Medical Library

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.

Watts Cat ~ Our Library Catalog

Health Topics from Medline Plus

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Important Links:

PATIENT Quick Links

SENIORS' Quick Links

QUALITY & SAFETY RESOURCES

CLINICAL GUIDELINES

CULTURAL COMPETENCY RESOURCES

EVIDENCE BASED RESOURCES

HEALTH LITERACY RESOURCES

PDA RESOURCES

FULL-TEXT Quick Links:
ACP Journal Club (On-site access)
ADHD Report (On-site access)
American Family Physician (On-site access)
American Journal of Sports Medicine (On-site access)
Annals of Family Medicine
Annals of General Psychiatry
Annals of Internal Medicine
Annals of Long-Term Care
Archives of Internal Medicine (On-site access)
Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Password required)
BMC Cancer  - Open Access through PubMedCentral
Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology News (On-site access)
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
Environment of Care News (On-site access)
Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, 4th edition
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Open Access)
Health Affairs (On-site access)
Hospital Infection Control (Password required)
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association (On-site access)
JAMIA: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (On-site access)
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (On-site access)
Joint Commission Perspectives (On-site access)
Joint Commission Perspectives on Patient Safety (On-site access)
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (On-site access)
Journal of Clinical Oncology
The Lancet (Password required)
Medical Economics
MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
Neonatal Network (Password required)
New England Journal of Medicine (On-site access)
Spine (On-site access)

Directory of Open Access Journals - Health Sciences
FreeMedicalJournals.com
Oxford Open  ~ Open Access Titles from Oxford Journals
PLoS  ~ Public Library of Science  (Choose PLoS Medicine)
PubMed  Bookshelf  ~ Biomedical Books
PubMedCentral  ~ Life Sciences Journals

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.

CLINICAL TOOLS:
CareNotes(On-site access)   
Dosing Tools (On-site access)    
DrugDex  (On-site access)

DynaMed  ~ Evidence Based Clinical Point of Care resource (On-site access  )
DynaMed for PDA now available. Contact the librarian
DynaMed  ~ Dr. Alper's Useful Links for Patient Care

Krames  (Password required)    
Medical Abbreviations - Neil M. Davis 12th Edition (On-site access)
MedScape  (Free registration required)  
Micromedex (On-site access)
PoisinDex  (On-site access)

MICROMEDEX:

CareNotes(On-site access)   
Dosing Tools (On-site access)    
DrugDex  (On-site access) 

PoisinDex    (On-site access)

A note for area health professionals ~ Please contact the director  with your suggestions. We are interested in hearing about resources and services you'd like us to add. Thank you for visiting.