About Herbs
[ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Information Resource: About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products]
AAFP Conditions A to Z
ACP’s PIER: The Physicians’ Information and Education Resource with AHFS DI Essentials
ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice
Adam's & Victor's Principles of Neurology
Advisory Board Company
How to access the site (WA Health intranet link)
The Advisory Board is a membership of 2,500 of the USA's largest and most progressive health systems and medical centers. The Advisory Board gathers data across and beyond the membership and publishes daily and weekly news services, 50 major studies and 3,000 customized research briefs each year on progressive management and clinical practices in health care. In general the research focuses on the best (and worst) demonstrated practices, helping member institutions benefit from one another's learning curves.
AHFS Drug Information
[American Hospital Formulary Service]
Alcohol & Other Drugs: a Handbook for Health Professionals
American Psychological Association APA Documentation from the Writing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"This section provides a quick resource for citing references in papers using the 5th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2001). These materials will introduce you to APA documentation and show you examples which you can use as templates for citing your own references."
Analgesic Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]
Antibiotic Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]
ARCHI
The Australian Resource Centre for Healthcare Innovation (ARCHI) is a knowledge sharing hub for Australian health professionals and health service managers that actively supports the learning process for health professionals involved in clinical service redesign initiatives around Australia.
ARROW Discovery Service
Theses, working papers, technical reports etc from Australian university research repositories.
AustHealth
Australasian Legal Information Institute (AUSTLII)
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Bureau of Statistics - ABS@WA Gov
Australian Department of Health and Ageing National Medicines Policy
Australian Department of Health and Ageing Health Priorities
Australian Drug Information Network (ADIN) [Drug and Alcohol Abuse]
Australian Government Publication Information
Australian Immunisation Handbook (9th edition, 2008)
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook
Australian Medicines Handbook
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry
Australian Society for Medical Research
Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (Katzung)
Behind the Headlines (NHS)
Behind the headlines provides an unbiased and evidence-based analysis of health stories that make the news. The service is intended for both the public and health professionals.
BioMed Central Journals
Original research titles are free access, review titles require a subscription
BMJ Journals Online
Burket's Oral Medicine: Diagnosis and Treatment
Campbell Collaboration
Cannabis in Australia: Use, Supply, Harms and Responses
Cardiovascular Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]
CareSearch
CareSearch is the result of a project funded by the Australian Government to improve the evidence available to palliative care clinical practitioners, researchers and educators nationally.
CARPA Standard Treatment Manual Reference, 4th edition, 2003 (Central Australian Rural Practitioners Association)
Catalogue (Joint Catalogue with other WA Health Services)
Child Health Library
CINAHL with Full Text (Ebsco)
CINCH - the Australian Criminology Database
Produced by the J V Barry Library, CINCH is an index of Australian material on all aspects of crime, criminal justice and criminology in Australia and the region from 1968 onwards. Source documents indexed in the database include journal articles, books and chapters, conference papers and proceedings, research reports, theses, government documents, statistical publications and unpublished materials. Subject coverage includes criminology, corrections, crime prevention, juvenile justice, Indigenous justice, criminal justice law, law enforcement and policing.
Free access available via the Library catalogue link.
Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers 2nd ed 2007 [National Library of Medicine]
Clinical Evidence
Clinical Guidelines and Procedures for the Use of Buprenorphine in the Treatment of Heroin Dependence
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
ComLaw
ComLaw, incorporating the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI) is the legal information retrieval system owned by the Australian Attorney-General's Department.
Consumer and Carer Involvement in Comorbidity Treatment Planning Package
Control of Communicable Diseases Manual
CSL Antivenom Handbook, 2nd edition 2001
Current Critical Care Diagnosis & Treatment (Bongard)
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Cardiology (Crawford)
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Emergency Medicine
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Gastroenterology (Grendell)
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Infectious Disease (Wilson)
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Orthopedics (Skinner)
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Pediatrics (Hay)
Current Diagnosis & Treatment Obstetrics & Gynecology (DeCherney)
Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment (Tierney)
Current Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment (Way)
Curtin University of Technology Referencing Guide
Includes APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA & Vancouver styles
DeGowin’s Diagnostic Examination (DeGowin)
Delmar's Fundamental and Advanced Nursing Skills (Altman)
Delmar's Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests
Dermatology Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]
Developmental Disability Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]
Diabetes Australia - National Evidence Based Guidelines
Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations
DIPEx Database of Individual Patient Experiences - this website has been replaced by HealthTalkOnline and YouthHealthTalk
Directory of Open Access Journals
Download of Psychiatry
DrugPoints® System
Drug Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding [Therapeutic Guidelines]
DSM-IV-TR - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
DUETs (Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments)
Dynamed
DynaMed is a clinical reference tool for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care. DynaMed monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases. It currently contains clinically-organized summaries for around 2,000 topics and is updated daily.
Ebsco CINAHL Plus with Full Text [Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature]
more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. More than 600,000 full-text articles are available, dating back to 1937.
Ebsco Health Business Journal Collection
Ebsco MEDLINE with Full Text
Full-text coverage dating back to 1965 for over 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE.
