LibGuides: Physician Assistant Resources: Databases

Core Databases for Physician Assistant Students

PubMed
Database of biomedical literature from the National Library of Medicine covering journal articles about medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, biology and public health from 1950 to the present; multiple mobile apps available, provides access to MEDLINE, etc. Includes links to full text of UNC-CH's electronic journal subscriptions.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1957-present

PubMed Health
PubMed Health specializes in reviews of clinical effectiveness research on prevention and treatment of diseases and conditions, with full technical reports as well as easy-to-read summaries for consumers. Clinical effectiveness research finds answers to the question “What works?” in medical and health care.
You can also use pull-down database selector in PubMed to choose PubMed Health.

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PubMed Health is based on systematic reviews of clinical trials. These clinical effectiveness reviews can show what treatments and prevention methods have been proven to work—and what remains unknown.

A search on PubMed Health runs simultaneously in PubMed. A filter is used to identify all the indexed scientific articles at the NLM that might be systematic reviews. This search includes articles from before 2003.

PubMed Health provides summaries and full texts of selected systematic reviews in one place. The reviews were generally published or updated from 2003.

Our Methods Resources collection includes documents about the best research and statistical techniques for systematic reviews and effectiveness research.

Information partners selected by PubMed Health to contribute their clinical effectiveness information can be found on the "About" tab.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is a collection of more than 770 full text nursing & allied health journals dating as far back as 1937, with bibliographic indexing for more than 5,000 additional nursing and related journals. Also included are select health care books, nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1982-present
Google Scholar
Enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
ClinicalKey
Full-text and video/audio/images of thousands of Elsevier's clinical books and journals, all videos from Procedures Consult, First Consult, additional medical images, practice guidelines, etc.; CME credits available.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Cochrane Library
Leading source for full-text systematic reviews in health care. Searches a collection of six databases that includes the CDSR, DARE, CENTRAL, CMR, HTA, NHS EED. Click on "Search Limits" or the Browse tab to select content from a specific database.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
National Guideline Clearinghouse (Coverage ended 7/16/18)
Publicly accessible resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

Access: No restrictions.
Embase
Try the new PICO search!
International database of biomedical literature, including gray literature for drug, medical device, and disease-related topics. Good for systematic reviews, biomedical research, pharmacovigilance.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Scopus
Similar to Web of Science. Very large citation database including health/medicine (like PubMed & Embase) plus social sciences and humanities citations/abstracts. Includes tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Web of Science (ISI)
Multidisciplinary coverage of thousands of high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Records # of times articles are cited. Includes access to other databases such as BIOSIS, Data citation Index, Journal Citation Reports and more.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1955 -
Academic Search Premier
Multidisciplinary academic database.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Indexing, 1975-present; Full-text, 1975-present

PsycInfo

TRIP Database : the Search Engine for Evidence-Based Medicine
Open access clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.

Access: No restrictions.

Access Case Files Collection

Access Case Files Collection
Complete collection of basic science, clinical medicine, and post-graduate level cases from the 23 Case Files series books.
• Interactive format allows users with free account to save progress and quiz themselves as they study.
• Basic Science subjects include anatomy, physiology, pathology, biochemistry, microbiology, pharmacology
• Clinical Subjects include ethics, anesthesiology, critical care, family medicine, pediatric medicine, geriatrics, internal medicine, obstetrics & gynecology, psychiatry, surgery, neurology, etc.
• Includes Medical Ethics & Professionalism

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.

Additional Core Guides

Allied Health Sciences Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants & Awards
Anatomy Resources
Clinical Reference
Disaster and Relief Medicine
Finding Data & Statistics
Finding Information for a Community Health Assessment
Geriatric Practice
Health Care Quality & Safety
Health Literacy
Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice Tutorial (UNC & Duke)
Medical Residents Resources
Mobile Health & Research Apps at UNC
Psychology & Neurosciences Resources (Davis)
Psychiatry & Mental Health Resources
Surgery Information Resources @ HSL
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Includes General, Burn, Critical Care, Cardiothoracic, GI, Oncology, Pediatrics, Urologic, and Vascular Surgery resources.

Anatomy & Physiology Databases

e-Anatomy

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Primal Anatomy.tv

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.

Point of Care Databases

AccessMedicine

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
ClinicalKey

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Facts & Comparisons e-Answers

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Micromedex (On Campus Only)

Access: On Campus only. Available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. No off campus access.
Natural Medicines

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Red Book : the report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (AAP)

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Access: English,Spanish
UpToDate

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
VisualDx

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.

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All campus databases

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Learn More about Using Databases

Don't forget, Ask Us when you have difficulty finding what you're looking for in a database.

Don't forget, many databases have a link to help files as part of their search screens.

Boolean Basics for Searching
Boolean searching helps you find less (narrows) or find more (broadens) results when you search in many databases and Web search engines. Boolean searching depends on the use of three terms: AND, OR, and NOT. Enter these terms in ALL CAPS because many search engines are case sensitive for these terms.

Full Text Articles via Find@UNC
Includes Find@UNC in PubMed and what to do when the article is not online via Find@UNC.