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Office of Clinical Performance and Health Impact

Clinical Library Resources

PUBMED DATABASES

PubMed

PubMed Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  comprises more than 39 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online boos. Many citations have links to full text journals that are open access from publishers and free.

PubMed Central

PubMed Central (PMC) Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  is free, full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences literature.

PubMed Clinical Queries

Pubmed search tip: save time by limiting your initial search to Etiology, Diagnosis, Therapy, Prognosis, Clinical prediction guides, or Systematic Reviews Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov .

PubMed Single Citation Matcher

Quickly get to the full text of that one specific article you need by entering the citation information Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov .

GUIDELINES

CHEMM (Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management)

CHEMM Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  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 Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  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™ Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents, updated weekly.

NICE Pathways

NICE Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov , an 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.

CLINCAL RESEARCH RESOURCES

ClinicalTrials.gov

ClinicalTrials.gov Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.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.

Trip

Trip Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  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.

Medscape Reference

Medscape Reference Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  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

The online website of the Merck Manual Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  includes clinical calculators, conversion tables, a table of drug trade and generic names, and normal laboratory values.

DRUG INFORMATION

FDA Drugs: Information for Healthcare Professionals

From the top right menu, use the main links to visit various sections of FDA Drugs Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov : Drug Recalls, Drug Shortages, Drug Safety Communications, Medication Errors, and more.

LactMed (Drug and Lactation Database)

Residing within TOXNET, LactMed Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  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®Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  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 Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  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 Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  offers concise drug summary monographs and FDA Drug Communications of warnings, recalls, and approvals.

SYSTEMIC REVIEWS/META ANALYSIS

Cochrane Library

Cochrane Library Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  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 the NHS Economic Evaluation Database.