Ebsco PsycINFO
The American Psychological Association's (APA) database contains over 2.5 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations dating back to the 1800s. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 2,400 periodicals in more than 27 languages.
Ebsco Psychology & Behavioral Science Journal Collection
ECG Learning Center in Cyberspace - Alan E Lindsay Center
ECG Library
Educator's Reference Desk
Embase (Ovid Database)
Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide (Tintinalli)
Emergency Topics [Therapeutic Guidelines]
Endocrinology Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]
ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more tha n 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free.
Evidence Matters
The "Basic Free Version" allows clinicians to compare therapies for their patients based on peer-reviewed medical research. Provides answers to clinical questions from a simple "ask-a-question" interface, with results organised into summary graphs or tables, based on therapy effectiveness, safety and cost. Evidence Matters currently covers cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, gynaecology, neurology, oncology, orthopaedics, paediatrics and urology.
Eye Emergency Manual: an Illustrated Guide (NSW Health)
Family Medicine: Principles and Practice (Taylor)
Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology
Foundations of Nursing Research
Free Books 4 Doctors
Free Medical Journals
Fremantle Hospital Medical Research Foundation
Gastrointestinal Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]
Geriatric Medicine, an Evidence Based Approach
Global Index Medicus (World Health Organization)
Index to African, Carribean, Eastern Mediterranean, Latin American and South East Asian journal articles
Goodman & Gilman’s: Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
Google
GoogleScholar
GovPubs
Australian Government Publications Guide is a guide to selected types of Australian government publications, such as Acts, Hansards, Gazettes and Parliamentary Papers, located in Australia's National, State and Territory libraries or available on the Internet.
Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
Questionnaires, index measures, rating scales, vignettes, tests in health and psychosocial sciences.
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (Access Medicine)
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (STAT!Ref)
Harvard Style Examples from Monash University Library
Health Business Journal Collection (Ebsco)
Health News Review
"HealthNewsReview.org is an attempt to help improve the accuracy, balance and completeness of news stories that make claims about new ideas in health care."
HealthInsite
HealthTalkOnline
HighWire Press Journals
HIRS
Hitting the Headlines Archive
An analysis of the evidence behind selected health stories reported in national newspapers. Summaries of news stories are posted within 48 hours of newspaper publication to ensure that health professionals and the public are better informed about the accuracy of reporting of research in the press. The service ended on 31st March 2008 and provision of the searchable archive will be reviewed after 6 months.
Hursts the Heart (Fuster)
Illicit Drug Use in Australia: Epidemiology, Use Patterns, and Associated Harms, 2nd edition
Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10)
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Intermid
Internurse
Intute Health & Life Sciences
Joanna Briggs Institute
Journals A - Z
Journals Available - Links into Particular Packages, ScienceDirect, BMJ etc
Journal Contents Pages
Journal Watch (Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford)
"Journal Watch is written by Dr Richard Lehman and is a lighthearted review of the leading medical journals from a GP perspective. It is updated weekly."
LactMed
Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed) is a peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.
List of Serials Indexed for Online Users
Useful for findingr journal title abbreviations or the full title where you only know the abbreviated title.
Map of Medicine Healthguides (UK)
Management of Patients with Psychostimulant Toxicity: Guidelines for Ambulance Services
Management of Patients with Psychostimulant Toxicity: Guidelines for Emergency Departments
Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference
Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Care
MedCalc 3000 Medical Reference and Decision Support Tools
MedCalc 3000 encompasses a wide range of medical formulae, calculators, conversion tools, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools commonly used by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and students. Tools include:
Media Doctor (Australia)
"Media Doctor is a website dedicated to improving the accuracy of media reports about new medical treatments. Media Doctor reviews current news items about medical treatments, assesses their quality using a standardised rating scale and presents reviews of good and bad examples of reports on this website. It is anticipated that these independent and objective critiques will improve journalistic practices in reporting new medications and treatments in Australia."
Media Doctor (Canada)
The Canadian site has the same objectives as the Australian site.
Media Portal
Medical & Health Research Infrastructure Council Western Australia
MEDLINE with Full Text (Ebsco)
Full-text coverage dating back to 1965 for 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE.
MedlinePlus
Multicultural Mental Health Australia (MMHA)
Provides national leadership in building greater awareness of mental health and suicide prevention amongst Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy
Merck Manual of Geriatrics
Merck Manuals
Micromedex
Drugs, Poisoning and Toxicology information.
MIMS Online
MIMS Online Tutorial
National Academies Press
(more than 2,500 books online free)
National Alcohol Strategy, 2006-2009
National Cannabis Strategy, 2006-2009
National Cancer Institute [NIH Institutes of Health]
National Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Drug Use During Pregnancy, Birth and the Early Development Years of the Newborn
National Drug Strategy: Australia’s Integrated Framework, 2004-2009
National Guidelines for Organ and Tissue Donation / Australasian Transplant Coordinators Association Incorporated 3rd Edition 2006
National Health & Medical Research Council (NH&MRC)
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Select from over 100 searchable NLM databases and electronic resources
National Library of Medicine Gateway
Resources available to search through the Gateway
National Prescribing Service (Australia)
National Prescribing Service (NPS) is a member-based organisation providing accurate, balanced, evidence-based information and services to health professionals and the community on Quality Use of Medicines (QUM).
