Patient Information
The State Library of Western Australia has databases that are licensed under a state-wide agreement and are available for use from home using your Western Australian public library membership card number.
These databases include Consumer Health Complete and Health and Wellness Resource Centre
Other resources
- PubMed US national library of medicine database and includes over 15 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
- MedlinePlus (a service of the US National Library of Medicine)
- Health Insite (Australia)
- Healthfinder (US)
- Free medical journals
Alphabetical list of approximately 750 journals. - BioMed Central
Alphabetical listing and search option. - Internet Scientific Publications
Alphabetical list of peer reviewed journals. - PubMed Central archive
Alphabetical listing and advanced search option. - HealthWeb
WA Government website listing health resources. - Emerging infectious diseases journal
US centre for disease control.
Clinical Information
Resources useful for clinical practice:
- Find a clinical definition (MedlinePlus dictionary).
- Australian research centre for population oral health (Oral health drug information and reports. Based at the University of Adelaide).
- Drug information at USP DI (US pharmacopeia dispensing information for the patient).
- Medical images (Hardin metadirectory compiled by the University of Iowa. Search medical images by subject).
- Cancer (US site. Diagnosis, treatment and drug information).
Evidence-based practice
For general information about evidence-based practice try these sites:
- Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (NHS Research & Development, Oxford) This site includes materials on how to practice EBM, glossary of terms, plus "toolbox" for health practitioners.
- Centre for Evidence Based Dentistry (Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford)
- Cochrane Collaboration (All Australian residents can access the Cochrane Library free- access is provided by Australian government funding).
- Australasian Cochrane Centre has information about the Cochrane collaboration, links to the Cochrane review groups and access to abstracts of Cochrane Reviews.
- Cochrane Library.
Statistics
- AIHW (Australian health and welfare statistics).
- Australian Bureau of Statistics
AusStats provide free statistical information on 1996 census, 2001 census and many other ABS publications. - World Health Organisation
Statistics compiled by the United Nations. - National Cancer institute
US site on cancer statistics. - Centre for Disease Control
US site on disease statistics.
Sites that provide medical news, treatment updates, discussion forums, journal alerts and conference news
- Australian Dental Association (ADA members can sign up here for regularly updated news and information).
- Medicine Australia (News updates and online newsletter).
- MedJet (Formed by a group of physicians to provide alerts, discussion board, searchs etc.).
- HCN (Health communication network. Australian site lists upcoming conferences).
- WHO (World health organisation public health mapping and GIS programme to globally map disease spread etc).
