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Databases for Medicine
African Index Medicus
http://indexmedicus.afro.who.int/
  
Focuses on sources not indexed in MEDLINE, including books, theses, and agency reports. From the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) with the technical support of the World Health Organization [more]

Annual Reviews Online Index
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/search/advanced
  
Search by article title through the following Annual Reviews books 1984-date: Anthropology, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure, Cell Developmental Biology, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Energy and the Environment, Fluid Mechanics, Genetics, Immunology, Materials Science, Medicine, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Nuclear and Particle Science, Nutrition, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physical Chemistry, Physiology, Phytopathology, Plant Physiology, Psychology, Public Health, and Sociology.

Authoratory
http://www.authoratory.com
  
Locate experts in various domains, or search for a particular author and view tables outlining their publications, grant funding, and more. The database was created by datamining PubMed. Registration is required to view some of the data, and is free for academic, noncommercial, and personal use. [more]

BMC Proceedings
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcproc/
  
Devoted specifically to conference publications in medicine and biology, BioMed Central aims to provide open access to both abstracts and complete articles presented at conferences. [more]

Canadian Medical Association CPG Infobase
http://mdm.ca/cpgsnew/cpgs/index.asp
  
Over 300 Clinical Practice Guidelines designed to help physicians and patients make appropriate health care decisions in specific clinical circumstances. They have been developed or reviewed with a five-year rolling date, and produced or endorsed in Canada by a national, provincial or territorial medical or health organization, professional society, government agency or expert panel. [more]

CenterWatch Clinical Trials
http://www.centerwatch.com/
  
An international listing of over 2100 clinical trials, searchable by medical specialty and geographic region. Also contains information about drugs newly approved by the FDA.

ClinicalTrials.gov
http://clinicaltrials.gov
  
A Sponsored by NIH and the National Library of Medicine, this site allows patients and health care providers to search for clinical trials by name of trial location, disease or condition, age group and treatment. [more]

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (EBM Reviews) Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration. The reviews are presented in two types: includes both completed reviews and protocols for reviews in progress. EBM Reviews is integrated with Ovid MEDLINE. When browsing MEDLINE results, click on "Topic Review" to see the related Cochrane review. [more]

CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)
http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/
  
Search federally funded biomedical research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMSHA), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), Agency for Health Care Policy Research (AHCPR), and Office of Assistant Secretary of Health (OASH). [more]

DARE - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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A collection of high quality systematic research reviews of the effectiveness of health care interventions in the areas of diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening and treatment. This database is fully integrated with MEDLINE so that articles which have been reviewed for DARE will contain an additional link: Article Review. Since a new limit, "EBM Reviews", has been added to MEDLINE, often the best way to search DARE is from MEDLINE. But connecting directly to EBM Reviews: DARE permits targeting particular kinds of studies, e.g. therapeutics, diagnosis, etiology, etc; or searching the complete text of each article review, including references, caption and footnotes. [more]

Department of Defense Biomedical Research Database
http://brd.dtic.mil/
  
Indexes Department of Defense funded research, testing and training programs in infectious diseases, biohazards, toxicology, medical chemical defense and related topics. [more]

DISEASEDEX Emergency Medicine Available only from within the Health Sciences Library.
http://www.thomsonhc.com
  
Provides guidelines for treatment in acute care settings. Specific for emergency and critical care medicine. Formerly EMERGINDEX. [more]

EBM Reviews - ACP Journal Club Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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The complete text of ACP Journal Club (1991-date) and BMJ's Evidence Based Medicine (1995-1999), which contain reviews of the most methodologically sound, clinically relevant articles from the top internal medicine, pediatric, ob/gyn, ophthalmology, psychiatry, and surgery journals. This database is fully integrated with MEDLINE so that articles which have been reviewed for these sources will contain an additional link: Article Review. Since a new limit, "EBM Reviews", has been added to MEDLINE, often the best way to search for these reviews is from MEDLINE. But connecting directly to EBM Reviews: ACP Journal Club permits targeting particular kinds of studies,e.g. therapeutics, diagnosis, etiology, etc; or searching the complete text of each article review, including references, captions and footnotes. EBM Reviews: ACP Journal Club is also fully integrated with the Ovid full text collections, meaning it is often possible to view the complete text of the primary article b [more]

