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Paramedic Science Databases

Academic Search Complete
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Abstracts and indexing for over 11,000 journals from around the world with the full text coverage of over 7,000 titles, including more than 6,000 peer reviewed publications covering the fields of science; social science; education; psychology; language and linguistics; arts and literature.

 

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Academic Search Complete

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BestBETs

 

BestBETs is a database of rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions principally in emergency medicine, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature. The database also includes a significant number of BETs (=Best Evidence Topics) covering cardiothoracics, nursing, primary care and paediatrics.

BNI (British Nursing Index)
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British Nursing Index is a nursing and midwifery database, covering over 200 UK journals and other English language titles. A useful resource for current trends in UK nursing care and policy for nursing and midwifery students, clinical, academic, and management staff and researchers. Coverage: 1994 -

 

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British National Formulary (BNF)
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The British National Formulary (BNF) provides up-to-date guidance on prescribing, dispensing and administering drugs and medicines. It details medicines prescribed in the UK, with special reference to their uses, cautions, contra-indications, side-effects, dosage and relative costs.

 

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CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) with Full Text
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CINAHL covers virtually all English language core journals in nursing and allied health disciplines, as well as publications from the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing.
Coverage: 1982 - .

 

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CINAHL with Full Text

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Clarke's Analysis of Drugs and Poisons
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Clarke's online is intended for use by scientists to identify and quantify drugs and poisons in body fluids, tissue samples and pharmaceutical and industrial products.

 

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Cochrane Library

 

The global resource for best evidence in healthcare, comprising a collection of databases of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews, health economics and methodologies. Access to The Cochrane Library is free for all residents of England - no login is required.

Health Information Resources

 

Formerly known as the National Library for Health, Health Information Resources is the gateway to online health care resources for all who work within or for the NHS. It offers access to the full text of much material which cannot be found in traditional literature databases, such as reports from Governments, charities, Royal Colleges and other professional organisations, guidelines and protocols, specially commissioned reviews, and clinical images. Most content is freely available without the need for username or password, but some requires an NHS Athens account (on application to an NHS Trust library).

Internurse
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The Internurse library is a full text collection of nursing journals published by the Mark Allen Group.

 

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Journals@Ovid
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Database of scientific, technical and medical journals from over 50 publishers. Includes full-text access to over 40 health titles, plus links to full-text where Bournemouth University has access rights.

 

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Medline ®
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Medline® is the bibliographic database of the United States National Library of Medicine. It is the computerised counterpart of Index Medicus.
Coverage: 1966 - .

 

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NHS Evidence

 

Aims to provide a comprehensive evidence base for everyone in health and social care. It includes a number of different types of information including primary research literature, practical implementation tools, guidelines and policy documents. NHS Evidence incorporates the former National Library for Health. Most content is freely available without the need for username or password, but some requires an NHS Athens account (on application to an NHS Trust library).

PsycINFO
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Bibliographic database of the literature of psychology. In addition to covering core topics such as personality or mental health it also contains references on behavioural topics from related disciplines such as health care, education, business, organisational behaviour, consumer behaviour, criminal justice and artificial intelligence.
Coverage: 1872 - .

 

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PsycINFO

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PubMed

 

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from Medline and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948 with linking to fulltext articles within PubMed Central, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

 

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Note: Medline is the largest component of PubMed and approximately 5,200 journals are currently indexed for Medline. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM's controlled vocabulary, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).

ScienceDirect
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Search or browse the content of over 1700 Elsevier journals. The service includes access to Medline with links to the content of Elsevier journals.

 

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Social Care Online

 

Social Care Online is the UK's most extensive database of social care information. It is produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, and includes research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites. Some full text is available. The database is updated daily.

Stockley's Drug Interactions
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Stockley's provides information on interactions between therapeutic drugs, proprietary medicines, herbal medicines, foods, drinks, pesticides and drugs of abuse. Each monograph typically contains a summary, and sections covering clinical evidence, mechanism, clinical importance, and management.

 

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TRIP Database Plus

 

The TRIP Database (Turning Research Into Practice) is a single point of access to many sources of 'evidence-based' health information. For example, Medline, the Cochrane Library, Clinical Evidence, NICE Technology Appraisals and many others can all be searched simultaneously through TRIP. All links are to material freely available on the web, whether journal articles, reviews, guidelines, medical images etc. Words in the title and/ or text of a document can be searched. The database is updated monthly.

 

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