Textbooks or "point of care" summaries are good sources for background information.
Note: Available on campus only.
An evidence-based resource that covers more than 7,300 topics in 13 medical specialties and includes more than 75,000 pages of text, graphics, links to Medline abstracts, more than 250,000 references, and a drug database.
Search for scholarly articles in the following databases:
CINAHL Complete is the most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature.
PubMed is provided by the National Library of Medicine covering the fields of Nursing, Anesthesia, Medicine and Health Professions. Click on the "Get it @ Bryan" button for access to full text (if available) or the article request form.
Full Text is freely available except for the current year. Please submit an interlibrary loan request for the current year.
The Cochrane Collection contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies.
Searching for additional organizations? An extensive list is available from MedlinePlus.
Practice guidelines and clinical guidelines are available from a wide variety of professional organizations.