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Medical Databases

CINAHL with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature

EbscoHost provides this database covering many topics on computers in medicine. Search the CINAHL Headings link at the top of the page to see what is available on decision support systems.


There is also a new feature called Visual Search. Grokker provides concept categories in circles to view deeper subconcepts easily on a graphical rather than textual layer.


MEDLINE/PubMed

PubMed is available from the National Library of Medicine. To see if decision support systems is a MeSH (Medical Subject Heading), access the link to MeSH Database in the right column of the search page.


When you search PubMed for the newest information be sure to use keywords as well as the official MeSH headings. The newest citations are not yet indexed (i.e., they do not have subject headings assigned to the articles), so a search by MeSH only will not capture these articles. Try the Advanced Search-beta for the newest search interface.


Health Source-Academic/Nursing

Another database provided by EBSCOhost that offers access to full-text articles medical related articles.

 

Nursing Resource Center and

Nursing and Allied Health Collection

Gale databases combining journal articles and books slanted towards nursing.

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