Resources

Participants may have access to the following resources:

Athens - Athens allows remote access to most of the resources listed below for everyone affiliated with DelMIRA member institutions.  Click here to register for remote access to your institution's resources.

CINAHL - Cumlative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature.  Available as a one-year trial courtesy of EBSCO.

DynaMed – a point-of-care tool, DynaMed provides evidence-based topic reviews on nearly 2,000 disease specific topics. DynaMed is updated daily, and also includes patient education handouts.

Health Business Elite Full Text – a database created specifically for healthcare administrators, Health Business Elite contains full text content from over 450 journals, some dating as far back as 1965.

MDConsult – is a cross-searchable compendium of over 50 textbooks in a wide array of disciplines, as well as over 100 journals, patient education handouts, drug information and current medical news. Physicians also have the opportunity to gain CME credits by utilizing MDConsult.

MEDLINE - the premiere index of biomedical literature produced by the National Library of Medicine.

New England Journal of Medicine – provides fulltext online access to the most current issue, plus fulltext back to 1993. Also included are procedure videos and the ability to download audio files of certain articles to an iPod or a PDA.

Nursing Reference Center - point-of-care resource intended for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians.  Available as a one-year trial courtesy of EBSCO.

NursingSkills –allows nurse managers and educators to assign, track and manage skills and test hospital staff. It includes supplementary material such as patient handouts that are Indexed and tied to specific skills.  Access available at AI DuPont Hospital for Children, Bayhealth Medical Center, Beebe Medical Center , Nanticoke Memorial Hospital , and St. Francis Hospital .

OVID Electronic Journals – participants chose approximately ten titles that most closely fit individual hospital specialties. Available titles include Annals of Internal Medicine , American Journal of Medicine , and Circulation .

STAT!Ref – cross-searchable compendium of approximately 25 mostly-nursing related textbook titles. Also includes access to ACP PIER. Produced by the American Academy of Physicians, PIER (Physicians' Information and Education Resource) is a Web-based decision-support tool designed for rapid point-of-care delivery of up-to-date, evidence-based guidance for clinicians. Information in PIER is presented in a "drill down" format, in which the user clicks from an opening guidance statement through to more specific information.

TDNet - provides "one-stop-shopping" for print and electronic journal holdings.  Search by journal title, see your institution's print and electronic holdings, link to the full text, or link to the table of contents.  Coming soon: TOUR Resolver - link directly to fulltext, no matter what search engine you are searching.

VisualDX - visual clinical decision support software.  VisualDX provides instant access to over 16,000 images that can help diagnose more than 900 visually identifiable diseases, drug reactions, or infections.  Although VisualDX is not a resource available as part of the DelMIRA package, it is promoted here because the Delaware Division of Public Health has purchased a three-year license for every hospital in Delaware.