Databases

The American College of Surgeons Online Video Library is the easiest, most innovative, and cost-efficient way to view the entire Collection of ACS-selected narrated surgical procedures. More than 2,000 videos are available in a wide selection of body systems and procedure types, with new videos added each year.
 

Available to surgeons on staff at Lee Health only. Request the log-in information from the Medical Library: medlibrary@leehealth.org

The BoardVitals for NCLEX-RN and CCRN test prep tool allows for decreased study time, with everything organized under one platform and the best questions to study listed upfront. With BoardVitals, you have the ability to create customized practice tests using many options including a number of questions, subjects, and more. Also included are detailed, up-to-date explanations with each answer, with references and links to applicable sources. 

Register today by visiting:

https://www.boardvitals.com/users/sign_up

Use your @leehealth.org e-mail address to register. If you are not using an institutional e-mail, please make sure to do the initial sign-up from a networked computer. After the initial sign-up is completed, you can sign in and use BoardVitals from anywhere using any device. Or, ask your Medical Librarian for more details.

Note: for optimal performance, this resource is best used with Firefox or Chrome.

The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature offers fast and easy access to top nursing and allied health journals, evidence-based care sheets, and quick lessons. Besides bibliographic citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL, it also contains continuing education modules; evidence-based sheets; quick lessons providing overviews of disease and conditions, and research instruments.

ClinicalKey provides comprehensive and fast answers using an intuitive search method. A single search retrieves relevant information from 1,000+ full-text books, 500+ full-text journals, videos, graphs, guidelines, patient education library, drug publications, and Medline abstracts.  Provides CME credits.

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials is a bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews.

Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs) provide a readable, digestible, clinically focused entry point to rigorous research from Cochrane systematic reviews. They are designed to be actionable and to inform decision making at the point of care. Each Cochrane Clinical Answer contains a clinical question, a short answer, and an opportunity to ‘drill down’ to the evidence from relevant Cochrane reviews. The evidence is displayed in a user friendly format, mixing narrative, numbers and graphics. 

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually.

The Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR) is a bibliography of publications which report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. It includes journal articles, books and conference proceedings; these articles are taken from the MEDLINE database and from hand searches. The database contains studies of methods used in reviews and more general methodological studies which could be relevant to anyone preparing systematic reviews. CMR records contain the title of the article, information on where it was published (bibliographic details), and in some cases, a summary of the article. CMR is produced by the UK Cochrane Centre, on behalf of the Cochrane Methodology Review Group.

CultureGrams is a reference resource for cultural information. It contains primary-source reports on 209 countries and territories—including every United Nations member state—focusing on 25 cultural categories, including language, personal appearance, greetings, visiting, family, life cycle, and more.

EBMcalc is a computerized toolset encompassing a wide array of medical formulae, clinical criteria sets, and decision tree analysis tools.