Guides: Clinical Rotation Resources: Point of Care Resources

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Overview

Resources listed below allow for a quick search to find evidence-based clinical information to answer your clinical questions. Keyword search is appropriate for most of the resources listed.

Key Resources

Dynamed Plus
Mobile version is available. Dynamed is a clinical reference tool with clinically-organized summaries for more than 40 medical specialties, covering many topics. It is a leading clinical decision support solution designed to reduce time at point-of-care to answer and provide the most current, high-quality information to clinicians.

UpToDate
Mobile version is available. UpToDate covers topic reviews across 26 medical specialties involving all major aspects of a particular condition, including symptoms, tests and diagnosis, and treatment options. All topics are subjected to rigorous peer review.
ClinicalKey
Access over 2 million journal articles, over 1,100 e-books, and hundreds of procedures and point of care references. You can find drug monographs, practice guidelines, images, and patient education material.
PubMed
Mobile version is available. PubMed is the premier database for biomedical literature. When accessed from Penn Libraries pages PubMed includes links to full-text journals to which the Penn Libraries subscribe.
Ucentral / Unbound Medicine
Unbound Medicine is a portal to medical information including Medline, journal table of contents, e-book content (Clinical Evidence, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests). It is accessible in three ways: web, handheld device and wireless.

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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration.

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o Includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration. The reviews are presented in two types: 1) Complete reviews - Regularly updated Cochrane Reviews, prepared and maintained by Collaborative Review Groups 2) Protocols - Protocols for reviews currently being prepared (all include an expected date of completion). Protocols are the background, objectives and methods of reviews in preparation.
ACP Journal Club
Published by American College of Physicians on a monthly basis in Annals of Internal Medicine.

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The American College of Physicians publishes ACP Journal Club, under the editorship of R. Brian Haynes, MD, PhD, at McMaster University, on a monthly basis in Annals of Internal Medicine. More than 100 journals in biomedical field are reviewed. Original studies and systematic reviews are summarized in value-added abstracts and commented by clinical experts.

Ucentral / Unbound Medicine
Mobile version is available. Unbound Medicine is a portal to medical information including Medline, journal table of contents, and e-book content (Clinical Evidence, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests).

CINAHL/Nursing Database
This database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health.

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Material from over 950 journals are included in CINAHL; online abstracts are available for more than 150 of these titles. Publications from the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing are indexed. The database also provides access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, educational software and audiovisual materials in nursing.

APA PsycInfo
The American Psychological Association's comprehensive indexing and abstracting service for the professional and scholarly literature in psychology and related fields. The American Psychological Association's comprehensive indexing and abstracting service for the professional and scholarly literature in psychology and related fields. Coverage is worldwide. Sources are in English and over thirty languages. Updated monthly.