National Public Health Partnership
National Tobacco Strategy 2004-2009: the Strategy
Neonatology: Management, Procedures, On-Call Problems, Diseases and Drugs
Neurology Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]
NH&MRC
NHS Direct
NHS Evidence
A meta-search of authoritative clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practices from the UK NHS.
NSW Speech Pathology EBP Network
NICE
OECD Health Data 2009
This database covers a wide range of policy relevant topics, from population health status and non-medical determinants of health to health care resources and their utilisation. Data are also collected on health insurance coverage and on health care within overall social protection systems.
OmniMedicalSearch
OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories
A fully searchable global directory of freely available open access repositories containing research material.
Oral and Dental Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]
OTseeker
Ovid Embase
Oxford Medical Journals Collection
Oxford Textbook of Medicine
Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy (Gabbard)
Paediatric Pharmacopoeia [Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne]
Palliative Care Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]
Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and their Families
PEDro
Primal Pictures (Anatomy.tv)
A dynamic interactive multi-media overview of human anatomy - from head to toe! This interactive resource contains than 20 learning and teaching modules covering basic human anatomy and focusing on one or more areas of the body. Also includes a study guide and test bank.
Primary Preventive Dentistry
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health
Psychology Related Electronic Journals and Periodicals
Psychotropic Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]
PsycLine, Your Guide to Psychology and Social Science Journals on the Web
PubList: The Internet Directory of Publications
PubMed (Medline)
[US National Library of Medicine]
PubMed Bookshelf
PubMed Central Journals
PubMed Central UK
Raine Medical Research Foundation
RCPA Manual see Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Manual
Red Book: Report of the Committee on Infectious Disease
RehabData
US National Rehabilitation Information Center's online gateway to an abundance of disability- and rehabilitation-oriented information organized in a variety of formats designed to make it easy for users to find and use
Respiratory Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]
Review of General Psychiatry (Goldman)
PsycINFO (Ebsco)
Psychology & Behavioral Science Journal Collection (Ebsco)
Review of Medical Physiology (Ganong)
Review of Natural Products
Rheumatology Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]
Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Manual
Rudolph's Pediatrics
SAI Global Standards Australia
Use the Department of Health link to access the full text of Australia standards. Please note that the Department has a single user license for all of Health so it is important to log out once you have finished using the site.
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits
Schwartz's Principles of Surgery
Science Direct Journals (selected titles)
Science.Komm Internet Directory to Medical Journals
Scirus
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)
Smith’s General Urology (Tanagho)
Stedman’s Medical Dictionary
Stockley's Drug Interactions
Street Drug Slang Dictionary
The Indiana Prevention Resource Center on-line dictionary contains more than 3,800 street drug slang terms from the Indiana Prevention Resource Center files, with more than 1,200 additions from the National Drug and Crime Clearinghouse slang term list.
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
Therapeutic Exercise: Foundations and Techniques
Therapeutic Goods Administration Clinical Guidelines
Therapeutic Guidelines
Includes: Analgesic, Antibiotic, Cardiovascular, Dermatology, Endocrinology, Gastrointestinal, Neurology, Palliative Care, Psychotropic, Respiratory, Rheumatology, Drug use in pregnancy and breastfeeding, Developmental Disability
Therapeutic Modalities in Rehabilitation
Toxnet
US National Library of Medicine databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.
Trauma (Moore)
TRIP Database [Turning Research Into Practice in Primary Care]
The TRIP Database is a meta-search engine that searches across 61 sites of high-quality medical information. By searching the TRIP Database you have direct, hyperlinked access to the largest collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web as well as articles from premier on-line journals such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM etc
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (AKA the Vancouver style)
US National Guideline Clearinghouse
USP DI: Vol I, Drug Information for the Health Care Professional
WA Aboriginal Health Strategy
WA Biomedical Research Institute
WA Mental Health Policy and Strategic Plan 2010 - 2020
WA State Law Publisher
From 1 July 2004, free online access is available for all legislation, regulations, gazettes, etc.
Western Australian Institute for Medical Research
Western Australian Medication Safety Group (WAMSG)
Operational Circulars and Directives, Safety Alerts and Patient Information.
Western Australian Psychotropic Drugs Committee (WAPDC) Guidelines and Information
Guidelines on drug treatment for anxiety disorders, antipsychotic drugs, etc.
Western Australian Therapeutics Advisory Group (WATAG)
Advisory Notes, Antibiotic Use Evaluation Reports, Clinical Guidelines and Operational Circulars and Directives.
Williams Obstetrics
Women and Newborn Health Library
Women's Health: A Primary Care Clincal Guide
World Wide Information on Serials in Health (WWISH List)
Maintained at Hunter Health. Includes a list of free titles - click on E-Journals link from the Quick Links Section.
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