Clinical Guides: Senior Medical Staff Guide: Databases

Access Emergency
A comprehensive online emergency medicine resource, providing quick diagnosis and treatment answers. Coverage date: Varies.
Access Medicine
A rich education platform with eBooks, multimedia, self-assessment tools, board prep and cases. Coverage date: Varies.
AMH: Australian Medicines Handbook
Advice about medicines and interactions searchable by drug name or therapeutic topic. Coverage date: 2021 - present.
Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook (AIDH)
Information on injectable medicines including antineoplastic and paediatric medicines. Continuously updated.
ClinicalKey
Elsevier platform of eBooks, journals and clinical support tools such as guidelines and calculators. Continuously updated.
Cochrane Library
Collection of Cochrane databases containing high-quality evidence including Cochrane reviews and RCTs. Updated every 3 months.
Embase (OvidSP)
A comprehensive biomedical and pharmacological database of peer reviewed literature on the Ovid platform. Coverage date: 1980 - present.
HealthPathways Melbourne
HealthPathways offers clinicians locally agreed information to make the right decisions, together with patients, at the point of care.
IBM Micromedex
Evidence based drug information including the RUGDEX, POISINDEX and TRISSELs databases. The platform also provide dosage calculators. Continuously updated.
MEDLINE
An extensive database of peer-reviewed literature provided by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Coverage date: 1946-present.
eMIMS Elite
MIMS is now eMIMS Elite.
Medicine information including product information (PI), pill ID, consumer medicines information (CMI) and drug interactions.

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.

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