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Dictionaries / Encyclopaedias

• Black’s Medical Dictionary.  41st edition, published 2006: Keele ebook (Keele ATHENS required off-campus)
• Blackwell Reference Online (Keele ATHENS required off-campus): Encyclopaedias, companions, guides & other reference works from Blackwell in the fields of ethics, bioethics/law, “genethics”, sociology & more
• MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary: Published by US National Library for Medicine / National Institutes of Health
• MediLexicon: Medical and pharmaceutical abbreviations, dictionaries and news
• MedTerms (Medicine Net) Medical Dictionary: Online medical dictionary published by MedicineNet (a US healthcare online media publishing company)
• MedlinePlus Encyclopedia:  Published by US National Library for Medicine / National Institutes of Health
• Mondofacto’s Medical Dictionary: Online medical dictionary of terms relating to health and life sciences

Online Reference

• eMedicine: Online medical evidence-based reference source (from WebMD)
• MedicineNet: Medical information for consumers from MedicineNet
• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy: Searchable or browsable full text of the 18th edition of this authoritative medical work

Search Engines / Website Directories

• MedHunt: From the Health Information on the Internet Foundation: you can search for sites that have HON certification
• NLM Gateway: Searches across PubMed and many other resources from the National Library of Medicine
• SCIRUS: Search engine for scholarly scientific information available on the Internet
• SearchMedica: Handpicked websites chosen in consultation with Health professionals, for health professionals. Also contains patient information (mostly from the UK). There are search options for nurses, pharmacists and medical students

General Topic Areas for all Health Schools:

Anatomy & Physiology

• Anatomy TV (ATHENS): Use the 3-D models to add anatomical structures
• Muscle Physiology & Design: An introduction to muscle physiology & design from the University of California, San Diego
• The Visible Human Project (US, National Library for Medicine): Digital image library of male and female anatomy using MRI, CT and anatomical images

Also browse the CD-ROMS in Short Loan. These can be found at the end of the CD section   

Critical Appraisal

• BMJ Topic: Qualitative Research: includes articles on how to read and appraise qualitative research
• CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme): Tools for appraising health & social care information
• Glossary of terms used in qualitiative research: (published by the BMJ)

Ethics & Healthcare Law

• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences - EBSCO
  Details of articles, letters, and reviews from more than 2,600 journals and 7,000 books in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
  You will need your ATHENS password to access EBSCO Databases from off-campus
• Philosopher’s Stone – via CSA Illumina (You will need your ATHENS password to access CSA Illumina from off-campus)
• Bioethics Web: Online resources in a variety of fields, including clinical ethics

For general law databases: view the Law Subject Resources page

Evidence-based Practice

• Bandolier: UK; read world-wide. Articles review information from systematic reviews, clinical trials and high quality observational studies
• Centre for Evidence-based Medicine (Oxford, UK): Links to evidence-based reviews and other evidence-based medicine sites; includes educational resources
• Cochrane Library: Systematic reviews and other evidence-based information to aid decision-making in healthcare research, funding, teaching and administration
• TRIP Database (Turning Research into Practice): Searches across a number of sources to retrieve evidence-based health information

Genetics

• Frequency of Inherited Disorders Database: National Library of Medicine - for use in the clinical context, medical research, epidemiological studies and the planning of related services
• GeneCards: Crown Human Genome Center, Israel & Weizmann Institute of Science: database of human genes, their products and their involvement in disease
• Genetic Conditions: Specialist Collection from Health Information Resources (NHS Evidence)
• OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man): National Library of Medicine: database of human genes and genetic disorders

Guidelines

• Click to view links prepared by the Health Library

Health in the community / epidemiology / public health

• Ethnicity & Health: Specialist Collection from Health Information Resources (NHS Evidence)
• Public Health: Specialist Collection from Health Information Resources (NHS Evidence)

Health Psychology / Sociology

• For relevant Keele databases in this area, view Key Databases:
  • CSA
  • EBSCO
  • Web of Knowledge
  • Zetoc
• Intute: Click on e.g. Psychology, Social Sciences

Healthcare Management & Statistics Relating to Health

• Via CSA Illumina (You will need your ATHENS password to access CSA Illumina from off-campus)
  • ASSIA: Includes information from the UK and US on health in general, and National Health Service Reforms
  • Physical Education Index: Includes general health information
• Via EBSCO (The following databases index a number of health service/management journals) (You will need your ATHENS password to access EBSCO from off-campus)
  • Academic Search Premier
  • Business Source Elite
  • CINAHL
  • Medline
• Department of Health
• Department of Health: Publications & Statistics
• Health Management: Specialist Collection from Health Information Resources (NHS Evidence)
• King’s Fund: Independent charity dedicated to improving the health system in England
• NHS Evidence: Management Specialist Library
• World Health Organization: Directs and co-ordinates authority for health within the United Nations. Sets the global agenda on healthcare reform, research

History of Medicine

• Images from the History of Medicine (National Library for Medicine): Search and browse images illustrating the social and historical context of medicine from the 15th century. Please note that the images are intended for private scholarship, study and research
• Intute’s Medical History resources:  Evaluated websites for the history of medicine

For general history databases: view the History & Archaeology subject page

Images

• Images from Health Information Resources (NHS Evidence): Free searchable collection of high quality medical images from Gray's anatomy, trauma.org, ECG library amongst others
• Medical Images and Videos: Health on the Net Foundation: Collection of images and videos

Please note: some material may be downloaded and used free of charge. Normally, however, material is strictly copyrighted

Information Science: Using the health information on the Internet

• Health on the Net Foundation: Guide for medical practitioners and lay persons to online useful and reliable medical and health information
• Intute: Virtual Training Suite – Health & Social Care Edition: Self-paced online tutorial. Equivalents for e.g. Medicine are also available

Related links: Critical Appraisal

For more tutorials and help sheets for using Keele databases, view Guides & Tutorials

Patient Information / Patient & Public Involvement

• Clinical Knowledge Summaries: click on Information for Patients (main menu)
• Patient & Public Involvement: Specialist Collection from Health Information Resources (NHS Evidence)
• TRIP: There is an option to search Patient Information Leaflets

Click here to view Patient Information links prepared by the Health Library

Check specific areas such as Medicine, Pharmacy for information relating to specialist areas

Research

• BioResearch (Intute): Quality Internet resources for the biomedical and biomedical sciences. Includes images

Also view: Key Databases, Journals and Books, Guides/Tutorials
Also view: Theses, Conference Proceedings, Grey Literature, Links by Topic Area