Databases

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  • American Indian and Alaska Native Health
       An information portal for and about the health of Native Peoples of the United States.
  • American Optometric Association Clinical Practice Guidelines
  • CAB Abstracts
       Produced by CABI, CAB Abstracts is the leading English-language abstracts information service providing access to the world’s applied life sciences literature. Subjects Include Agriculture, Environment, Veterinary sciences, Plant sciences, Mycology and parasitology, Food science, Human health, Nutrition. 1973 - Present
  • CAB Abstracts Archive
       Covers 1900 – 1973.
  • Child Welfare Information Gateway
       Child Welfare Information Gateway connects child welfare and related professionals to comprehensive information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. We feature the latest on topics from prevention to permanency, including child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption
  • CINAHL Ultimate (Nursing Literature)
       CINAHL Ultimate is the world?s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index
  • ClinicalKey
       A clinical insight engine that includes journals, ebooks, practice guidelines, drug information, CME materials, procedural videos, and patient handouts for the health professional.
  • ClinicalTrials.gov
       Search for clinical trials by medical condition or other criteria. A service of the US National Institutes of Health
  • Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
       Includes reports published in conference proceedings and in many other sources not currently listed in MEDLINE? or other databases
  • Cochrane Clinical Answers
       provide a readable, digestible, clinically-focused entry point to rigorous research from Cochrane Reviews. They are designed to be actionable and to inform point-of-care decision-making. Each CCA contains a clinical question, a short answer, and data for the outcomes from the Cochrane Review deemed most relevant to practising healthcare professionals, our target audience.
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
       Full text of highly structured systematic reviews and protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare
  • Cochrane Methodology Register
       A bibliography of publications which report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials
  • Dietary Supplement Label Database
       The DSLD contains the full label contents from a sample of dietary supplement products marketed in the U.S.
  • Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed)
       A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider
  • Dynamed Decisions
       Dynamed Decisions provide a growing collection of evidence-based clinical support and shared decision-making tools, created by our team of clinical experts, to enable busy clinicians to deliver highly personalized and patient-centered care in the context of an individual's risks, comorbidities, and preferences.
  • DynaMed Plus
       Completely reimagined for today’s clinicians, DynaMed combines the highest quality evidence-based information, expert guidance and a user-friendly, personalized experience to deliver accurate answers fast at the point of care.
  • DynaMedEx
       DynaMedEx is an evidence-based clinical reference tool. Contains more than 3,400 topic summaries across all disciplines. Updated daily based on surveillance of over 500 journals and critical appraisal of the best articles. Includes Micromedex drug resources. A mobile app is also available.
  • Dynamic Health
  • ECRI Guidelines
       Evidence-based clinical guidelines vetted by experts and evaluated against the Institute of Medicine Standards for Developing Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines.
  • EthnoMed
       The EthnoMed site contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle or the US, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world. It includes information for patients as well as for providers.
  • Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide)
       The Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) is your source for information about the effectiveness, economic efficiency, and feasibility of evidence-based interventions to promote community health and prevent disease
  • HealthFinder.gov
       Access to government and nonprofit health and human services information
  • Index to Chiropractic Literature
       The Index to Chiropractic Literature (ICL) provides indexing from 1985 to the present for most chiropractic journals
  • Joanna Briggs Library
       A unique suite of information resources to help integrate evidence into your practice. Includes publications such as best practice information sheets, evidence summaries, and systematic reviews.
  • LiverTox
       Clinical and research information from the US National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases about drug-induced liver injury
  • MEDLINE
       MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains more than 30 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.
  • MEDLINE Ultimate with Full Text
       MEDLINE Ultimate is the largest companion to the MEDLINE index and contains full text for thousands of journals included in the index. This collection also provides full text for many of the most used medical journals.
  • MedlinePlus - Health Information for Patients
       Authoritative information for patients and health consumers from the US National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.
  • MedlinePlus Health Information in Other Languages (for patients)
       Medline Health Info in Other Languages
  • My Health Decisions
       My Health Decisions offers a robust collection of shared decision-making aids that enable patients and providers to have meaningful and informed conversations that lead to improved outcomes and higher patient satisfaction.
  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health - Health Topics A-Z
       National Institutes of Health's lead agency for scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
  • NatMed Pro (formerly Natural Medicines)
       NatMed Pro - The most authoritative resource available on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies.
  • NORD - National Organization for Rare Disorders
       The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), a 501(c)3 organization, is a unique federation of voluntary health organizations dedicated to helping people with rare "orphan" diseases and assisting the organizations that serve them. NORD provides information about diseases, referrals to patient organizations, research grants and fellowships, advocacy for the rare-disease community, and Medication Assistance Programs that help needy patients obtain certain drugs they could not otherwise afford
  • Nursing Calculators
  • Nursing Reference Center Plus
       Nursing Reference Center includes information about conditions and diseases, patient education resources, drug information, continuing education, lab & diagnosis detail, best practice guidelines, and more
  • OpenDissertations
       EBSCO Open Dissertations makes electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) more accessible to researchers worldwide. The free portal is designed to benefit universities and their students and make ETDs more discoverable.
  • PubChem (was: Drug Information Portal)
       From the US National Library of Medicine. Searches more than a dozen sources for information about more than 12,000 drugs
  • PubMed MEDLINE searching
       PubMed provides access to the MEDLINE bibliographic database. If you are logged in to HEALWA, search results retrieved via this link will also link directly to any full text articles that HEALWA provides
  • Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source
       Designed for rehabilitation clinicians in a hospital setting, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source provides indexing for hundreds of sports medicine and rehabilitation journals, with records dating back to 1963. Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source includes access to more than 180 full-text scholarly titles in the discipline, including Journal of Rehabilitation
  • Rehabilitation Reference Center
       Rehabilitation Reference Center? (RRC) is an evidence-based clinical reference tool for use by rehabilitation clinicians at the point-of-care. RRC provides therapists and students with the best available evidence for their information needs in the areas of Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy and more
  • SocINDEX
       SocINDEX is the world's most comprehensive and highest-quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study.
  • SPIRAL - Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages
       The SPIRAL web site is a collection of links to Asian-language patient care documents that have been created by authoritative sources and are freely available on the web. Links are organized by topic and language.
  • Substance Use Screening & Assessment Instruments Database
       This database is intended to help clinicians and researchers find instruments used for screening and assessment of substance use and substance use disorders. Some instruments are in the public domain and can be freely downloaded from the web; others can only be obtained from the copyright holder. The database doesn't provide copies of instruments, but links to contact and availability information are included if known
  • Travelers' Health
       from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • TRIP Database
       Turning Research Into Practice. Allows practitioners to search the web to find the best evidence in support of patient care
  • Veterinary Source - COMING SOON
  • VisualDX
       Clinical decision support system designed to enhance medical decisions, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety. Includes a comprehensive medical image library. Contact Patricia Devine, devine@uw.edu, to get a log-in for VisualDX.
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