Background Information
- LWW Health LibraryIncludes sections for Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech Language Hearing, Exercise Science, Exercise Science, Pharmacy, and Medical Education. To print pages and use self-assessment tools register an account with LWW Health Library
- AccessMedicineApproximately 40 e-books, including a clinical library (Harrison's Online, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, and more), Lange Educational Library, a USMLE self-assessment tool, 50+ clinical cases, and various study materials including flashcards, notes, and multiple-choice review questions.
- Books@OVIDIncludes full text, references, updates, and graphics from several respected texts in medicine, nursing, and pharmacy. Search (or browse) one textbook, browse by subject area, or choose "search all". Color diagrams, charts, and illustrations are available as thumbnails or full graphics.
- Sage Research MethodsSAGE Research Methods Online is a web-based research methods tool created to support researchers and students as they explore relevant content across the social and behavioural sciences, covering quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods.
- ClinicalKeyClinicalKey provides access to FirstConsult, top journals, best-selling medical and surgical books, thousands of medical videos, millions of images, and much more content across 12 distinct content types.
- DynamedIncludes overviews and drug therapy recommendations for various medical conditions, drug information, and a drug interaction checker.
- Merck Manual of Diagnosis & TherapyIncludes diagnostic and therapeutic information in internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics, gynecology, dermatology, pharmacology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, rehabilitation, and a number of special subjects. Available online.
- MedlinePlus (Consumer Health)Freely-searchable consumer health information site linking to simple overviews, dictionaries, directories, organizations and news for ~750 topics.
- PEDroPEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. PEDro is a free database of over 23,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
- PhysiopediaThe free comprehensive online reference written by physiotherapists for physiotherapists.
- SpeechBITECurated speech pathology intervention studies to support evidence based practice.
Evidence Based Practice Reviews
Evidence based Physical Therapy - Reviews and Practice Guidelines
- Rehab+Rehab+ is created and produced by McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit to provide access to current best evidence from research, tailored to one's own health care interests, to support evidence-based clinical decisions.
- National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC)Includes REHABDATA the leading literature database on disability and rehabilitation. The collection spans 1956 to the present and includes reports, studies, and papers submitted by projects funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, articles published in rehabilitation-related periodicals; and commercially published books
- Dynamed This link opens in a new windowA point-of-care reference tool containing clinically-oriented summaries for 3,200+ topics.
- REHABDATALiterature database of NARIC
- EBM Reviews (Ovid) This link opens in a new windowOne-stop searching of 7 evidence-based medicine databases in the Cochrane Library.
- CMA Infobase: Clinical Practice GuidelinesCanadian clinical practice guidelines
- StrokEngine InterventionsStroke Engine has been developed with the support of the Canadian Stroke Network to support the use of evidence-based stroke rehabilitation in clinical practice.
Clinical trials
- CENTRAL Cochrane Registry of Clinical TrialsCitations to controlled trials identified by the contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration
Search Aids
- PICO Search Plan and Evidence-Based Practice Clinical Question WorksheetEditable worksheet to plan and record your search strategies.
- PICO Evidence-Based Practice Clinical Question / Search Plan WorksheetUse to record your search strategies.