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CINAHL (Cumulative index for Nursing & allied health literature)
 CINAHL is the Cumulative Index for Nursing & Allied Health Literature and covers from 1981 to the present. It uses its own CINAHL subject headings® developed specifically for this database. CINAHL covers these subjects: nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. CINAHL is available on the EBSCOHost platform from the Clinician'sHealth Channel for public hospital clinical staff at the RVEEH.
Source: EBSCOHost web site
General Medical Databases
Bandolier Bandolier is an independent evidence- based health care journal published on the internet. It has been published monthly since 1994 by Oxford University Scientists. The paper version of Bandolier was discontinued in 2007, however the internet version is still active. All past issues are available full text and free online to search and read.
Source: Bandolier web site
Cochrane**

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases which contain independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The Cochrane Library provides Cochrane reviews, other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials.
Read more about Cochrane.
Source: Cochrane Library web site
EMBASE

EMBASE is a biomedical bibliography database with a focus on drug and pharmaceutical research. EMBASE is updated daily and covers almost 5,000 active journals, of which nearly 2,000 are unique compared with MEDLINE. Each EMBASE record contains a full bibliographic citation, and over 80% of these citations have an abstract. EMBASE is available on the Elsevier platform from the Clinician'sHealth Channel for public hospital clinical staff at the RVEEH.
Source: Elsevier web site
Intute Intute is a free online service which provides access to web resources for education and research. All information and material available on the web site is evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. The four main subject areas are Science and Technology, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences and Health & Life Sciences.
Source: Intute web site
Meditext (provided on the Informit platform) Meditext is a full content online database linking articles from over 120 medical and health journals to records contained in the Australasian Medical Index (AMI). It is provided by RMIT Publishing on the Informit platform. Meditext is available on the Clinician'sHealth Channel for public hospital clinical staff at the RVEEH.
Source: Informit web site
Medline

MEDLINE® (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's® (NLM) premier bibliographic database which contains over 16 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. MEDLINE records are indexed with NLM's controlled vocabulary - the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®). MEDLINE is available on the EBSCOHost platform from the Clinician'sHealth Channel for public hospital clinical staff at the RVEEH.
Source: National Library of Medicine web site
MIMS Online MIMS Online is the online version of MIMS - Australia's most comprehensive medicines database. MIMS Online offers access to essential information on over 4,500 prescription and non-prescription drugs. MIMs Online is available from the Clinician'sHealth Channel for public hospital clinical staff at the RVEEH.
Source: MIMS web site
Netting the Evidence

Netting the Evidence web site provides support and access to organisations and learning resources, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals. The purpose of the web site is to is facilitate evidence-based healthcare. Resources can be browsed by type or searched.
Source: Netting the Evidence web site
PubMed**

PubMed is a service available via the NCBI Entrez retrieval system, which was developed by the National Center
for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and it is now located at the U.S.
National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubMed includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948.
Source: PubMed web site
Trip Database The Trip Database is an internet resource for evidence-based medicine. The Trip database also includes medical images and patient information leaflets.
Source: Trip Database web site