TTUHSC El Paso Library: Gastroenterology: Databases

Recommended Clinical Databases

ClinicalKey This link opens in a new window A search engine for physicians, targeting the three key research requirements, with comprehensive and trustworthy content.
DynaMed This link opens in a new window A point of care reference tool designed by and for physicians and other health care professionals. Contains nearly 2,000 clinically organized topics.
EMBASE This link opens in a new window Includes over 19 million records from over 7,000 journals, dating back to 1947, and growing each year. Within these records are the most up to date citations and abstracts from drug and biomedical literature via Medline and EMBASE.com.
Essential Evidence Plus This link opens in a new window A potent resource containing all medical evidence needed for decisions related to patient care.
PEPID Online Medical Software and Drug Database This link opens in a new window Allows all health care professionals to find fast, current, and detailed information on a variety of health care topics to better serve their work needs and patient outcomes.
PubMed This link opens in a new window A heavily used and recognized resource with a multitude of citations from biomedical literature. LinkOut allows users to access the articles from other sources.
PubMed Clinical Queries This link opens in a new window Allows users to find information specifically about etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of a particular disease with downloadable formats.

PubMed for Handhelds - Mobile app
Mobile site features multiple ways to search PubMed/MEDLINE: PICO (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome); askMEDLINE, a free-text, natural language search; and Consensus Abstracts. Apple iOS app includes these options as well as BabelMeSH which has search options in 13 languages.

SUMSearch 2 This link opens in a new window Users can search PubMed, DARE, and NGC all at once, with one integrated list of results. This resource was created by Dr. Robert Badgett from the UT Health Sciences Center.
TRIP Pro This link opens in a new window Users can search through high quality clinical evidence from a wide variety of sources.
UpToDate This link opens in a new window A popular database authored and used by physicians, with trusted evidence based information. Nearly 7,000 physicians, editors, and reviewers weed through current medical information to find the most relevant information designed to improve patient care.

Other Databases

AccessEmergency Medicine This link opens in a new window Offers users a wide range of emergency medicine resources, including cases, videos, textbooks, board reviews, real world Q & A, and more. This resource covers topics from neurologic and orthopedic emergencies to poisoning and trauma.
AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window An ever changing and ever expanding resource for all health care professionals and students. With daily updates, the user can get trusted answers to clinical questions with easy to use digital formatting.

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JAMAevidence This link opens in a new window Brings together the best available evidence and clinical experience to create evidence based medicine (EBM) that provides clinicians and patients the information they need to make informed health care decisions.
Lexicomp This link opens in a new window A user friendly database offering time sensitive drug information.
MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series This link opens in a new window This actionable information spans drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicines, as well as a comprehensive tool to educate patients. Having all of this in a clutter-free, easy-to-navigate interface saves clinicians time and promotes best practices.
National Library of Medicine (NLM) This link opens in a new window The world's largest biomedical library providing access to a vast collection. Works with a network of 6,500 medical library members across the country.
Ovid This link opens in a new window The home page for all of the Ovid databases, which includes full text books and journals, evidence base medicine resources, and bibliographic information.
SCOPUS This link opens in a new window Considered the largest source of research abstracts and citations, with quick and easy to find information.
Springer Nature Experiments This link opens in a new window One place to find more than 60,000 popular laboratory protocols and methods. The content is derived from 4 main sources: Nature Protocols, Nature Reviews Methods Primers, Nature Methods, and Springer Protocols.

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Library Resources

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