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**5MinuteConsult**Decision support resource that covers 2,000+ diseases and conditions and includes 200+ procedure videos, 200+ diagnosis and treatment algorithms and charts, prescribing and safety information for 1,900+ drugs, and patient handouts.

**ACP Journal Club**Monthly feature in Annals of Internal Medicine that summarizes the latest evidence-based clinical information relevant to internal medicine and its subspecialties published in over 120 leading medical journals.

**AnatomyTV**Medically accurate and detailed 3D graphic renderings of human anatomy with benchmark anatomy, physiology, and clinical content.

**AORN eGuidelines+**goes to AORN databaseeGuidelines provides a wealth of resources, such as practice guidelines, evidence-based recommendations, clinical checklists, templates, competency verification tools, and audit tools to support perioperative patient safety and quality outcomes.

**APA PsycBooks**Database of books chapters from the American Psychological Association and other distinguished publishers, digitized content of historical significance from the Archives of the History of American Psychology collection, classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from the 1600s, and exclusive electronic releases of authored entries from APA/Oxford University, *Press Encyclopedia of Psychology*.

**APA PsycInfo**Database of citations and abstracts to journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports in the behavioral sciences from 1806-present.

**AudioDigest Login**goes to AudioDigest Login | **AudioDigest Registration**Audio medical education platform that publishes clinical lectures, which enables physicians and nurses to manage and complete their certifications and professional development requirements.

**Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination**Over eight hours of video on head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques.

**CINAHL Complete**Database for nursing and allied health professionals, offering access to over 600 full-text journals, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, and more.

**ClinicalKey**Database of online books, journals, procedure videos, multimedia, drug monographs, and practice guidelines published by Elsevier.

**ClinicalKey for Nursing**Database of nursing core online foundational textbooks, journals, procedural videos, Mosby’s Evidence-Based Nursing Monographs, clinical overviews, clinical calculators, and other resources and tools published by Elsevier.

**Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews**Database of systematic reviews and meta-analyses which summarize and interpret the results of medical research.

**The Cochrane Library (via Ovid)**goes to the The Cochrane Library (via Ovid)Collection of databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making comprised of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, ACP Journal Club, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Cochrane Clinical Answers, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, Health Technology Assessment, NHS Economic Evaluation Database.

**Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source**Database that includes full text, indexing and abstracting for hundreds of journals, books, monographs, magazines and trade periodicals covering dentistry and oral sciences.

**Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed)**Peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed, including data on maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.

**DynaMed**Combines the evidence-based information, expert guidance and a user-friendly, personalized experience to deliver accurate answers at the point of care.

**EBMCalc**Evidence-based medical reference and tool set which includes pertinent medical formulae, clinical criteria sets, and decision tree analysis tools.

**EBSCOhost**Single interface to simultaneously search the EBSCO databases CINAHL Complete, Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source, Medline Complete, PsycBooks, and PsychInfo.

**Essential Evidence Plus**Evidence-based clinical decision support system featuring over 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, tools, images, and summaries covering the most common conditions, diseases, and procedures clinicians come in contact with every day.

**EyeDock** (Contact VML for login)Clinical reference for optometry, including clinical calculators and an ophthalmic medicine database.

**Isabel**Diagnosis checklist using patient demographics and clinical features to help clinicians broaden their differential diagnosis and recognize a disease at the point of care.

**Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database**Evidence-based nursing and allied health database with over 3,000 records of evidence-based recommended practices, evidence summaries, best practice information sheets, systematic reviews, and systematic review protocols.

**LWW Health Library**Online library providing interactive access and simple search capabilities to essential Lippincott textbooks, as well as rich multimedia ancillary content comprised of procedural videos, images, real-life case studies and quiz banks specifically tailored for the specialty.

**MEDLINE Ultimate**Database providing full-text access to 1,800+ journals indexed in MEDLINE.

**Ovid**Interface to search across multiple full-text journal collections, online books, and databases such as MEDLINE, The Cochrane Library, Emcare, and the Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database.

**Ovid Emcare**Database with over 5 million citations and abstracts from 3,500 nursing and allied health journals, including coverage of over 2,800 journals not available on other leading nursing databases.

**Ovid MEDLINE**Ovid interface to search MEDLINE, the premier biomedical literature database containing over 27 million references from 5,200 biomedical journals, dating from 1966 to present.

**Patient Education Reference Center**Database with patient information handouts that can be customized, printed, and given to a patient at the point of care.

**Pharmacist's Letter**Advice, free from pharma influence, to help hospital pharmacists make the most informed, evidence-based decisions about medication therapy and medication management.
                - Hospital Pharmacist's Letter :  Advice, free from pharma influence, to help hospital pharmacists make the most informed, evidence-based decisions about medication therapy and medication management.
                - Hospital Pharmacy Technician's Letter :  Concise, hospital-specific recommendations and clinical resources to guide interactions with both pharmacists and patients in acute care and ambulatory settings, all focused on improving patient care .
                - Pharmacy Technician's Letter :  Concise, actionable recommendations and clinical resources to guide interactions with both pharmacists and patients, all focused on improving patient care .

**PsychiatryOnline**Online source for the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5, peer-reviewed journals, textbooks, practice guidelines, self-assessments, and continuing medical education.

**PTSDpubs**Database providing access to the worldwide literature on PTSD and other mental health consequences of traumatic events from 1871-present.

**PubMed**National Library of Medicine's free interface to access MEDLINE, the premier biomedical literature database containing over 27 million references from 5,200 biomedical journals, dating from 1966 to present.

**STAT!Ref**Full-text medical library that enables users to search authoritative online books, journals, and evidence-based, point-of-care authoritative resources.

**Travax**Goes to Travax (CAC required) (CAC Authentication Required)Concise, constantly updated, location-specific, expert-vetted summaries of health and safety concerns and necessary preventive measures (including MILVAX requirements) for 237 countries and territories drawn from a wide variety of medical, public health, foreign service, and news resources from the United States and abroad.

**UpToDate**Clinical decision support tool with comprehensive synthesis of the evidence, followed by recommendations that can be acted on at the point of care.

**UpToDate Lexidrug (formerly Lexicomp)**Evidence-based referential drug database for prescribing, fulfilling, and administering medications.

**UpToDate Lexidrug (formerly Lexicomp) for Dentistry**Dental-specific evidence-based referential drug database for prescribing, fulfilling, and administering medications.

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