Originally published in 1899 as a pocket-sized reference aid for doctors and pharmacists. Now available online in versions for medical professionals and consumers. Articles are divided into an overview, etiology (“Causes” in the consumer version), pathophysiology (not included in the consumer version), symptoms and signs, diagnosis, prognosis, general treatment, and key points. If evidence-based guidelines exist for the topic in question, a link to the guideline article is included.
Standard reference for clinical practice in the mental health field. The classification of disorders is harmonized with the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (ICD), the official coding system used in the United States.
Provides access to full-text electronic information in latest editions of medical, chemical and pharmacological texts, dictionaries and indexes. Subjects range from emergency-critical care, nursing, oncology, pediatrics, point of care, primary care, psychiatry, pharmacology and cardiology.
From the U.S. National Library of Medicine, encyclopedia contains over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations.
From EBSCO, this database provides more than 580 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines with partiuclar strength in nursing and allied health.
The MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology.
PubMed comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5 by