Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care

Best Practice is a completely new concept for information delivered at the point of care.
In a single source there is combination of the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion – presented in a step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Its patient-focused approach represents a major advancement in information delivery at the point of care.

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BMJ Case Reports is an award winning journal that delivers the largest single collection of case reports online with more than 9000 articles from over 70 countries. You can easily find clinically important information on common and rare conditions.
King's staff and students and NHS staff may submit to this journal. Please contact nhsenquiry@kcl.ac.uk for the fellowship code

The British Pharmacopoeia (BP) is the official collection of standards for UK medicinal products and pharmaceutical substances. Since 1864, the BP has been providing authoritative standards for medicinal products and pharmaceutical substances and it continues to play an important role in the standard-setting process worldwide. Now used in over 100 countries, the BP remains an essential reference for all individuals and organisations working within pharmaceutical research and development, manufacture and testing around the globe.

A bibliographic database for the fields of nursing and allied health literature indexing over 5,000 journals. Available via the EBSCO Host service.
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The library incorporates six key resources in the field of evidence based practice: CDSR, DARE, CENTRAL - the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, the Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR), the NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) and the Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA). A seventh database provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration.

Access to the Cochrane Library is free to NHS staff, patients and the public in the United Kingdom. For information on access from other countries see this page

Embase contains over 22 million records spanning 1947-present, with over 1 million records added annually. Each record contains the full bibliographic citation, indexing terms, and codes; and 80% of all citations in Embase include author-written abstracts. The Embase journal collection is international with over 7,500 active peer-reviewed journals more than 90 countries. Updated daily and weekly.
Broad biomedical scope covering the following areas:
• Drug therapy and research, including pharmaceutics, pharmacology and toxicology
• Clinical and experimental (human) medicine
• Basic biological science relevant to human medicine
• Biotechnology and biomedical engineering, including medical devices
• Health policy and management, including pharmacoeconomics
• Public, occupational and environmental health, including pollution control
• Veterinary science, dentistry, and nursing
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A collaborative, multilingual database of health evidence. It is the largest source of systematic reviews relevant for health-decision making, and a large source of other types of scientific evidence.

Built around a powerful search engine, provides access to the best evidence based resources, especially good for guidelines and reviews. It also provides links to other NHS resources, such as healthcare databases, electronic journals and Specialist Collections.

A collection of audio visual presentations comprising over 1500 animated talks by leading world experts in the biomedical and life sciences. The collection is regularly expanded and updated.
Design and Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials
Drug Metabolizing Enzymes
Endoplasmic Reticulum
Epigenetics
Eukaryotic Gene Regulation
Evolution and Medicine
Free radicals and the oxygen paradox
From DNA to Proteins
Frontiers of Research in Autoimmunity
Gene-Environment Interactions
Genetic Epidemiology
Henry Stewart Talks (Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection)
Henry Stewart Talks (Marketing and Management Collection)
Human Population Genetics
Mitochondrial Biogenesis
Monoclonal Antibodies as Therapeutic Agents
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Obesity
Protein Epidemiology
Protein Folding, Aggregation and Design
Psychopharmacogenetics
Retroviruses
RNA Interference
Signal Transduction via Protein Tyrosine Kinase Receptors
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Using Bioinformatics in the Exploration of Genetic Diversity
Viruses and Viral Diseases
World of Hormones

intermid.co.uk is the online archive of peer-reviewed articles from the British Journal of Midwifery, the UK's leading clinical journal for midwives and the African Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health. Content is from 1996 – present and includes clinical reviews, professional articles and in-depth research on all aspects of midwifery training and practice.

Internurse is an online archive of peer-reviewed nursing articles published by MA Healthcare UK Ltd. It draws together articles from a number of high-quality journals, including the foremost generalist clinical journal, British Journal of Nursing, and the leading journal for wound-care professionals, Journal of Wound Care.

The King's Fund has been producing publications since the turn of the 20th century. These cover areas of work that the Fund has addressed throughout its history, from hospital food and menu planning (The King's Fund, 1945) to making integrated care a reality (Ham and Walsh, 2013).

There are now nearly 2,000 of these documents, most of which are held in hard copy at our information centre in central London. More than 1,000 of these have been digitised so far.

In order to preserve this unique record of the philanthropic endeavours of The King's Fund and the history of the management of health and wellbeing in London and England, the Fund is digitising all of its publications since its foundation in 1897. We have already scanned about half of our publications and we aim to complete the remainder in 2015.

This website gives the public access to these documents from anywhere in the world.

Maternity and Infant Care is the world’s largest midwifery-specific database, and a key information resource used by maternity health care professionals and student midwives worldwide to support their research, practice and study requirements.

Maternity and Infant Care indexes not only academic journals and book chapters, but a range of grey literature drawn from information sources not typically well represented in indexing databases, but vital for staying appraised of the latest developments in maternity and infant care, such as government publications, clinical guidelines, and parliamentary proceedings, as well as news items. Details of correspondence and commentary written in response to articles are also included.

