ASSESSING & COMPARING DATABASES FOR

PANCREATIC CANCERCINAHLCLINICAL KEYDYNAMEDPUBMED

MEDLINEUPTODATE

CINAHL Complete 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, with no embargo.

CINAHL – FEATURE: Full-Text; RESULTS: 970

CINAHL – FEATURE: Illustrations; RESULTS: 100

CINAHL - FEATURE: Peer Reviewed; RESULTS: 1,460

CINAHL – FEATURE: Evidence-Based; RESULTS: 60

ClinicalKey offers searching of over 700 books, 400 journals, and 2500 procedural videos, evidence-

based and peer reviewed. Includes MDConsult, FirstConsult and Procedures

Consult in one database

DISEASE, PROCEDURE, DRUG

Three panels work in tandem to quickly and clearly organize and display the search results, and help expand your initial search. In addition to that, two tabs, Reading List and Presentation, help you save the selected information online for posterior use.

CLINICALKEY: CONVENIENT LIMITER NAVIGATION PANELS DETAIL RESULTS

CLINICALKEY ADDITIONAL TYPES OF SEARCH RESULTS FOR PANCREATIC CANCER:

JOURNALS: 7612

CLINICAL TRIALS: 969

ILLUSTRATIONS: 4042

BOOKS: 1096

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool intended for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care. DynaMed contains clinically-organized, evidence-based summaries and American Hospital Formulary Service (AHFS) drug information

summaries.

Helpful filters guide your search

PubMed/Medline

More than 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and life science journals. Citations may include links to full-text articles from PubMed Central or publisher web sites. It is necessary to use the NSU PubMed to link to full-text articles using the Find It! button

Below is the public website for Medline that does not link to HPD Library subscriptions:

PUBMED LINKOUT FEATURE FOR FULL-TEXT

HOW TO GET FULL -TEXT

from different sources

It is necessary to use the NSU PubMed to link to full-text articles using the Find It! Button.

MEDLINE (Pubmed) - National Library of MedicineNLM's provided Version of MEDLINE - Includes Old-MEDLINE and

PreMedline.

Outside Tool for NSU Enabled

MEDLINE (Pubmed) - National Library of Medicine: NLM's provided Version of MEDLINE Outside Tool for NSU Enabled Screen Search:

PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

The “pancreatic cancer” search with no filters yielded 67,153.

PUBMED Full-Text Search Results for Pancreatic Cancer: 14,602.

PUBMED Video-Audio Media Search Results for Pancreatic Cancer: 64.

PUBMED Clinical Trial Search Results for Pancreatic Cancer: 2791

PUBMED Clinical Trial Full-Text Search Results for Pancreatic Cancer: 645

PUBMED EVIDENCE-BASED SEARCH (Note: An Evidence-based Type of Search is not part of PUBMED set of filters in the drop-down box; hence the need for entering “evidence-based” as a search term together with “pancreatic cancer.”

PUBMED EVIDENCE-BASED SEARCH RESULTS FOR PANCREATIC CANCER: 198

PUBMED PEER-REVIEWED SEARCH RESULTS FOR Pancreatic Cancer: ?According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, most journals in PubMed are peer-reviewed. PubMed, however, has no special filter to limit results to peer-reviewed journals. Using a publication such as Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory that can be verified (http://ulrichsweb.serialssolutions.com The database does provide a filter for journal categories (as seen below).

Illustrated, full-text, evidence-based topic guides provide clinical information on a wide variety of diseases and disorders including their diagnosis, management and therapy. Also

includes drug information, as well as screening and prevention strategies.

Special top tabs on the search screen consist of the following sections: patient information, new developments and a list of medical calculators.

UpToDate

The STAYING UP TO DATE infographic section of the database claims that all articles are evidence-based and reviewed. The number of search results, however, is not displayed.

Convenient three panels make the information clear at first glance showing results and respective abstracts in addition to the links to the left to further filter the results.

UpToDate Graphics Search Results: Number of results not specified

UpToDate SPECIAL FEATURE – PATIENT INFO

UpToDate Extra Feature: MEDICAL CALCULATORS