EBM Reviews - Cochrane Controlled Trials Register Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Contains over 300,000 bibliographic references to controlled trials in health care which have been identified in MEDLINE and EMBASE and hand searches by members of the Cochrane Collaboration. Over 4000 of the trials included were published prior to 1966, and therefore would not be found in MEDLINE. [more]

Evidence Updates
http://plus.mcmaster.ca/evidenceupdates
  
A searchable database of the best evidence from 110 premier clinical journals. A network of clinicians evaluates methodologically sound articles for clinical relevance and newsworthiness. Only articles that have been favorably evaluated by at least 3 clinicians are included. Users can also receive either daily or weekly email updates.

HCUPnet
http://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/
  
An interactive tool for identifying, analyzing and comparing statistics on hospital inpatient care. Uses the data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) of over 1000 hospitals. Also includes data from the State Inpatient Database (SID), representing inpatient care in community hospitals in 36 states (including Missouri), which represents more than half of all U.S. hospital discharges. Create and export tables on costs, demographics, mortality, length of stay, and insurance coverage for diseases or medical procedures. From the U.S. Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. [more]

HSTAT (AHCPR Supported Guidelines)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat
  
Lists the entire text of clinical practice guidelines developed by U.S. government entities such as the Agency for Health Care Policy Research and the National Institutes of Health.

Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region
http://www.who.int/library/databases/emro/en/index.html
  
The MEDLINE for medical journals published in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, including the countries of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, The Occupied Territories, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, U.A.E., and Yemen Arab Republic. Indexed with MeSH Medical Subject Headings in English and Arabic. From the World Health Organization.

IndMED
http://indmed.nic.in/
  
Search 75 prominent Indian medical journals, most of which are not included in MEDLINE. All articles are indexed with MeSH headings. Maintained by the Indian Medlars Centre. [more]

LILACS Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://bases.bireme.br/cgi-bin/wxislind.exe/iah/online/?IsisScript=iah/iah.xis&base=LILACS&lang=I
  
The Latin American equivalent of MEDLINE, covering 669 journals in Portuguese, Spanish & English. Although the majority of articles indexed are in Portuguese or Spanish, it's possible to search using English keywords. [more]

Literature Arts and Medicine Database Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Search?action=startann
  
An database of prose, poetry, film and art works dealing with health and medicine. Searchable by medium, author/creator, title, era, and subject.

LOCATORplus
http://locatorplus.gov/
  
Search the library collection of the National Library of Medicine. [more]

MEDLINE (Ovid) Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Citations and abstracts to worldwide biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services. MEDLINE references articles from about 4000 journals published in 70 countries. Evidence-based search filters are available to assist in narrowing results to methodologically rigorous articles. To run a cited reference search on an article found in MEDLINE,copy and paste the PMID article Identifier here. [more]

MICROMEDEX Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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A variety of databases covering topics such as medicine, drugs, alternative and complementary medicine, patient education and occupational health. Search multiple Micromedex databases via the Integrated Index (http://micromedex.umh.edu ) feature or search individual databases. [more]

Native Health Research Database
http://hsc.unm.edu/library/nhd/
  
Indexes health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. Can search by tribe, state, region/province in addition to MeSH subject searches. Older literature (back to 1652) can be found in the Native Health History Database. [more]

NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/index.jsp?action=byTopic
  
From the National Health Service of England and Wales. Clinical practice guidelines, technology and interventional procedure appraisals on a variety of subjects.

NTIS Database Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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A catalog of publications from the U.S. National Technical Information Service. The premier resource for locating U.S. Government sponsored research reports and studies in the physical sciences, technology, engineering, biological sciences, medicine and health sciences, agriculture and social sciences. Various classification systems enhance subject retrieval. Material can also be searched by corporate source, patent number and CAS registry number. Use the ORDER button to request the corresponding fulltext documents. [more]

OvidSP Medical Search Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Click on the BASIC tab and type in a question or topic to see about the most relevant results in MEDLINE, CINAHL, Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews, PsycINFO, and Journals@Ovid. [more]

