By Rebecca | Published:
May 18, 2009
UIC Library has subscribed to two new resources, one geared towards nursing while the other one is a point-of-care tool. Both resources will be added to the Research Guides.
DynaMed is a clinical tool that provides “clinically organized” summaries for 3,000 disease and condition topics. It is updated daily. It also includes over 800 topic summaries [...]
By Rebecca | Published:
March 23, 2009
UIC Library has a new subscription to the Joanna Briggs Institute database, JBI COnNECT. This database provides evidence-based resources for making clinical decisions. JBI COnNECT is made up of a series of speciality ‘nodes’ such as Aged Care, Infection Control, or Midwifery. Users can search through each node separately or search through the entire [...]
By Rebecca | Published:
March 2, 2009
Need to know Medicaid benefits for Illinois or another state? The Kaiser Family Foundation has a free database of Medicaid benefits by state. The data is from 2003, 2004, and 2006. It includes what is covered, limits, co-payments and reimbursement methodologies for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Territories like [...]
By Rebecca | Published:
January 26, 2009
Looking for information on breast cancer risk? Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Silent Spring Institute’s Environmental Factors and Breast Cancer Science Review have collaborated on two databases about breast cancer risk. The first database, Epidemiology Reviews Database, has reviews of approximately 450 articles reporting on human breast cancer studies. The other database, [...]
By Rebecca | Published:
December 19, 2008
ETHXWeb is a free database created and maintained by Georgetown University’s National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature. It has journal and news articles, book chapters, and laws related to bioethics and professional ethics. ETHXWeb will have citations that CINAHL and PubMed will not have and give you a different perspective.
Another free database, GenETHX, has citations [...]
By Rebecca | Published:
December 15, 2008
Looking for another resource to use when doing research on minorities? Try the Minority Health Archive. This free database of almost 1,000 records has citations of journal articles, books, book chapters, and government documents on the following minority groups: Blacks/African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders. This resource was created as a [...]
By Rebecca | Published:
November 5, 2008
Want to know how a particular drug’s effect on a breastfeeding mother and her baby? LactMed (Drugs and Lactation Database) is a free, peer reviewed database from the National Library of Medicine that includes information on levels of various drugs and chemicals effects on breast milk and the baby. The database may also recommend alternate [...]
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