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Background Information | Using the Catalog | Electronic Periodical Databases | Internet Sources
| Background Information and Reference Sources | ||
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ACP Medicine (formerly Scientific American Medicine Online) Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology Chronic Illness: Impact and Interventions Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine Click here for Harrison's Online Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests Management of Diabetes Mellitus: Perspectives of Care Across the Life Span MD Consult Click on Reference Books for access to 38 renowned online medical texts; click on Patient Education for access to 2,600 online handouts. Primary Care of the Child With a Chronic Condition Principles of Ambulatory Medicine Professional Guide to Diseases Scientific American Medicine Online (now called ACP Medicine) STAT!Ref Online access to 30 medical texts. A Stroke of Genius: Illness and Self-Discovery Textbook of Primary Care Medicine Textbook of Pulmonary Diseases | ||
| Using The Catalog | ||
| You will find materials under subject headings and keywords such as those listed below. For an understanding of the impact of chronic illness on the patient and family, pay particular attention to subheadings such as Anecdotes, Biography, Case Studies, Personal Narratives, Popular Works, Psychology and Social Aspects. | ||
| Electronic Periodical Databases | ||
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AMED, the Allied and Complementary Medicine Database (AMED) covers journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, and several professions allied to medicine, 1985 on. | ||
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CINAHL, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health covers the period 1982 to date. Over 600 nursing and allied health journals are regularly reviewed and indexed, including Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine and Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. | ||
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Medline is produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and is widely recognized as the premier source for biomedical literature. MEDLINE is available from 1966+ and covers virtually every subject in the broad field of biomedicine, indexing articles from over 3,600 international journals. | ||
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Health Source Plus provides full text for nearly 270 periodicals. Click on EBSCOhost Web; then select Health Source Plus. | ||
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ProQuest Research Library indexes summaries of articles from over 5,000 publications, with many in full text, full image format. Indexing and abstracting backfiles date back to 1986. Broad subject areas include health, science, social sciences and psychology. | ||
| Periodical Indexes | ||
| The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature is a paper index providing periodical indexing back to 1890. It is available in the Abplanalp Library reference area. | ||
| Internet Sources | ||
| For addtional websites on Chronic Illness, selected and evaluated by the Fall 2001 second year Nursing students, please click here. | ||
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CDC Health Topics A to Z From the Centers for Disease Control Chronic Disease Teaching Tools From the New York State Department of Health Health Topics Directory From Medline Plus Health Information Healthfinder From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NIH Health Information Index From the National Institutes of Health National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion National Jewish Medical and Research Center For lung, allergic and immune diseases | ||
| Roberta (Bobby) Gray, public services librarian, University of New England Libraries, Westbrook College Campus, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland, ME 04103 |
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