UMDNJ Pediatrics Toolkit

Pediatrics Toolkit

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Pediatric Databases

Cochrane Library from Wiley - Cochrane reviews bring you the combined results of the world's best medical research studies, and are recognised as the gold standard in evidence-based health care.
MDConsult - provides searchable, full-text access to over 50 of the world's most important medical journals, a collection of over 40 reference books, more than 1000 clinical practice guidelines, and almost 3,500 customizable patient education handouts. It also includes full-text drug information.
MEDLINE (Ovid) Premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of the biomedical literature. Includes some full-text.
PubMed (NLM) PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Health and Wellness Resource Center A collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, definitions, and directories. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. Includes some full-text.

Pediatric Electronic Books

Pediatric Electronic Journals

This is a sample of highly cited journals in pediatrics. To see a complete list of UMDNJ Library journal holdings go to:

Pediatric Patient Information

HeathyNJ - Healthcare information for New Jersey consumers, policy makers, and health care professionals
HealthyNJ: Just for Kids - information resource designed to address child and teen health issues.
MDConsult - provides searchable, full-text access to over 50 of the world's most important medical journals, a collection of over 40 reference books, more than 1000 clinical practice guidelines, and almost 3,500 customizable patient education handouts. It also includes full-text drug information.
Health and Wellness Resource Center - A collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, definitions, and directories. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. Includes some full-text.
AAP Children's Health Topics - American Academy of Pediatrics site provides family-oriented information on a wide variety of child health issues.

Resources for the PDA (Handheld Devices)

Pediatrics on Hand - maintains the most up-to-date collection of pediatric specific programs and files for the handheld.
Essential Evidence Plus - point of care tool designed to offer "Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters". Also includes access to 6 EBM databases, calculators, guidelines and quick reference tools.
PDA Toolkit
DynaMed - A "Just-In-Time" Internet reference integrating evidence based medicine with practical information for clinical practice on more than 1,800 clinical topics.
ePocrates - suite of popular diagnostic, drug and treatment tools for PDAs as well as web-based access.
hanheldmed.com - applications include patient tracking and standard medical texts designed for use with PDAs.

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