Teach yourself guides
Click on the links below to download teach yourself guides to the clinical information resources available.
Don't know how to start your literature search? Download the guide to structuring your question so you can retrieve the best evidence.
For high quality reviews of the best research on the effectiveness of health care interventions start with the Cochrane library.
NHS Evidence provides a range of clinical databases to NHS staff - MEDLINE from PubMed, CINAHL, EMBASE, BNI (British Nursing Index), AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine), PsycInfo, Health Business Elite, HMIC (Health Management Information Consortium).
- A brief guide to NHS Evidence
- Brief guide to searching the healthcare databases
- Guide to searching healthcare databases (This may take some time to download)
If you use PubMed to search some of the articles in your results may be available in full text using your NHS Athens username and password. To see these full text articles you will need to create a My NCBI account
The Maternity and Infant Care database provides an overview of key midwifery and medical research that will help to inform practice.
ClinicalKey provides access to an integrated online family of more than 750 First Consult point-of-care monographs, over 400 key medical journals in full-text, 700 leading medical and surgical textbooks plus videos and guidelines to help clinical staff find answers to support best patient care.
Have emails sent to you listing the table of contents from journals you have selected.
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