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ProQuest
Jennifer Jackson, Regional Sales Manager, ProQuest
ProQuest Collections
• ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
• ProQuest Psychology Journals• ProQuest Health Management• ProQuest Medical Library• ASSIA
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
• 650+ Full Text Journals• Over 11,000 Full Text Nursing
Dissertations• Joanna Briggs Institute• Culture Vision• Nursing Procedure Videos• Study Path’s
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
Joanna Briggs InstituteSystematic ReviewsBest Practice Information SheetsEvidence SummariesRAPidSUMMARI
Cultural Competency ReportsCurrently includes reports for 30 ethnicities and 11 religionsUpdated monthly
Nursing Procedure VideosFrom MedCom-Trainex
Nursing ReferenceFrom Springer Publishing Company
ProQuest Psychology Journals
• Over 540 Full Text Journals• 4,000+ Full Text Dissertations.• Charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and
other graphical elements essential to psychological research.
• Coverage of related disciplines include genetics, psychology of business and economics, communication, criminology, addiction, neurology, social welfare, and more.
ProQuest Health Management
• Over 640 Full Text Journals• 4,500+ Full Text Dissertations• Key areas covered include; Hospitals;
Insurance; Law; Statistics; Business management; Personnel management; Ethics; Health Economics and Public Health Administration
ProQuest Medical Library
• Over 880+ Full Text journals incl. The Lancet.
• Medical Evidence Matters• Pocket Medicine Clinical
Guidance
ProQuest Medical Library
Medical Evidence Matters• Evidence-based search engine gratis upgrade
available for customers of ProQuest Medical Library
Clinical guidance from PocketMedicine• Clinical references – guide of treatment options• Treatment strategies – focus on management of
disease• Checklists – helps users make or confirm
diagnoses
ProQuest Medical Evidence Matters
• Medical Evidence Matters allows you to assess therapy options for known medical conditions by comparing outcomes from the peer-reviewed literature. Medical Evidence Matters supports researchers, clinicians, librarians, and decision-makers in finding the best evidence for medical decisions.
Simple ‘ask a question’ interface
Help, with detailed FAQ available on every screen
Get started with an animated demo
Use the drop down boxes to select the disease
Click on the ‘more’ link; a pop-up box will appear
Expand each term using the ‘+’ icon
Click on the term to add to your question
Select the outcome most appropriate for a specific patient
A summary of the question appears; click on ‘change’ if you wish to modify your question
Click on the ‘+’ icon to expand and see a list of top results for your question
Click on the ‘+’ icon to expand and see a list of top results for your question
Results are listed according to a ‘pyramid of evidence’ with randomised clinical trials at the top.
Types of study with no results / data for the specific outcome you have chosen are greyed out
Click on the hyperlinked reference…
… to see the data extracted from the article
Scroll down for an overview of how the trial or research was carried out
Scroll down for an overview of how the trial or research was carried out
As well as looking at the top results, an at-a-glance overview of all results is available in simple graph format
Results are displayed according to the type of research, with randomised clinical trials at the top of the “pyramid of evidence”
Hover your mouse over the graph for a synopsis of results; the darker the box, the more data is available
Click on a box to see what research has been done with a given outcome…
….this takes you to the summary for each set of research data; again, click on the hyperlink to see a summary
Detailed explanations and FAQ are available from all pages
ASSIA
• ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts on the Web is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional.
• ASSIA currently contains records from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries, including the UK and US
• Update Frequency - Monthly, with more than 1500 records added per update.
• Over 441,302 records as of January 2009
In conclusion
• ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source• ProQuest Psychology Journals• ProQuest Health Management• ProQuest Medical Library• ASSIA
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