Databases and Apps A-Z
The Library provides access to databases and mobile apps for high quality information and authoritative evidence, ensuring timely and effective access to medical and health care information.
Scroll down to see the entire list or use the navigation panel to find curated resources for your specialty. Log in using your Monash Health employee ID and password when prompted.
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Access Emergency (McGraw Hill)
- A comprehensive online emergency medicine resource, providing quick diagnosis and treatment answers
- Access Emergency user guide
- A rich education platform with eBooks, multimedia, self-assessment tools, board prep and cases
- Access Medicine user guide
- Information tool on common illnesses and drug treatments for the elderly
AMH: Australian Medicines Handbook
- Advice about medicines and interactions searchable by drug name or therapeutic topic
- AMH user guide
AMH: Children’s Dosing Companion
- Information about prescribing and medication dosing for paediatric patients
Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook (AIDH)
- Information on injectable medicines including antineoplastic and paediatric medicines
- Australian Standards may be requested by emailing library@monashhealth.org (Costs may apply)
- Australian Standards user guide
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- Evidence-based decision support tool for step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis and treatments
- BMJ user guide
- Free access to BMJ online education modules. Hundreds of independent, evidence-based modules for a range of specialties.
- BMJ user guide
- An electronic bookshelf providing access to eJournals
- BrowZine user guide
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- Medication fact sheets to help consumers, carers and family members understand their medicines
- Elsevier platform of eBooks, journals and clinical support tools such as guidelines and calculators
- ClinicalKey user guide
- Elsevier platform of eBooks, journals and clinical support tools for all nursing specialties
- ClinicalKey for Nursing user guide
Clinicians Health Channel (CHC)
- Victorian Health Department resources for public hospitals
- Register for an account with your Monash Health email address
- Clinical microbiology eBooks online for quick and easy access
- ClinMicroNow user guide
- Collection of Cochrane databases containing high-quality evidence including Cochrane reviews and RCTs
- Cochrane Library user guide
- A web-based tool used for screening references and data extraction. Ask us to set up an account for you.
- Covidence user guide
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- Fact sheets to help consumers, carers and family members understand their procedure or condition.
- A comprehensive biomedical and pharmacological database of peer reviewed literature on the Ovid platform
- Embase user guide
- Premium nursing and allied health database and search tool, ideal for practice, research, or education.
- Emcare user guide
Endnote
- Employees can access Endnote on PCs in the Library.
- To get a licence for Endnote, manager approval is required and the process completed in the IT Online Shop.
- Endnote user guide
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- Evidence-based information for clinical decision support and current hospital and community referral options.
- HealthPathways Melbourne user guide
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- Evidence based drug information including the RUGDEX, POISINDEX and TRISSELs databases. The platform also provide dosage calculators.
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- Medication database providing drug information, monographs, adverse reactions and warnings / precautions.
- A browser extension that allows you to access full-text when searching Google and PubMed.
- LibKey Nomad user guide
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Martindale’s Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) Checker
- Provides information on adverse drug reactions and clinical management. Search by drug, group, ADR or body system.
Martindale: The complete drug reference
- Includes additional drug monographs and preparations records for older drugs not included in the printed version.
- An extensive database of peer-reviewed literature provided by the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
- Medline user guide
- Medicine information including product information (PI), pill ID, consumer medicines information (CMI) and drug interactions.
- MIMS user guide
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- Dietary supplements, natural medicines and complementary, alternative and integrative therapies
NeuroBite (formerly: PsychBite)
- A database relating to psychological problems and issues due to acquired brain impairment
Newspapers (Gale OneFile News)
- A full-text newspaper resource for Australian media and more than 2,300 major world newspapers
- Gale OneFile News user guide
- Full text articles, research, and online learning units.
- Register for an account.
NVivo
- Software for qualitative analysis available at select PCs in Clayton, Dandenong, and Casey libraries.
- NVivo Transcription services are available via a ‘pay-as-you-go’ model to be paid by your Department.
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OTseeker (Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Medicine)
- Occupational therapy database with abstracts of systematic reviews, RCTs and occupational therapy interventions
- For search guidance click here
- Full text and abstracts of nursing-related journals and books
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Paediatric Injectable Guidelines On-line
- Information about safe administration of injectable medicines in children from the RCH
- Specialist drugs references, clinical guides, compatibility charts and therapies for adult palliative and hospice care.
PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database)
- Physiotherapy evidence based database for RCTs, systematic reviews and guidelines
- For search help click here
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health
- Advanced searching across scholarly journals, theses and books for nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine
- ProQuest user guide
- Database of peer reviewed literature in the psychological, social, behavioural and health sciences
- PsycInfo user guide
- Freely available database from the US National Library of Medicine (NLM)
- PubMed user guide
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- Read by QxMD is a mobile app and email alerting service you can use to track research and journal articles as they are published
- Read by QxMD user guide
- A medication guide for renal practitioners – prescription information, drug interactions and administration
- A repository of all research outputs by Monash Health employees and researchers.
- Research Repository user guide.
Royal Women’s Hospital Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Medicines Guide
- Evidence-based individual medicine monographs which support prescribing during pregnancy and breastfeeding
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- Database of studies across the scope of speech pathology practice
SPSS
- Software for quantitative analysis available at select PCs in Clayton and Dandenong libraries.
Stockley’s Interactions Checker
- Information about therapeutic medicines, herbal medicines, foodstuffs, drinks, pesticides and drugs of abuse
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- Online access to the Therapeutic Guidelines and drug index. Access by computer or set up the mobile app.
- Therapeutic Guidelines user guide
- A platform of neurosurgery eBooks, journals, procedures, cases, follow-up tips, images and videos
- MedOne Neurosurgery user guide
- A database focusing on pharmacology and toxicology including interventions, signs and symptoms
TRIP (Turning Research into Practice, Trip Medical Database)
- A database that aggregates international clinical guidelines and evidence based synopses
- IV compatibility resource via Micromedix. Information to assist with accurate IV compatibility decisions at the point of care
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- Evidence-based point of care tool for decision support with continuously updated expert opinion
- UpToDate user guide
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