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The View From The VA
The Central
Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHS) Library has a number of
online resources available to the health care practitioner
on the VHA Intranet. Located in CPRS (the VA medical record system) under
TOOLS under the heading Vlibrary or on the VHA Intranet website at http://vha16sps1/vlibrary/ is
a virtual library of knowledge based resources.
The following virtual resources are available:
EBSCOhost. Provides access to several databases that can be searched
individually or simultaneously.
- Biomedical Reference Collection. Provides access to 200 full
text journals covering such disciplines as clinical medicine, nursing,
dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical
sciences.
- CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature).
This is the complete CINAHL database with full text/page image coverage
for 276 journals from 1987 to the present.
- Expanded Nursing & Allied Health Databases. This database contains
200 full text journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine,
health sciences, consumer health, and allied health disciplines.
- Business Source Corporate: The world's largest, English-language,
full text, periodical, business database provides corporations with
nearly
3,000 quality magazines and journals, offering invaluable information
on virtually every aspect of business. Areas covered include human
resources, sales & marketing, finance, public relations, executive
management, information management, manufacturing, and more. This database
is updated
on a daily basis.
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences full-text collection Provides access to 500 full text journals.
- Psycinfo Provides indexing
and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,500 journals from
over 50 countries. This database, provided by
the American Psychological Association, also includes abstracts for
dissertations, books and book chapters ranging in date from 1887 to the present.
- Cochrane Library includes: Cochrane Database
of Systematic Reviews contains full text articles,
as well as protocols focusing on the effects of
healthcare. The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) includes
abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health
care
from around the world.
- Medline. The National Library of Medicine's
MEDLINE file.
Harrison's Online. The full searchable text of Harrison's Principles
of Internal Medicine.
Health and Wellness Center. An integrated collection of general interest,
health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference
books and pamphlets. Records are available in a combination of indexing,
abstracts and/or full text formats.
MD Consult. Designed to meet the needs of practicing physicians, MD Consult
includes the most trusted clinical content from over 50 publishers and
organizations.
Merck Publications. Full texts of the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy,
the Merck Manual of Medical Information (home edition), and the Merck
Manual of Geriatrics.
Stat-Ref. A complete medical reference library including most Little,
Brown books.
New England Journal of Medicine: Online full text of NEJM.
UpToDate Online: Full-text clinical resource providing instantaneous,
evidence-based answers to the most commonly asked questions in clinical
practice
Also, in CPRS located under TOOLS under the heading of MICROMEDEX, the
databases include drug information, toxicology, drug interactions, dosing,
and a CareNotes database of patient education handouts. If you need help
accessing or searching any of these resources, or would like to have
a literature search done, please contact the CAVHS library at 257-5622.
Edward J. Poletti
Chief, Learning Resources Service
 
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