PreMEDLINE Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Also Known as: MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations
Provides basic citation information (no abstracts or MeSH indexing terms) for articles currently in the process of being indexed for MEDLINE. Also includes PubMed-only citations which will never be added to MEDLINE on bioethics, population studies, biotechnology, health technology, and health services management. Formerly known as PreMEDLINE. [more]

PubMed Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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The National Library of Medicine's free article search engine, containing article references from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, plus some publisher-supplied and out of scope citations from certain general science and chemistry journals, such as Science and Nature. MU users have enhanced MEDLINE search capabilities available to them in Ovid MEDLINE. MeSH subject indexing is not available for very new citations or for citations older than 1966. To run a cited reference search on an article found in PubMed, copy and paste the PMID article Identifier here. [more]

Scopus Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Search 33 million journal articles, cited references, and patents. Cover-to-cover indexing 1996-date for 14,000 (mostly scientific) journals, with some retrospective coverage compiled from cited references and free web sources. Compile a table of citation counts for a given author showing cited references by year. Discover the h-index for a given author. Search for all cited references for a given author, just a combination of selected references, or a single reference, with an option to exclude self-citations. Locate an article to see Findit@Mu links to all its cited references. [more]

UK National Electronic Library for Health NeLH Guidelines Finder
http://www.library.nhs.uk/guidelinesFinder/
  
From the United Kingdon National Health Service. Search over 600 UK national guidelines, often with links to the complete text. Developed in collaboration with SEEK, the Sheffield Evidence for Effectiveness and Knowledge.

Journals

Journals for Medicine
Browse Journals on Medicine Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Other Resources Online

Other Resources Online for Medicine
Adam.com Medical Encyclopedia
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html
  
Browse or search for symptoms in this encyclopedia available via MEDLINEplus.

AHRQ Web M&M: Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web
http://www.webmm.ahrq.gov/
  
A forum on patient safety, featuring expert analyses of anonymously submitted medical errors, and interactive learning modules on patient safety. From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

AIM DocFinder
http://www.docboard.org/docfinder.html
  
Search a doctor's name for any disciplinary information provided by medical boards in over 20 states. Missouri is not included, although there is a link to the Missouri State Board for the Healing Arts Licensee Database. AIM DocFinder is provided by the Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors.

AMA Doctor Finder
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A directory of virtually every licensed physician in the United States. Search the 650,000+ entries by name and medical specialty.

American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS): Who's Certified
https://www.abms.org/WC/login.aspx
  

Also Known as: abms ; american board of medical specialties
Verify the physician certification status by one or more of the 24 ABMS member boards, or obtain a list of board certified specialists in a given state or city. Free registration required. Additional biographical details and contact information on the listed specialists is available from the print directory shelved behind the information desk in the Health Sciences Library.

ARGH Biomedical Acronym/Abbreviation Database
http://invention.swmed.edu/argh/
  
Enter an acronym to see what it stands for, and how it has been used in context in MEDLINE titles and abstracts. Generated automatically from the MEDLINE database using a computer algorithm called Acronym Resolving General Heuristics (ARGH), it contains over 200,000 unique acronyms.

Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
http://www.aamc.org/
  
Provides information on medical education, research, and health care. A directory of medical schools and medical school admissions offices in included.

Boone Hospital Center/BJC Physician Referral Database
http://webserver01.bjc.org/sfnet/BJC_PhysicianSearch.asp
  
Search for physicians in the BJC referral network (including Boone Hospital Center) by name, specialty, insurance, location, age or gender.

Clinical Cases and Images: A Case-Based Curriculum of Clinical Medicine
http://clinicalcases.blogspot.com/
  
Presents clinical cases, procedure videos, diagnostic images, and answers to clinical questions, all designed to bridge the gap between textbooks and real life in the clinic and on the ward. Created by Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University. Presented in blog/RSS format. Site content can be translated into 9 languages, including Arabic, Russian, and Chinese.

Clinical xPert Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Also Known as: PDR - Physicians Desk Reference
A point-of-care tool from MicroMedex. Click on the Disease, Labs, Calculators, or Drugs tabs for concise, action-oriented evidence-based information from DiseaseDex, DrugDex, and more. Unique Clinical Checklists ("Always do/Never do") are often included to guide patient management. A handheld version is freely available to MU HealthCare employees.

