Databases

AccessMedicine

AccessMedicine is a comprehensive online medical resource that provides a complete spectrum of knowledge from the best minds in medicine. This resource provides medical students with a variety o resources needed to excel in basic science studies and clerkships, helps residents, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants with instant access to videos, self-assessment, and leading medical textbooks that facilitate decision-making at the point-of-care; and allows practicing physicians to brush up on their medical knowledge to ensure the best patient outcome.

Books @ OVID

Ovid delivers key medical, nursing, and pharmacy texts from a variety of publishers to clinicians' desktops through the Books@Ovid database.

ClinicalKey

• Access to subscribed content only. Personal account must be created to access some features

Full text access to selected medical texts, medical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, patient handouts, and CME materials.

CPS (formerly known as RxTx)

CPS Full Access includes the most current, evidence-based therapeutic information and non-prescription therapy for most common conditions, with cross-referenced drug tables and algorithms. Includes CPS Drug Information, critical updates such as warnings, advisories, and drug shortages; and useful tools such as medical calculators, Clin-Info, Pill Identifier and Lexi-Interact drug interaction checker.

DynaMed Plus

DynaMed Plus is a medical information database which provides the most current evidence-based information.

LactMed

A free online database with information on drugs and lactation, is one of the newest additions to the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) TOXNET system, a Web-based collection of resources covering toxicology, chemical safety, and environmental health. Geared to the healthcare practitioner and nursing mother, LactMed contains over 450 drug records.

It includes information such as:

1. maternal levels in breast milk
2. substance levels found in infants' blood
3. potential effects on breastfeeding infants and on lactation itself
4. American Academy of Pediatrics categories alongside compatibility levels for the drug if breastfeeding
5. alternate drugs to consider

References are included, as is nomenclature information (such as the drug's Chemical Abstract Service's (CAS) Registry number) and its broad drug class. LactMed was developed by a pharmacist who is an expert in this subject area. Three other recognized authorities serve as the database's scientific review panel. Ancillary resources, such as a glossary of terms related to drugs and lactation, and breastfeeding links are also offered.

VisualDX

A diagnostic decision support system designed by clinicians to aid medical professionals in the diagnosis of visually identifiable diseases. Provides instant access to specialist knowledge at the point of care, merging medical images with concise clinical text. Includes more than 18,000 images representing over 1,000 visually identifiable diseases, drug reactions, and infections. As the clinician enters specific patient findings, VisualDx creates a visual differential diagnosis. The clinician enters symptoms and other clinical findings, such as lesion type, body location, medical history, medications, etc. With each entry, the system builds and refines the differential, never eliminating a diagnostic possibility but ranking each one by relevance to the patient findings. VisualDx displays images and key clinical information on all relevant diagnoses for a quick side-by-side comparison to the patient. Intended not to substitute, but to complement traditional medical information sources.