Osteopathic Medicine Toolkit
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OSTMED.DR® An index to the literature of Osteopathic Medicine, providing full citations and abstracts to literature published by or for the Osteopathic profession, as well as from relevant selected journals. OSTMED.DR® builds on the OSTMED database. As of May 2012 it was updated to the beginning of 2010. Available to the public.
MEDLINE (OvidSP) Premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of the biomedical literature. Includes some full-text. (1996 to most current week)
PubMed (NLM) PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. Click HERE to run a Medline search on Pubmed for articles from the last 5 years where "Osteopathic Medicine" is a major topic. Click the Findit button to see if UMDNJ has the article available online.
Cochrane Library includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews -- Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials -- Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews -- Cochrane Methodology Register -- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects -- Health Technology Assessment Database -- NHS Economic Evaluation Database.search simultaneously ACP Journal Club, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects.
Point of Care Databases
DynaMed is a medical reference system that uses an evidence-based approach. It is a full-text product that offers clinically organized disease summaries for almost 1800 topics. The product was created by a physician and designed for physicians to use as a clinical reference tool at the point of care.
FIRSTConsult is an evidence-based electronic primary care clinical information system providing specialized diagnostic tools and continuously updated thinking on the latest in evaluation and diagnosis, management options, patient outcomes and prevention at the point and time of a clinical encounter
Essential Evidence PLUS (formerly InfoRetriever) is a source of evidence-based information for clinicians. It includes: a POEMS (Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters) library (click the Findit button to see if UMDNJ has the full article available online); Cochrane Database abstracts; collections of clinical decision rules, diagnostic tests, history and physical exam maneuvers; and drug information, as well as ICD9 and E/M coding assistants.
To see an alphabetical list of UMDNJ Library Electronic Databases holdings click here