Guide to Resources in Medical Technology

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PubMed MEDLINE
Clinical and biomedical research articles and literature. Refine your search by year, age groups, practice guidelines, RCT and controlled trials, and more using the Limits tab in PubMed.
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CINAHL Plus with Full-Text – Ebsco database
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. The premiere research database for allied health literature.
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Springer Images
Formerly known as Images.MD. Provides high quality images for lectures and presentations.

Clinical Resources

AccessMedicine
Full text and images from the most recent editions of gold standard textbooks in internal medicine, cardiology, genetics, pharmacology, diagnosis and management, basic sciences, and patient care. Some features require free account registration, PDA download available.

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, DARE, ACP Journal Club, and the Cochrane Controlled Clinical Trials Registry.

InfoRetriever/InfoPOEMs
Concise, evidence-based clinical information from a variety of resources. Includes Cochrane abstracts, decision support tools, diagnostic calculators, full content of Griffith's 5MCC, and more. For full content description and search capabilities. PDA download available.

National Guideline Clearinghouse
Comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents.

MedCalc
MedCalc 3000 encompasses a wide array of pertinent medical formulae, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools. Select the "Resources" tab when you enter StatREF for access.

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eJournals
Search and browse eJournals by title. If there is not a match, search our print journal collection via the catalog.

Selected Titles:

American Journal of Medical Technology
Biotechniques
Clinical Laboratory Science
The Internet Journal of Laboratory Technology
Laboratory Investigation
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
International Journal of Imaging Systems
Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis
Radiography
The Techni-caller
Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Diagnostic Cytopathology

Search for eBooks owned by the Library

eBooks
See sections for diagnosis, laboratory techniques, endocrinology, genetics, histology, immunology, etc. Some examples are:

Delmar’s Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests
Histology Image Review
Infectious Diseases
Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests
Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease
Approved Lists of Bacterial Names

Print Books
Search the UAMS Library online catalog by book title or broad topic such as:

diagnostic test* or lab* test*
microbiological techniques
instrumentation
laboratory mathematic* (use * to truncate a word for more results)

Fines for overdue books are $1.00 per day per book.

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Last Updated: 01/18/2012