Allied Health

Databases for Allied Health

This page provides a filtered list of library databases for Allied Health professionals.

Scroll down to see the entire list or use the navigation panel to find curated resources for your specialty.

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BMJ Best Practice

BrowZine

  • An electronic bookshelf you can use to access the Monash Health Library’s journal collection.
  • BrowZine user guide

C

Clinical Key (CK)

  • Elsevier platform of eBooks, Journals and clinical support tools including guidelines and monographs.
  • ClinicalKey user guide

Clinicians Health Channel (CHC)

  • Victorian Health Department resources for public hospitals.
  • Register for an account with your Monash Health email address.

Cochrane Library (CENTRAL)

  • Collection of Cochrane databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence including reviews and RCTs.
  • Cochrane Library user guide

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Embase

  • Conference Proceedings, Journal Articles-Citations/Abstracts/Systematic Reviews, Pharmacy, drug and medical device coverage.
  • Embase user guide

Emcare

  • Premium nursing and allied health database and search tool, ideal for practice, research, or education.
  • Emcare user guide

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MEDLINE

  • An extensive database of peer-reviewed literature provided by the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
  • Medline user guide

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Natural Medicines

  • 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 (ABI).

O

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.
P

PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database)

  • Physiotherapy evidence based database for RCTs, systematic reviews and guidelines.
  • For search help click here.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health 

PsycINFO (APA PsycInfo)

  • Database of peer reviewed literature in the psychological, social, behavioural and health sciences.
  • PsycINFO user guide

PubMed (PubMed MEDLINE)

  • Freely available database from the US National Library of Medicine (NLM).
  • PubMed user guide

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Read by QxMD

  • 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

S

SpeechBite

  • Database of studies across the scope of speech pathology practice.

Stockley’s Interactions Checker

  • Information about therapeutic medicines, herbal medicines, foodstuffs, drinks, pesticides and drugs of abuse.

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Therapeutic Guidelines

TRIP (Turning Research and Practice, Trip Medical Database)

  • A database that aggregates international clinical guidelines and evidence based synopses.

U

UpToDate (UTD)

  • Evidence-based point of care tool for decision support with continuously updated expert opinion.
  • UpToDate user guide

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