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A point-of-care clinical informationresource containing succinct and aggressively updated clinical topicreviews.

Provides fulltext access to Lane's resources.

Includes the MEDLINE database, which contains coverage of over5000 journals and more than 35.5 million citations for biomedicalarticles, including, but not limited to, clinical trials, systematicreviews, case reports, and clinical practice guidelines.

A medical searchengine provides access to 9,000 medical and procedural videos, 1,000books and over.Lane Library's Document Delivery Service obtainsarticle and book chapter PDFs as well as print book loans from otherlibraries at no cost to School of Medicine affiliated users as wellas scans PDFs of articles or book chapters from Lane's printcollection for a small fee.

Derived from CurrentMedical Diagnosis & Treatment, AccessMedicine's QuickMedical Diagnosis & Treatment provides topic reviews with keydiagnostic and treatment features for more than 500 diseases.

A repository ofmedical knowledge from internal medicine, cardiology, genetics,pharmacy, diagnosis and management, basic sciences, patient care,and more.

Continuously expanding, all databases in the repositorycontain the latest editions of selected medical titles.

MicroMedex: Premier pharmaceuticalinformation source containing multiple databases and drug referencetools. Of particular value is DRUGDEX Evaluations, one of the mostcomprehensive drug sources available.DynaMedis a clinical information resource used to answer questionsquickly at the point-of-care. Easy-to-interpret Levels ofEvidence help clinicians rapidly determine the quality of theavailable evidence.

Biomedical and pharmacologicalabstracting and indexing database of published literature, byElsevier. Embase® contains over 32 million records from over 8,500currently published journals (1947-present) and is noteworthy forits extensive coverage of the international pharmaceutical andalternative/complementary medicine literature.

Scopus is the largest abstract and citationdatabase of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books andconference proceedings.A druginformation resource containing: American Hospital Formulary System(AHFS), drug formulary for Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH)and Stanford Hospital & Clinics (SHC), Lexi-Drugs (adversereactions, dosage and administration, mechanism of action, storage,use, and administration information), Lexi-Calc, Lexi-ID, Lexi-I.V.Compatibility (King Guide), Lexi-Interact, and Lexi-PALS.A knowledgedatabase that provides access to topic reviews based on over 6000clinically relevant articles. The evidence-based content, updatedregularly, provides the latest practice guidelines in 59 medicalspecialties.Selects from the biomedicalliterature original studies and systematic reviews that areimmediately clinically relevant and then summarizes these articles inan enhanced abstract with expert commentary.

Multidisciplinarycoverage of over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, socialsciences, and arts and humanities, as well as internationalproceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences.

Includes cited reference searching, citation maps, and ananalyze tool.

Featuressystematic reviews that summarize the effects of interventions andmakes a determination whether the intervention is efficacious ornot.

Cochrane reviews are created through a strict process ofcompiling and analyzing data from multiple randomized control trialsto ensure comprehensiveness and reliability.

Provides druginformation targeted for patients.ECRI Guidelines Trust: A comprehensive database of evidence-basedclinical practice guidelines and related documents.MedlinePlus: A repository of healthinformation from the National Library of Medicine. Links are fromtrusted sites. No advertising, no endorsement of commercial companiesor productsLPCHCareNotes via MicroMedex: Patient education handouts customized byLPCH clinical staffMicromedexLab Advisor: Evidence based laboratory test informationProvides patient handouts from theAmerican Academy of Family Physician.

Largest,broadest eBook package; covers all sciences, as well as technology(including software), medicine, and humanities.

In addition to covering Wiley and Springer, MyiLibrary is alsothe only provider for Oxford and Cambridge University Press titles.No seat restrictions.

Acollection of biomedical books that can be searched directly byconcept, and linked to terms in PubMed abstracts.

A web-based, decision support systemfor infectious diseases, epidemiology, microbiology andantimicrobial chemotherapy. The database, updated weekly, currentlyincludes 337 diseases, 224 countries, 1,147 microbial taxa and 306antibacterial (-fungal, -parasitic, -viral) agents and vaccines.

Over 10,000 notes outline the status of specific infectionswithin each country.

Access SHC antibiotic guidelines integrated with information on antimicrobial therapy, HIV/AIDS therapy, and hepatitis therapy in a single searchable website and mobile device app.

VisualDx is a decisionsupport system that allows clinicians to build a patient-specificdifferential, search by diagnosis, or review medication-relatedevents.

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Healtheducation and information about illnesses, diseases and conditionsprovided by the American Academy of Family Physicians.Critical appraisals of newdrugs and comparative reviews of drugs for common diseases. Thekey resource for information on dietary supplements, naturalmedicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies.Excellent source for checking interactions.A specializedPubMed search geared towards helping clinicians quickly accesssystematic reviews.Patient education documentation for various conditions and life stages. Wellness and prevention information is also available.

David Lee Bassett MD (1913-1966), aprofessor in the Department of Anatomy at Stanford University Schoolof Medicine, pioneered innovations in dissection to create thiscomprehensive set of three-dimensional human anatomy photographs. An interactive atlas of human anatomy;over 40 modules covering the full body.68,600 images and videos, 400+step-by-step illustrated procedures, simultaneous search acrossThieme's journals, e-books, and PubMed.

Limited to 19simultaneous users.

Designed to teach or review humananatomy; turn labels on/off, some quizzing. 6thedition of An Atlas of illustrations and radiologic images providesviews and perspectives that elucidate complex anatomic relationships.

Incorporates muscle tables as quick look-up appendices.

Database of must-know casescovering every radiology subspecialty; clearly annotated images toidentify key findings at-a-glance. Select“Images” tab; search over 2 million images covering these subjectareas: Biochemistry, Dentistry, Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology,Medicine, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Nursing & HealthProfessions, Veterinary Science & MedicineA presentation tool withthousands of stunning illustrations and clinical images from Gilroyet al.'s Atlas of Anatomy, 2nd Edition, and other Thieme titles.Archive of medical images of cancer for freepublic download. Images are organized as “Collections”, e.g., disease(lung cancer, etc.), image modality (MRI, CT, etc.) or researchfocus. DICOM file format.