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Clinician Health Channel

This is an Australian site which is supported by the goverment. Some of the more useful links are below, along with their status - means you need a password and ID and means anyone can access.

Citation Databases contain bibliographic details and author abstracts from national and international publications. Those with a lock next to them require a ID and password

AustHealth & Meditext
Produced by the National Library of Australia, currently indexes 160+ Australasian journals, with 95+ Australasian journals in full text. Information is indexed on all aspects of Allied Health, Nursing, Medicine, the Social Sciences and Humanities. It contains valuable, culturally relevant Australian information (e.g. Rural and Indigenous Health).

CINAHL
Provides indexing of the literature related to Nursing and Allied Health. The database also provides access to abstracts, healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, educational software and audiovisual materials in nursing.

Medline
Produced by the U.S.A. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Medline indexes information from all areas of medicine, health services and administration. More than 3,900 journals are indexed, with abstracts included for about 51% of the records.

PsycINFO
Produced by the American Psychological Association, covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, and education.

OTseeker
A database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to Occupational Therapy.

PEDro
A physiotherapy evidence database, developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in Physiotherapy.

PubMed
Medline access through NLM to biomedical literature.

Australian Medicines Handbook
A formulary of drugs marketed in Australia. There are three main types of information supplied, drug monographs, drug class and treatment documents

MIMS
Documents essential product information on over 2,300 prescription and non-prescription drugs used in Australian clinical practice.

Micromedex
Contains clinical decision support databases and tools, including:

a Drug Interaction Tool - which allows you to key in a list of drugs a patient is taking and determines the interactions between the drugs, food, alcohol, tobacco, lab interferences and disease contraindications
Alternative Medicine Information - including interaction information with prescription drugs
Emergency Medicine, Medical and Acute Care Protocols for diagnosis & treatment
Poisons or Toxicology Management information - including clinical effects, treatment, management, pharmacology and toxicology on such things as spider or snake bites, chemicals, household products, cosmetics, paints, poisonous plants, street drug & prescription drug overdose and much more.

Full text clinical reviews on various diseases and conditions, eg. Pneumothorax, Lyme disease, Aortic dissection, Child abuse, Elder abuse

Therapeutic Guidelines
Aim to provide succinct and explicit recommendations for therapy for a broad range of conditions. The recommendations are an independent source of therapeutic advice and represent consensus opinion based on evidence, reviewed by a panel of experienced Australian practitioners. Therapeutic Guidelines are a valuable 'second opinion' for experienced prescribers.

There are ten titles and one compilation text related to the issues with breastfeeding and pregnancy. Some of the common titles include, Analgesic, Antibiotic, Respiratory, and Psychotropic, amongst others. Traditionally Therapeutic Guidelines have been distributed as pocket-sized books. The electronic format creates exciting new possibilities, such as improved access and searching capabilities across the texts.

Paediatric Pharmacopoeia
(This database requires ALL users to enter a password)
This well-known reference has approximately 100 new drug entries of alphabetical drug listings for quick reference information on guidelines for upper limit of paediatric dose, drug administration and compatibility, therapeutic drug monitoring, indications for use, trade names and preparations available.

Australian Prescription Products Guide
Contains prescription product information, consumer medicine and reference information for all prescription items in Australia, incorporating Australian approved food additive numbers, patient support organisations, and drug combinations. You will need to register to use this free service. The information is updated monthly.

Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits
Provides information on the arrangements for the prescribing and supply of pharmaceutical benefits under the commonwealth government's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

National Prescribing Service
A non-profit organisation, independent of government and the pharmaceutical industry, with a goal to improve the health of Australians through quality prescribing of medicines by providing access to independent, balanced, critically appraised information on medicines to prescribers and consumers.