Guides: Physician Assistant: Find Articles (Databases)

links to Best Bets - evidenced based practice literature databases for medicine and other health sciences
links to other select databases and resources (AccessMedicine, UpToDate, etc.)
instructions for finding full articles by article or journal title
link to database and resource Help Research Guide
link to interlibrary loan form
information about scholarly vs popular sources

Best Bets for PAs

PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites

CINAHL Ultimate
A research tool for nursing and allied health professionals and students. Full text for more than 1200 journals and indexing for another 5000 journals. Contains PA journals

Cochrane Library
Contains the following evidence-based medicine databases:
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews) Includes Complete Reviews and Protocols. [FULL TEXT]
The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
Cochrane Clinical Answers - provides short answers, and data for the outcomes from the Cochrane Review deemed most relevant
Health, Medicine, & Nursing Databases [ProQuest]
Searches the following ProQuest databases simultaneously: Consumer Health; Health & Medical Collection; Healthcare Administration; Nursing & Allied Health Premium; Public Health. Covers medical science, nursing, allied health, public health and pharmacology with full text scholarly journals, magazines, trade journals,books, reports, working papers, conference & proceedings, news and more.

5MinuteConsult
Point of care clinical information
AccessMedicine
AccessMedicine provides access to various titles from the best minds in medicine, updated content, images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, and diagnostic tools.
Up to Date
This resource presents current clinical information and recommendations on patient care and treatment. Includes evidence based physician-authored articles and patient education resources to aid in clinical decision-making.
Users must register for an UTD account. You will be required to re-verify your account every 90 days. To re-verify, access UTD from here, then log into the UTD account you created. For now, this needs to be done from off campus.

Nursing & Medical Databases
Links to the medical and nursing tab of the Help Guide. Guide contains database help, tutorials (includes EndNote help), and handouts.