Physical Therapy Resources

Multidisciplinary Databases

• Academic Search Complete: a full-text multidisciplinary database, offers many health-related articles.
• HighWire provides access to over 4 million full text articles from 1,168 journals. Topic areas include developmental biology, genetics, physiology, plant biology and population biology.
• ScienceDirect offers access to over 2,500 scientific, technical & medical peer-reviewed journals with many full-text articles.

Health/Medical Information

• Alt-HealthWatch is a full-text database of materials focused on complementary, alternative and integrated approaches to health care.
• CINAHL Plus with Full Text is a comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals.
• Health Source: Consumer Edition offers consumer information on the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition offers scholarly full-text journals about many medical disciplines.
• PubMed is the search engine for the MEDLINE database. MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine’s premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.  MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The database contains over 12 million citations dating back to the mid 1960s.
• SPORTDiscus with Full Text offers full text articles in the areas of sports and sports medicines.  Over 430 journals that cover sports and sports medicine are indexed and abstracted in this database.   

Evidence-Based Medicine Databases

• PEDro is a physiotherapy evidence database, and provides bibliographic information on randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews as well as evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.  Trials are rated for quality based on the scientific methods of the studies.
• DARE, the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, is a database created and maintained by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination.  DARE identifies and assesses systematic reviews across the world.
• Wiley InterScience offers abstracts and citations to materials in the Cochrane Library, an evidence-based medicine database.  The Cochrane Library does not currently provide full-text access to reviews or articles.

Reference

• STAT!Ref is an electronic collection of some of the top medical handbooks, from AHFS Drug Information to Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine.  All books are fully searchable by keyword.