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The Campbell F. Watts, M.D. and Doris J. Watts Medical Library
& Patient Resource Center   

Patient Centered. Evidence-Based. Spiritually Grounded.


Watts Medical Library & Patient Resource Center provides library services that support excellence in patient care, health education, hospital administration, and medical research. Our work is guided by the spirit of the Sisters of Mercy. The library is open to the public and area health professionals.

 

2008 Especially for You Honors  in recognition of Dr. Campbell Watts.

 

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QUICK LINKS:


***NEW*** ELECTRONIC BOOKS  ***NEW***

 CANCER RESOURCE PAGE  SENIORS' QUICK LINKS
 PATIENT QUICK LINKS  EVIDENCE BASED RESOURCES
 HEALTH LITERACY RESOURCES  QUALITY & SAFETY RESOURCES
 CULTURAL COMPETENCY RESOURCES  PDA RESOURCES
 CLINICAL GUIDELINES  

 

SEARCH THE LITERATURE:


Medline via OVID (On-site access)   - Abstracts of articles from the medical literature.

EbscoHost(On-site access)   - CINAHL is here. Full-text articles and abstracts from the nursing, allied health, and academic literature.

FirstSearch (On-site access)   -  Abstracts of books and articles across many disciplines.

GoogleScholar  - Verify your article citation.

MDConsult  (Password required)

PubMed - Medline via the public interface. A service of the National Library of Medicine indexing over 15 million biomedical articles from Medline dating back to the 1950's.

PubMedTutorial - Learn effective strategies for searching the medical literature indexed in this publicly accessible database.

CitationMachine - Citation assistance for research papers.

 

FULL-TEXT Quick Links:

ON-SITE ACCESS:  PASSWORD PROTECTED:
ACP Journal Club Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
American Family Physician Hospital Infection Control
Annals of Family Medicine Neonatal Network
Annals of General Psychiatry
Annals of Internal Medicine  
Annals of Long-Term Care  
Archives of Internal Medicine  
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine  
Environment of Care News  
Health Affairs
Hospitals & Health Networks (H&HN) OPEN ACCESS TITLES:
JAMA: JournaloftheAmericanMedicalAssociation BMC Cancer
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety Directory of Open Access Journals - Health Sciences
Joint Commission Perspectives Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, 4th edition
Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry & Neurology FreeMedicalJournals.com
Medical Economics MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
New England Journal of Medicine Oxford Open
Ostomy Wound Management       Public Library of Science
Spine PubMed  Bookshelf
  PubMedCentral 
 


 
 
 CLINICAL TOOLS:
 

Clinical Pharmacology         
DynaMed  Evidence Based Clinical Point of Care resource (On-site access)
DynaMed  Dr. Alper's Useful Links for Patient Care
Krames  (Password required)    
Medical Abbreviations - Neil M. Davis 13th Edition (On-site access)
MedScape  (Free registration required)

Mosby's Nursing Skills

**DynaMed for PDA now available. Contact the librarian for account information.


MICROMEDEX:

CareNotes(On-site access)   

Dosing Tools (On-site access)   

DrugDex  (On-site access) 

PoisinDex    (On-site access)   

 

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