Cochrane Collaboration Consumer Network
http://www.cochrane.org/consumers/homepage.htm
  
Includes summaries of Cochrane reviews written for patients.

Congress Resource Centre (CRC): Doctor's Guide Global Edition
http://www.docguide.com/crc.nsf/web-bySpec
  
Access information about medical conferences and meeting events in 83 countries searchable by medical specialty, location, and date.

Current Bibliographies in Medicine
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Provided by the National Library of Medicine. Each bibliography covers a distinct subject area of biomedicine of current popular interest. Available online back to 1992.

DailyMed
http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/about.cfm
  

Drug Information Portal from the National Library of Medicine
http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/drugportal.jsp
  
[more]

Epocrates Online
http://www.epocrates.com/products/online/?cid=EOL08
  
Concise information on diseases and drugs. Drug interaction checker, formularies, and images are available with optional free registration.

Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://www.fsmb.org/
  
The FSMB is compsed of 69 member boards one being the Missouri Board of Healng Arts . The FSMB promotes high standards for physician licensure and practice and also produces USMLE .

Free Medical Podcasts
http://FreeMedicalPodcasts.com
  

Also Known as: freemedicalpodcasts
Links to MP3s and transcripts (where available) for leading medical and scientific journals, and leading medical organizations such as the FDA, the Center for Disease Control, the American Heart Association, and more. Sign up for their mailing list to receive alerts. [more]

Hardin MD Meta Directory of Medical and Disease Pictures
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Links to medical pictures on the web arranged by disease and medical specialty.

History of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine
http://library.muhealth.org/docs/history/historyschoolofmedicine.htm
  
A Selected List of Sources in MU Libraries

JAMA article collection: The Rational Clinical Examination Series Available only from within the Health Sciences Library.
http://www.emory.edu/whscl/grady/inetgrp/ratclin.html
  
List each article in this ongoing series in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. Each article attempts to marshal the best available evidence about the clinical significance of signs commonly observed on physical examination. From Grady Branch Library and Emory Hospital Library of the Health Sciences Library, Emory University School of Medicine.

MedEDPORTAL
http://services.aamc.org/jsp/mededportal/goLinkPage.do;jsessionid=6406812C66506D96D9BC0A6DFE57A0AE?link=home
  
Hundreds of faculty-developed, peer reviewed resources to support medical education. From the Association of American Medical Colleges. Free registration required.

Medical Breakthroughs reported by Ivanhoe Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
https://search.ivanhoe.com/home/p_home.cfm
  
19 channels of medical news, updated daily. News stories from the last week are free; a fee-based alerting service is available as is fee-based access to the 50,000 stories archived since 1995.

Medical Mnemonics
http://medicalmnemonics.com
  
A free, non-profit, searchable database of over 1000 memory aids to help students memorize anatomical, biochemical and clinical concepts. Palm and AvantGo PDA versions also available. [more]

Medical Register for the United Kingdom
http://www.gmc-uk.org/register/search/index.asp
  

Also Known as: London Medical Register; UK Medical Register; Great Britain Medical Register

MEDLINE Evidence Based Search Filters
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Use these links to target methodologically sound, evidence-based journal articles in MEDLINE. Choose from therapeutics, diagnosis, etiology or prognosis; then combine the result with the subject of interest. [more]

National Library of Medicine Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://www.nlm.nih.gov
  
As one of the largest subject collections of any kind in the world, the National Library of Medicine provides leadership in indexing, cataloging and providing medical literature for health professionals and health consumers through such services as MEDLINE/Pubmed, MedlinePlus, LocatorPlus, clinicaltrials.gov, and many others. Part of the National Institutes of Health.

NationMaster
http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
  
Search, compare, and graph statistics for a country or region of the world. Includes many health statistics compiled from the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF, OECD, and more.

New Cochrane Reviews
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New and newly revised systematic reviews from the most recent quarterly update to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

POEMs
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Collected reviews from the Journal of Family Practice Journal Club. Each month, the JFP Journal Club applies the principles of evidence-based medicine to select 8 of the most clinically applicable articles from over 90 journals in every clinical specialty.

