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Key Health & Social Care Databases
Health Databases Advanced Search (HDAS) has been decommissioned. Alternative search platforms are listed below.
AMED |
It covers a selection of journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, and several professions allied to medicine. |
Search at OVID (OpenAthens required) |
BNI |
Comprehensive index covering all aspects of nursing, midwifery and community healthcare. |
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CINAHL ULTIMATE |
Covers all aspects of nursing and allied health disciplines. |
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EMBASE |
A major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals. |
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EMCARE |
A nursing and allied health bibliographic database published by Elsevier. |
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MEDLINE ULTIMATE |
A general medical database produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. |
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PSYCINFO |
Provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines |
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PUBMED |
Comprises over 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE |
Search at PubMed |
HMIC |
Brings together the bibliographic database of the Department of Health's Library and Information Services (DH-Data) and King’s Fund Information and Library Service. |
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COCHRANE LIBRARY |
Premier resource for information on the effectiveness of healthcare interventions. You should search the Cochrane Library when you are looking for information about the effectiveness of treatments and healthcare interventions |
Search at Cochrane Library |
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Other Core Resources
BioMed Central - A pioneer of open access publishing, BMC has an evolving portfolio of high quality peer-reviewed journals
UpToDate: provides an overview of a topic and so is useful for general search questions, e.g. “Can you find me all the evidence on the diagnosis and treatment of disc herniation?”
Clinical Knowledge Summaries - Over 370 topics organised alphabetically, with focus on the most common and significant presentations in primary care.
NICE Guidance - Evidence-based recommendations developed by independent committees, including professionals and lay members, and consulted on by stakeholders.
