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Medical and Clinical Staff Resources
The following AZHIN resource information is intended for VVMC medical and clinical staff. To obtain an AZHIN user name and password, please contact Karen Fanning, library associate/CME coordinator at ext. 36444 or 639-6444.
Arizona Health Information Network (AZHIN): The Library is a member of AZHIN which is a cooperative network that provides a foundation for knowledge-based information supporting healthcare practice and training in Arizona. AZHIN provides electronic access to the literature databases most used by physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and allied health professionals. The databases include full-text journals through MEDLINE, CINAHL, Health Business Fulltext Elite, NEJM, Stat!Ref (full-text books), and other Internet resources. (For a complete description of accessible databases, journals and other mentioned resources, visit the AZHIN website at AZHIN.org)
AZHIN Resources - Databases
CINAHL provides coverage from 1981 to the present, updated monthly, of the literature in nursing and 17 allied health disciplines. More than 2900 journals are indexed, including virtually all English nursing journals along with selected titles in biomedicine, alternative/complementary therapies, and consumer health. Full text is available for selected nursing standards, practice acts, pamphlets, state nursing journals, research instruments, and critical paths.
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases in medicine that contain the results of high-quality, well-conducted medical research, and is a key resource in evidence-based medicine.
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)
Cochrane Reviews are full text articles reviewing the effects of healthcare. The reviews are highly structured and systematic, with evidence included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria, to minimise bias. Data are often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually.
- Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
CENTRAL includes details of published articles taken from bibliographic databases (notably MEDLINE and EMBASE), and other published and unpublished sources. CENTRAL records include the title of the article, information on where it was published (bibliographic details) and, in many cases, a summary of the article. They do not contain the full text of the article.
- Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR)
The Cochrane Methodology Register is a bibliography of publications which report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. It includes journal articles, books and conference proceedings; these articles are taken from the MEDLINE database and from hand searches. The database contains studies of methods used in reviews and more general methodological studies which could be relevant to anyone preparing systematic reviews. CMR records contain the title of the article, information on where it was published (bibliographic details) and, in some cases, a summary of the article. They do not contain the full text of the article.
- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
DARE is the only database to contain abstracts of systematic reviews that have been quality-assessed. Each abstract includes a summary of the review together with a critical commentary about the overall quality. The database is a key resource for busy decision makers and can be used for answering questions about the effects of specific interventions, whether such questions arise from practice or when making policy. DARE covers a broad range of health-related interventions and includes more than 3000 abstracts of reviews in fields as diverse as diagnostic tests, public health, health promotion, pharmacology, surgery, psychology and the organization and delivery of healthcare. DARE complements the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews by quality-assessing and summarizing reviews that have not yet been carried out by The Cochrane Collaboration.
- Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA)
The HTA database brings together details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions) from around the world. The aim of the database is to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care. The HTA database is produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York, UK, using information obtained from members of INAHTA and other health technology assessment organizations.
- NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED)
As healthcare resources are finite, information about both costs and effects are essential to making evidence-based decisions about competing healthcare interventions. But information about cost-effectiveness can be difficult to identify, appraise and interpret. NHS EED assists decision-makers by systematically identifying economic evaluations from around the world, appraising their quality and highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses. The database contains more than 5000 abstracts of quality-assessed economic evaluations. NHS EED is produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York, UK.
Health Business FullText Elite: This database provides comprehensive full text journal content for 490 journals detailing all aspects of healthcare administration and other nonclinical aspects of healthcare institution management. Topics covered include hospital management, hospital administration, marketing, human resources, computer technology, facilities management and insurance.
MedCalc3000 is a collection of more than 400 calculators, clinical criteria sets and decision trees that are indispensable to anyone practicing, teaching or studying evidence-based medicine. With every search you perform, STAT!Ref automatically presents links to relevant tools within MedCalc 3000. The complete contents of MedCalc 3000 include: Clinical Criteria Sets; Decision Trees; Medical Equations; Unit and Dose Converters; and Calculations and Equations by Specialty.
MEDLINE - Available using the OVID, EBSCO, or PubMed interface. MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database that contains more than 16 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine generally dating back to about 1949, with some older material. The subject scope of MEDLINE is biomedicine and health, broadly defined to encompass those areas of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering needed by health professionals and others engaged in basic research and clinical care, public health, health policy development, or related educational activities.
