. and offers international coverage of the drug-related literature (drugs and toxicology, clinical medicine, biotechnology and bioengineering, health affairs, psychiatry, forensic medicine. The database includes data from 3500 biomedical journals, dating back to 1980. It is updated monthly. |
Embase via NHS Evidence Click the link for access: www.library.nhs.uk/booksandjournals Online guide Access is provided by NHS Evidence and an NHS Athens account is required for access. |
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HMIC
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DH-Data: from the Dept of Health & the PH Information Unit, covers health service & hospital administration with an emphasis on the British NHS, including buildings, equipment, primary care, social policy, medical toxicology and environmental health; 2000 English language journals, as well as books, reports, and other official publication. Coverage is from 1983-. King's Fund: 1979-, 75,000+ records. Covers UK health policy documents and 'grey' literature from health and social care organisations on topics including NHS management, social care, health inequalities, urban health, race & health, partnership working, primary care, mental health, public involvement, and workforce development. |
HMIC via NHS Evidence Click the link for access: www.library.nhs.uk/booksandjournals Online guide Access is provided by NHS Evidence and an NHS Athens account is required for access. |
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Medline
Medline is a bibliographic database produced by the US National Library of Medicine. It covers worldwide literature published since 1966. Around 4000 journal titles are indexed, in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care system and pre-clinical sciences. 70% of the references have an abstract. The database is updated weekly by the NLM. However, depending on which service you use to access the database, there might be some indexing delay before the articles appear on the database. Please check each service for more details. There are a variety of different services providing access to Medline. We have provided information on the two most widely used here: PubMed, Dialog Medline |
Medline via PubMed
Click the link for access: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi Online guide Free - access to this version of Medline is free and no username and password are required. This version of Medline is very up to date and updated weekly, however some of the most recent records will not be complete (e.g. no abstracts). Medline via NHS Evidence |
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NHNN Patient Support Database Database that gives details of neurological charities, societies, and support groups. Although still under construction, information is actively being added to the patient support database by library staff. We hope that this will be a rich and unique source of patient information for people with neurological disorders. |
Click the link for access: www.ion.ucl.ac.uk/library/patient/patient-support.html Free - access is free and no username and password are required. |
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PsycINFO A bibliographic database of psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. The database contains more than 2 million records spanning 1806 to the present and journal coverage includes approximately 2,000 periodicals. Chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987 to the present; however, there is a substantial number of records covering books published earlier. Dissertations constitute approximately 12% of the database. |
PsycInfo via NHS Evidence Click the link for access: www.library.nhs.uk/booksandjournals Online guide Access is provided by NHS Evidence and an NHS Athens account is required for access. |
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TRIP (Turning Research into Practice) The TRIP Database brings together 'evidence-based' healthcare resources available on the internet. There are over 29,000 links from about 70 sources - including peer-reviewed journals and 'eTextbooks'. The site is updated monthly. |
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Zetoc Electronic Table of Contents service from the British Library - you can create an alert to receive the tables of contents of your chosen journals by email. The database contains approx.20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings (over 20 million individual records) and covers most subjects in the fields of science, technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance and the humanities. It covers the years from 1993 onwards and is updated daily. |
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This page last updated:27-Aug-2009 |
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