Books and background
Journal literature
Guidelines and point-of-care
Drug information
Research grab bag
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To find pharmacy ebooks from UBC Library's website, these are the two best places to look.
What are Summon and the pharmacy research guide?
100
Medical database of ~25 million citations, ~5700 biomedical journals considered the best starting point for searching for pharmaceutical literature.
What is Medline on Ovid ....OR PubMed?
100
You can find clinical practice guidelines from the US, Canada, the UK and more at this US government website.
What is guidelines.gov?
100
This key Canadian drug information source includes an interaction checker from Lexi-Comp.
What is RxTx?
100
When conducting a lit search for a grant or a systematic review, be sure to consult with this person.
Who is the pharmacy librarian?
200
Abbreviated PICO, this is a good way to frame your question before a search.
What is Patient-Intervention-Comparison-Outcome (also acceptable: Population or Problem)
200
This European database is another excellent place to look for drug journal literature.
What is EMBASE?
200
This point of care tool has been shown in some studies to be the most "up to date."
What is DynaMed?
200
This useful text found in Books@Ovid provides guidance on drug use for pregnant and nursing women.
What is Briggs?
200
This website lets you search for ongoing and completed clinical trials from a variety of sources.
What is OpenTrials?
300
When UBC Library doesn't have an article or book you need, you can use this service to borrow it.
What is Interlibrary Loan?
300
This is the full name for the subject terms that experts use to describe articles in Medline.
What is Medical Subject Headings?
300
This UK-based point of care tool is easy to read, frequently updated and all authors and peer reviewers are identified for each article.
What is BMJ Best Practice?
300
This is a well-known, comprehensive text on drug interactions, herbal medicines, pesticides and drugs of abuse
What is Stockley’s Drug Interactions?
300
Research method focusing on research question, aims to identify, appraise and synthesize high quality papers with minimal bias
What is a systematic review?
400
This collection of ebooks includes Harrison's.
What is AccessMedicine?
400
You can use these features to narrow your database search in several ways - by study type, by language, age of patients, etc...
What are limits? (or filters)
400
This is the core Canadian guidelines site.
What is CPG Infobase?
400
If you need to find out whether a drug depletes certain vitamins or minerals, this is a good place to check.
What is Natural Medicines?
400
Quantitative method of pooling results from clinical trials to estimate treatment effects
What is a meta-analysis?
500
UBC Library's subscription to AHFS Drug Information is found in this database.
What is MedicinesComplete?
500
This feature in Ovid databases lets you search for a subject and its narrower terms at the same time.
What is explode?
500
This database contains guidelines, articles, regulatory information, a PICO search box, and much more. Some features are only available to members.
What is TRIP Database?
500
This database combines journal articles, books such as the Harriet Lane Handbook, and drug monographs from Clinical Pharmacology.
What is ClinicalKey?
500
Technique used in clinical trials to allocate patients to one or more drugs or treatments
What is randomization?
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