Regional Library Services (WOHKN): All Databases

The Cancer Guidelines Database, managed by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, addresses the challenge of a rapidly expanding evidence base by providing access to thousands of Canadian and international cancer guidelines, all in a single database.

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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare.

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Premium nursing and allied health database ideal for practice, research, or education. Includes access to nearly 5 million records, more than any other nursing database!

Combines the best of Evidence-Based Health Care, information technologies and a network of experts to provide a unique tool for people making decisions concerning clinical or health-policy questions.

Helps diagnose and explain rare diseases

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

This database provides full text coverage for more than 130 well-known administrative journals. Critical for hospital administrators and managers, this database includes publications covering the business of health care administration and much more (EBSCO)

Ovid HealthSTAR contains citations to the published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research. It focuses on both the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery.

A continuously updated repository of syntheses of research evidence about governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health systems, and about implementation strategies that can support change in health systems. The types of syntheses include evidence briefs for policy, overviews of systematic reviews, systematic reviews, systematic reviews in progress (i.e. protocols for systematic reviews), and systematic reviews being planned (i.e. registered titles for systematic reviews).

The database contains approximately 1,200 evidence-based Canadian CPGs developed or endorsed by authoritative medical or health organizations in Canada and is maintained by Joule, a Canadian Medical Association Company

An international bibliographic database of over 4,500 biomedical journals. It covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre-clinical sciences from 1950 to the present.

Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.

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This broad-based, interactive resource gives you evidence-based information on over 60,000 herbs, dietary supplements, alternative systems of medicine, vitamin and mineral ingredients.

NORD's Rare Disease Database provides brief introductions for patients and their families to more than 1,200 rare disease

The Online Database of Health Statistics (ODHS) can point you to freely available health statistics that can be difficult to find on regular websites.

OTSeeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy. Trials have been critically appraised and rated to assist you to evaluate their validity and interpretability. These ratings will help you to judge the quality and usefulness of trials for informing clinical interventions. In one database, OTseeker provides you with fast and easy access to trials from a wide range of sources.

PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. PEDro is a free database of over 23,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality.

Portico is a network of addiction and mental health sites from across Canada. Portico offers clinical tools and evidence-based materials for health care providers, social service workers and others. While the resources on the core Portico pages are designed for professional use, they can be of equal interest to those with lived experience and their families. Portico hosts partner sites that are built and run by other groups and networks. They are editorially independent of the main site, with a variety of perspectives. Portico's search engine includes our partners and a wide range of external addiction and mental health sites to help you find what you need.

From the American Psychiatric Association, PsychiatryOnline.org offers the most comprehensive online access to psychiatric textbooks, journals, and professional development tools including the DSM Library. This all-in-one virtual library provides psychiatrists and mental health professionals with key resources for diagnosis, treatment, research, and professional development.

A comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.

Search the journal literature using this medical database.

Canada's authoritative source for prescribing and managing drug therapy at the point of care. It provides online access to evidence-based drug and therapeutic information.

TRIP is a 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.

Understanding rare chromosome and gene disorders