Professional Registration Licensee Search - Missouri State Board for the Healing Arts
https://renew.pr.mo.gov/licensee-search.asp
  
Searchable directory of licensed professionals including medical physicians & surgeons, physical therapists and occupational therapists among others. Search by county, profession, name and/or license number. Includes information on license and discplinary status.

PubMed Clinical Q&A
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=ebm
  

Also Known as: Pubmed Clinical Q & A; Pubmed clinical questions & answers

Science Gateway Rankings
http://www.sciencegateway.org/rank/index.html
  
Although there's a 2+ year time lag, this site provides a snapshot of rankings of top journals, institutions, authors, and countries in various disciplines. Rankings are based on ISI's journal impact factor.

Self Care Flowcharts
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/tools/symptom.html
  
These flowcharts from the American Academy of Family Physicians guide patients and healthcare consumers through common medical problems such as headache, fever, nausea etc.

StateMaster
http://www.statemaster.com/index.php
  
Search, compare, and graph statistics for a state or region of the United States. Statistics are compiled from many sources, such as the US Census Bureau, the FBI, and the National Center for Educational Statistics. Many health statistics are included.

Test Prep Review
http://www.testprepreview.com/
  
Free practice tests from a nonprofit group of educators. Choose from MCAT, USMLE, NCLEX and other nursing exams and many more.

USMLE United States Medical Licensing Examination
http://www.usmle.org
  
Contains tutorials and practice sessions for the three testing areas, as well as information on application materials and testing accomodations and schedules. There are also downloads which simulate the computer-based testing format.

Who Named It?
http://www.whonamedit.com/index.cfm
  
An encyclopedic dictionary of eponyms. Aims to ultimately provide biographical information on over 15,000 diseases and medical phenomena named after a person; currently contains over 6000 eponyms. Search by eponym, or by name, gender or national origin of the person.

Yahoo subject List of Internet Resources in Health and Medicine Available only from within the Health Sciences Library.
http://dir.yahoo.com/health/
  

eBooks / Books

eBooks / Books for Medicine
AAFP Conditions A to Z Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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AccessMedicine Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Search a collection of over 50 books in clinical medicine and the basic sciences, including Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Hurst's The Heart, and many more. Click on My AccessMedicine to register for a free password which entitles you to use the Lange self-assessment tool for board preparation, PDA chapter downloads, and podcasts. MyNCBI account holders can link to articles and ordering options via Findit@MU. Please logout when finished searching. To locate more recent articles which cite a referenced article, enter the PMID article Identifier here.

ACP Medicine Available only from within the Health Sciences Library.
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Formerly Scientific American Medicine. Contains the full text of the 3-volume loose-leaf of the same name, which covers 15 internal medicine subspecialties. It provides coverage of developments in clinical medicine and is updated quarterly. Coverage includes patient management, clinical diagnosis, basic medical science and drug regimens. To locate more recent articles which cite a referenced article, enter the PMID article Identifier here.

Books@Ovid
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A collection of major medical, nursing and pharmacy reference texts. Titles can be searched individually or as a whole.

Cecil Medicine Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Also Known as: Cecil Textbook of Medicine
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Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers.
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Clinical Evidence Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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A compendium of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions in a variety of medical specialties, from the publishers of the British Medical Journal. Summarizes the current state of knowledge, ignorance, and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of a wide range of clinical conditions based on thorough searches and appraisal of the literature. Updated monthly.

Clinician's Pocket Reference Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Conn's Current Therapy Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Current Consult: Medicine Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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The content of Papadakis & McPhee's Current Consult: Medicine is included under the Quick Access Tab in AccessMedicine.

Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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43rd annual volume emphasizes the practical features of clinical diagnosis and patient management in all fields of internal medicine.

Degowin's Diagnostic Examination Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Within the text, there are descriptions of symptoms and signs, highlighted instructions on how to elicit signs and lists of diseases with which to make a differential diagnosis.

DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Diagnosaurus Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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A differential diagnosis tool from McGraw-Hill and CogniQ, included with Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. [more]

Dorland's Medical Dictionary
http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcommonzSzdorlandszSzdorlandzSzdmd-a-b-000zPzhtm
  

DynaMed Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Provides basic information and summarizes current developments on over 2000 diseases. Designed for use at the point of care. Includes ICD9 codes. MyNCBI account holders can link to articles and ordering options via Findit@MU. [more]

emedicine
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Epocrates MedTools Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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A variety of free add-on programs to accompany ePocrates. Currently includes a tumor staging reference, a bone health assessment tool, dosing calculators, and treatment guides for cholesterol, psychiatry, and hypertension. [more]

Ferri's Clinical Advisor Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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FREIDA
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This is the Directory of Graduate Medical Education programs (commonly known as the "Green Book") online.

