Subject guide for Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy
Search databases, point of care tools and dicitonaries
Databases
- PubMed - medicine, nursing, dentistry, biomedical research
- MEDLINE (Ovid) - as PubMed with different interface
- Embase (Ovid) - medicine, pharmacology, european centered
- CINAHL - nursing, physical therapy, nutrition
- Cochrane Library - systematic reviews, clinical trials
- Epistemonikos - systematic reviews
- PsycINFO (Ovid) - psychology, medicine, psychiatry
- Scopus - scientific, technical, medical and social sciences
- Web of Science - scientific, technical, medical and social sciences
- Find more medical databases in Oria
Point of care tools
- UpToDate - clinical information about diagnosis and treatment
- BMJ Best Practice - prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis
- Pyramidesøket - runs literature searches in several evidence-based information services simultaneously
- Nursing Reference Center Plus - for nurses. Includes videos and images
Pharmacy resources
- Drogesamlinger ved UiO (Medicinal plant collections at UiO)
- Encyclopedia of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy
- European Pharmacopeia
- Martindale
- Merck Index
- Pharmaceutical Excipients
- US Pharmacopeia
- Find more pharmacy databases in Oria
Dictionaries
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