Maternity and Infant Care - key facts

•Type: Bibliographic with abstracts
•Number of records: 300,000 +
•Update frequency: Approximately 100 records are added each day
•Coverage: earliest record is dated 1857, with comprehensive coverage from 1988 onwards
•Subjects covered: Maternity services, midwifery profession and practice worldwide, pregnancy, labour and birth, postnatal health, and care of the infant up to six weeks, infant feeding, and more.
•Journal coverage: Over 400 English-language journals and other sources are indexed, including a range of grey literature.

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MedicinesComplete provides a comprehensive online resource allowing access to publications including;
AHFS Drug Information
British National Formulary
BNF for Children
Clarke's Analysis of Drugs and Poisons
Dietary Supplements
Herbal Medicines
Martindale: The complete drug reference
Pharmaceutical Excipients
Stockley's Drug Interactions
Stockley's Interaction AlertsThe integrated search scans all of the databases:
More than 10,000 drug, poison, interaction and herbal monographs
The latest advice on prescribing, dispensing and administering drugs and medicines
Up-to-date guidance on disease treatments, disease management and therapeutics
The latest advice on analysing, formulating and preparing drugs, medicines, and many other pharmaceutical products
The combined knowledge of hundreds of leading experts, scientists and researchers
Over 100,000 references to original research, scientific papers, reports and case studies
Complete international coverage

MedicinesComplete is updated quarterly.

Bibliographic database of references to journal articles, with an emphasis on clinical medicine, dentistry and biomedical research. Also covers nursing, chemistry and pharmacology, biological and physical sciences, microbiology, nutrition, health care delivery and social sciences. 1946 to date.

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Scopus is a large multidisciplinary bibliographic and citation database with extensive journal coverage especially in science, technology and medicine and is expanding its coverage of the social sciences. Citation coverage is back to 1996. Bibliographic coverage generally reaches further back but is variable.

TRIP is a clinical search engine providing a single search interface to a large number of web resources, which contain high quality evidence for answering clinical questions, including journals, synopses, online textbooks and systematic reviews. As well as research evidence we also allow clinicians to search across other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.

The UK Medical Heritage Library brings together books and pamphlets from 10 research libraries in the UK, focused on the 19th and early 20th century history of medicine and related disciplines. This ongoing digitisation project is funded by Jisc and the Wellcome Library. The UK Medical Heritage Library is a sub-set of the Medical Heritage Library (https://archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary).
UK Medical Heritage Library.

UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource used by clinicians to make point-of-care decisions.

Users searching UpToDate will find:
Synthesized topic reviews that cover major medical specialties, symptoms, diagnoses, tests, and treatments, written, in short, concise paragraphs.
Drug Monographs
Drug Interactions
Society Guidelines
Access graded treatment recommendations, utilizing the GRADE system.
Access Clinical Calculators and a Drug Interactions Database are available.
Print patient education information.
Updated approximately every 4 months.

Initial registration on campus required. Once registered, your account must be revalidated every 90 days to remain active.
If you are a student studying remotely and unable to do the initial registration on campus please log in here then go to Register.

NHS access off campus is for NHS staff with a King's affiliate account only, due to licence restrictions

Web of Science provides access to the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and examines proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. It is a gateway to:
Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present)
Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present)
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (1990-present)
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (1990-present)
Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015-present)
BIOSIS Citation Index (1969-2008)
KCI-Korean Journal Database
Medline
Russian Science Citation Index
SciELO Citation Index

Full-text online access to selected Ovid ebooks.

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ClinicalKey Student is an interactive education platform and King's has access to over 240 e-textbooks in Nursing and Medicine.

Ebook Central is an ebook platform. King’s have purchased over 21,200 titles covering a range of subjects and provides further access to over 176,350 titles.

EBSCO (formerly Netlibrary) is a provider of online ebooks. King’s have purchased over 800 titles covering a range of subjects. These are listed in the Library catalogue. EBSCO also provides access to over 3,000 free titles, mainly in the humanities, including many literary classics. Most of these are not currently listed in the Library catalogue.
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Elsevier eLibrary provides multi-user digital access to a collection of medical, pharmacology and dentistry books.

Oxford Medicine Online is a collection of online medical resources which cover every stage in a medical career. The collection covers prestigious digital medical resources from Oxford University Press, including world-renowned titles covering a variety of specialty areas ranging from anaesthesiology to nursing, and from dentistry to neurology. Available on the Oxford Academic platform, content is easy to navigate, accessible on any device, and supports a myriad of tools and features, images and videos, diagrams and charts, and more.

King's has access to over 1700 books including Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, Oxford Textbook of Medicine and Oxford Clinical Guidelines.

Taylor & Francis eBooks provides access to content in Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Built Environment, STM and Law content from publishers that include Routledge, Psychology Press and Focal Press
Please note: King’s does not have access to all books on this platform