Google Book Search
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Although many books can't be viewed online, you can search every word in them using Google Books, then scroll down and click on Find in a Library to locate the book on the shelf at MU Libraries. If no local copy is available, you can click on ILL@MU to borrow the book via interlibrary loan, or "buy this book" and have your purchase benefit MU Libraries. [more]

Guide to Culturally Competent Healthcare Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Much of the information here was synthesized from two printed books, Guide to culturally competent health care and Transcultural Health Care: A culturally competent approach./a>.

Harrison's Manual of Medicine
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A concise companion to Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.

Harrison's OnHand
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A streamlined version of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine optimized for viewing on the PDA. The library's institutional subscription entitles you to a significant discount over the list price. Please contact the Health Sciences Library Information Desk for details on how to purchase a discounted copy. [more]

Harrisons Online Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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The complete text and illustrations of the 16th edition from 2004 of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine textbook, with weekly updates. Drug names are hotlinked to drug information from Clinical Pharmacology. [more]

LANGE Self Assessment Tool Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Click on LANGE Self Assessment tool and complete the free registration form to access 3000 USLME Step 1 and Step 2 sample board exam questions. From USMLEasy.com.

Lexi-Interact Online Drug Interactions Program Available only from within the Health Sciences Library.
https://healthlibrary.missouri.edu/secure/UpToDate/goto_uptodate.cfm
  
A service of UpToDate, provided by the Lexi-Comp company. Enter a list of drugs to identify potential interactions, or list all potential interactions for a given drug or herb. Results can be filtered by level of risk rating if desired. After logging into UpToDate and accepting the license agreement, Click on Launch Lexi-Interact drug interactions program.

Medical Approaches Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://www.medicalapproaches.org/html/members/download/index.htm
  
Developed by some British doctors, this provides a structured approach to common symptoms, clinical states, and emergencies. PDA versions are available; free registration required.

mediLexicon Medical Abbreviations Directionary Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://www.medilexicon.com/medicalabbreviations.php
  
Search over 200,000 medical abbreviations and their definitions.

Murray and Nadel's: Textbook of Respiratory Medicine Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Osler Medical Handbook Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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PIER Physician Information and Education Resource Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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An evidence based decision support tool from the American College of Physicians. The level of evidence is clearly indicated for all recommendations. Please logout when finished searching. MyNCBI account holders can link to articles and ordering options via Findit@MU. To locate more recent articles which cite a referenced article, enter the PMID article Identifier here.

Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Primary Care Medicine ( Goroll ) Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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The complete text of Goroll et al: Primary Care Medicine: Office Evaluation and Management of the Adult Patient, 5th Edition.

STAT!-REF Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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A library of textbooks and drug compendia. Drug information, psychiatry, and obstetrics are especially well represented. Includes STAT!-Study, a collection of multiple choice questions in physiology and toxicology for self-study and Board preparation. MyNCBI account holders can link to articles and ordering options via Findit@MU. [more]

UCSF Hospitalist Handbook
http://www.meistermed.com/isilodepot/isilodocs/isilodoc_s_ucsf_hospitalist_handbook.htm
  
[more]

UpToDate Available only from within the Health Sciences Library.
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Aims to provide instantaneous, evidence-based answers to the most commonly asked clinical questions. Over 270 journals and other sources are regularly scanned and synthesized into topic reviews designed to provide current answers to clinical questions. Overall, these original topic reviews consist of over 40,000 pages of text and over 10,000 graphics covering the following areas: Internal Medicine, Adult Primary Care, Cardiology, Drug Information, Endocrinology & Diabetes, Family Practice, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Gynecology, Hematology, Infectious Diseases, Nephrology & Hypertension, Neurology, Obstetrics, Oncology, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Rheumatology and Women's Health. To locate more recent articles which cite a referenced article, copy and paste the PMID article Identifier here.

Wilderness Medicine Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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