STAT!Ref is a cross-searchable electronic medical resource that integrates core texts and reference titles with evidence-based clinical guidance resources. Among the approximately 109 titles are Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual, ACP's PIER, Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, ICD-9-CM, ACP PIER & AHFS Drug Information Essentials, and Basic & Clinical Pharmacology. Stat!Ref also includes MedCalc 3000, a collection of more than 400 calculators, clinical criteria sets and decision trees.
AZHIN Resources - Journals
The LWW Total Access Collection is a full text collection of more than 260 journals.
New England Journal of Medicine - Access to full text articles from 1993 to the present. Journal articles are available immediately upon publication.
Ovid Nursing Journal Collection - Contains 29 full text nursing journals.
Other resources
- 4,700 open access journals
- Complementary & Alternative Medicine subset of PubMed
- Dietary Supplements Labels Database from the National Library of Medicine
- FDA Electronic Orange Book
- GreenFILE (environmental issues)
- HerbMed® from the Alternative Medicine Foundation
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
- MEDLINEplus (consumer health info) from the National Library of Medicine
- National Guideline Clearinghouse from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- POPLINE from the John Hopkins University
- Teacher Reference Center
- TOXNET
AZHIN also invests in technologies that streamline and promote seamless access to resources.
- Athens Single Sign-on
Only one username and password for all AZHIN resources. Used by those member institutions who do not provide institutionally-based IP access.
- Link Resolver
Provides the ability to seamlessly link from citations in a database to the full text of a journal article.
MD/First Consult and Nursing Consult Resources
MD/First Consult and Nursing Consult brings leading medical resources together into one integrated online service to help physicians and nursing staff efficiently find answers to pressing clinical questions and make better treatment decisions. It allows staff to find answers quickly, keep up with new developments, and educate patients.
The site is designed to meet the exacting needs of clinical practitioners, providing practical and time-saving features that let you quickly access the precise information you need.
Medical Reference Books: The complete list of texts consists of more than 50 leading medical reference books. Users can search the entire collection simultaneously to pinpoint the specific information needed or can select one book to search.
Full Text Journals and Clinics of North America: Full text articles are available through a powerful search engine that includes the complete contents of more than 80 journals and Clinics of North America. PDFs are available for many of the articles requested.
Journal Databases: Simultaneously search the full text of our online journals and millions of MEDLINE abstracts.
Guidelines: Assess the MD/First Consult collection of more than 1,000 peer-reviewed practice guidelines, which are regularly updated and organized by topic and authoring organization for easy browsing.
Patient Education: Nearly 10,000 printable, patient handouts which you can customize, adding your own notes, patient instructions and contact information.
CME: Grand Rounds activities across 15 specialties. FREE CME credit for the first five conferences that you submit for credit. Plus, Clinical Cornerstone and FREE CME, sponsored by Exerpta Medica.
Drug Information: MD/First Consult drug information is provided by Gold Standard. MD/First Consult is one of the most efficient tools available to physicians today, putting a breadth of highly respected, current clinical resources at your fingertips.
Keep Up With the Latest Developments: MD Consult makes it easy and convenient to stay current with the newest developments in practice — from recent journals to FDA announcements. Throughout the site, updates are flagged and highlighted so you'll know instantly what is new.
News: The latest findings and developments in medical news, sorted by interest, allows users to stay current with new developments from all of the major journals, government agencies, and medical conferences. Users also receive concise clinical summaries and links to related information.
In This Week’s Journals: Select articles from the most respected medical journals. Key contents are presented in an easy-to-scan format, including concise article summaries that provide a fast overview.
Educate Patients: MD Consult includes patient education handouts that you can customize to help your patients understand their illnesses and your treatment recommendations.
Consumer Medical Resources
MedlinePlus is a reliable resource for good health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. Health professionals and consumers alike can depend on it for information that is authoritative and up to date. MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources about more than 650 diseases and conditions. There also are lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. MedlinePlus is updated daily and can be bookmarked at the URL: medlineplus.gov. There is no advertising on this site, nor does MedlinePlus endorse any company or product.
GoogleScholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
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