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Health & Medicine : Occupational Therapy

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Databases for Occupational Therapy
ABLEDATA
http://www.abledata.com/
  
Premier source for information on assistive technology.

CAIRSS for Music (Computer Assisted Information Retrieval Service System)
http://imr.utsa.edu/CAIRSS.html
  
Indexes research literature in music therapy, music education, music psychology and music medicine from 18 core journals, drawing selectively from articles in over 1000 other journals. From the Institute for Music Research. [more]

Critically Appraised Topics (CATs) in Rehabilitation from Queen's University
http://www.rehab.queensu.ca/cats/
  
Critically Appraised Topics (CATs) prepared by students in the School of Rehabilitation, Queen's University in Canada. Each Critically Appraised Topic, or CAT, represents an attempt to marshal the available research evidence on occupational and physical therapy interventions with an eye toward developing a clinical bottom line.. CATS are shorter and less rigorous versions of systematic reviews which have not undergone peer review. Browse or search by keyword.

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]

National Autistic Society Autism Database
http://www.autism.org.uk/nas/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=683&url=/autismdatasearch.htm
  
From the UK National Autistic Society. Search journal and magazine articles, pamplets, reports, videos and books (including popular reading and children's books) on autism. [more]

OT CATS: Occupational Therapy Critically Appraised Topics Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://www.otcats.com/topics/index.html
  
Each CAT represents an attempt to marshal the available research evidence on occupational therapy interventions. CATS, or Critically Appraised Topics, are shorter and less rigorous versions of systematic reviews which have not undergone peer review. From the University of Western Sydney, New South Wales.

OTSearch Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Maintained by the AOTA, this is the premier source for access to the literature of occupational therapy. Formerly known as OTBibSys. [more]

OTSeeker Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Search for randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews relevant to occupational therapy. Studies are ranked using the same PEDro scale used in the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. [more]

PsycINFO with PsycARTICLES Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Provides access to the international literature in psychology and material relevant to psychology in the related disciplines of education, medicine, business, sociology, and psychiatry. It covers journals and dissertations from 1887 to the present and book chapters and books from 1987 to the present. Includes PsycArticles, with the full text of 50 journals from APA and participating publishers. [more]

Journals

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

Other Resources Online for Occupational Therapy
AOTA
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American Occupational Therapy Association

History of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Health Related Professions (HRP)
http://library.muhealth.org/docs/history/historyhealthrelatedprofessions.htm
  
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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]

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.

University of Puget Sound OT Pages
http://www.ups.edu/x3024.xml
  

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