PubMed Health - new database of Systematic Reviews added to our Collections

About PubMed Health:

PubMed Health provides information for consumers and clinicians on prevention and treatment of diseases and conditions.

PubMed Health specializes in reviews of clinical effectiveness research, with easy-to-read summaries for consumers as well as full technical reports. Clinical effectiveness research finds answers to the question “What works?” in medical and health care.

PubMed Health Information:

PubMed Health is based on systematic reviews of clinical trials. These clinical effectiveness reviews can show what treatments and prevention methods have been proven to work—and what remains unknown.

PubMed Health provides summaries and full texts of selected systematic reviews in one place. The reviews were generally published or updated from 2003. There is also information for consumers and clinicians based on those reviews.

A search on PubMed Health runs simultaneously in PubMed. A filter is used to identify all the indexed scientific articles at the NLM that might be systematic reviews. This search includes articles from before 2003.

PubMed Health is a service provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Click here to link to PubMed Health in the Library Catalogue

Embase - new filters

Next Embase release on 15 December 2013

• Embase will launch FIVE new text filters; 'Author names', 'Medical Devices', 'Conferences', 'Age groups', 'Subheadings' and THREE new graphical filters; 'Sources', 'Gender', 'Age Groups'. Click here to view new filters

• A 'much requested by users' Quick Search box will be added to the top of the session results page with the same autocomplete functionality found in the Quick Search form.

• Autocomplete, found in the Quick Search form and soon also at the top of the Session Results page, will now allow you to match multiple terms to Emtree. Previously, only your first term was completed using automated Emtree suggestions.

• Trainers and creators of Embase materials please note: The Search Forms will change and this may require some adjustment of your materials.

To access Embase database from the library catalogue click here

UpToDate - Resource for Clinicians

Clinical Answers at the Point of Care — Anytime, Anywhere

UpToDate^® is an essential resource for hundreds of thousands of physicians and healthcare practitioners, serving as a trusted medical "colleague" that provides unbiased, evidence-based medical information at the point of care. Accessed more than 18 million times each month.

UpToDate may be accessed through The James Hardiman Library and it provides a
What's New service which covers the following topics:

Practice Changing UpDates

What's new in adult and pediatric emergency medicine

What's new in allergy and immunology

What's new in cardiovascular medicine

What's new in dermatology

What's new in drug therapy

What's new in endocrinology and diabetes mellitus

What's new in family medicine

What's new in gastroenterology and hepatology

What's new in general surgery

What's new in geriatrics

What's new in hematology

What's new in hospital medicine

What's new in infectious diseases

What's new in nephrology and hypertension

What's new in neurology

What's new in obstetrics and gynecology

What's new in oncology

What's new in pediatrics

What's new in primary care internal medicine

What's new in psychiatry

What's new in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine

What's new in rheumatology

Cochrane and Wikipedia collaborate

Over the past year, Wikipedians and Cochranites have ventured to amalgamate the strengths of Wikipedia's successful community-driven model and global reach with Cochrane's reputation for methodological rigour. The aims are to improve the evidence-related content in Wikipedia articles, to provide resources or assistance to Wikipedia editors interpreting scientific data, and to encourage academics and scientists to add evidence to Wikipedia articles.

From Cochrane's perspective, the benefits to underpinning medical articles in Wikipedia with Cochrane evidence include:

• Increasing the number of citations to Cochrane evidence in Wikipedia
• Increasing the uptake of Cochrane evidence
• Increasing the relevance of Cochrane evidence
• Increasing interactive learning
• Harnessing the power of crowdsourcing
• Rapid dissemination of critical information

To view the full article in the Cochrane Library click on the article title below

Cochrane and Wikipedia: The collaborative potential for a quantum leap in the dissemination and uptake of trusted evidence by Manu Mathew, Anna Joseph, James Heilman & Prathap Tharyan

New interface to Embase launched

Changes have been made to the top level navigation so new users will find it easier to become familiar with finding their way around Embase and current users have more space for searching and viewing results.

Embase's biomedical database has over 25 million indexed records from thousands of peer-reviewed journals.  It enables you to track and retrieve precise information on drugs and diseases from pre-clinical studies to searches on critical toxicological information.

Click here to view the new changes

Click here to access Embase from the library catalogue