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Clinical databases

The following databases are available in the 'Books, Journals and Databases' section of NHS Evidence Health Information Resources (formerly National Library for Health) at www.library.nhs.uk| via your Athens login.

• AMED  1985 to present
  Allied and Complementary Medicine is a unique database covering the fields of complementary or alternative medicine.
• BNI 1985 to present
  British Nursing Index comprises over 250 of the most popular and important journal sources in the nursing and midwifery fields. 
• CINAHL 1981 to present
  CINAHL covers all aspects of nursing and allied health disciplines.
• EMBASE 1980 to present
  EMBASE provides current and comprehensive information on drugs and pharmacology, and all other aspects of human medicine and related disciplines.
• HEALTH BUSINESS ELITE
  Health Business Elite contains full text content from 480 journals, detailing all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management.
• HMIC
  The Health Management Information Consortium database is a compilation of data from two sources, the Department of Health's Library and Information Services and King’s Fund Information and Library Service. 
• MEDLINE from PubMed 1950 to present
  PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles.
• PsycINFO 1806 to present
  The PsycINFO database provides extensive international coverage of the literature on psychology and allied fields.

Other useful databases

• Pubmed
  Service of the National Library of Medicine in the United States  which includes millions of citations from Medline database and other life science journals with links to free full text articles.
• Trip
  Leading resource for evidence-based clinical question-answering, allowing health professionals to find high quality material easily.
• UpToDate
  (Available for ORH staff only on ORHi)
  Evidence-based question-answering service for clinicians and patients including the latest clinical findings and treatments. 
• PEDro
  Physiotherapy evidence database  which gives access to bibliographic details of randomised control trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice.
• NHS Evidence
  (formerly National Library for Health)
  Provides easy access to a comprehensive evidence base for everyone in health and social care who takes decisions about treatments or the use of resources. Provides high quality evidence-based guidance and includes a range of information types including primary care research literature, practice implementation tools, guidelines and policy documents.
• TOXBASE
  Primary clinical toxicology database of the National Poisons Information Service.
• OTseeker
  Abstracts of systematic reviews and critically appraised randomised control trials relevant to occupational therapy.