Research Guides: Hospice & Palliative Medicine: Quick Links

Textbooks

AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to medical textbooks, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessments, case files, time-saving diagnostic and point-of-care tools.

5-Minute Consult This link opens in a new window
Provides access to information on the diagnosis, treatment, medications, and follow-up of diseases and conditions, as well as related illnesses typically associated with certain diseases and conditions.
UpToDate This link opens in a new window
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Point-of-care tool designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice. Medical calculators, drug interactions, and patient education materials are included.

ProQuest Health & Medicine This link opens in a new window
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Search 13 ProQuest health and medicine databases at once.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
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Comprises more than 35 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Be sure to use this link to see full-text options available through Madigan Library.
SAGE Journals This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage of peer-reviewed, scholarly journals in social sciences, business, humanities, science, medicine, dentistry, radiology, nursing, emergency medicine, biology, materials science, engineering, and sports medicine.

National Home and Hospice Care Survey
Provides descriptive information on home health and hospice agencies, their staffs, their services, and their patients.
National Nursing Home Survey
Series of nationally representative sample surveys of United States nursing homes, their services, their staff, and their residents.
National Study of Long-Term Care Providers
Monitors trends in the supply, provision, and use of the major sectors of paid, regulated long-term care services. Uses survey data on the residential care community and adult day services sectors, and administrative data on the home health, nursing home, and hospice sectors.