Print Books

• How to Find Print Books

E-Books

• From our navigation column, drop down the Quick Links for access to these collections:
  • Books@Ovid
  • MDConsult
  • Stat!Ref
  • UpToDate (available on campus only)
    
    
• Tufts E-Resources Finder
  • Browse sections for Clinical Science, Dentistry, or Medicine.
    • Click on a subject (for instance, Evidence-Based Medicine) and browse the blue bars for a relevant text.
    • Click a book's title link and enter your Tufts ID (991#).
  • Search by keyword or a known title.
    • Sample: Burket's Oral Medicine Diagnosis & Treatment
    • Sample: Clinical Evidence
    • TIP: harrisons would retrieve the link to Books@Ovid for Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.
    • TIP: stat!ref should retrieve links to most of its books.
• Tufts Catalog
  • Click the URL in the Electronic Access box, then enter your Tufts UTLN.
  • To find full-text books, perform a keyword search with your topic and electronic resource.
    • Sample: (dental or dentist**) and electronic resource
    • tip: double asterisk retrieves various endings.
    • tip: parentheses allow for multiple synonyms for a concept.
• VIP Care
  • tip: read about its links to evidence for patient care on TUSK.
  • tip: search TUSK by symptom or diagnosis and limit to URL as a media type.
  • tip: browse by clerkship and drill down to e-book chapters and evidence.
    

Databases

• ACP PIER: The Physicians' Information and Education Resource
  Produced by the American College of Physicians, this evidence-based collection of disease modules can be searched, or browsed alphabetically or by organ system on Stat!Ref.
• EBM Databases, Limits, Publication & Study Types
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man: OMIM
  The National Center for Biotechnology Information's catalog of human genes and genetic disorders contains clinical synopses and daily-updated references.
• Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed are customized for Tufts' holdings.
  The Medline database covers the medical and dental journal literature and contains over 17 million citations dating back to the 1950's. Citations are indexed using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
  • MeSH for medically-compromised patients
    • Abnormalities
    • Dental Care for Chronically Ill
    • Immunocompromised Host
    • For a particular disease, enter it, and select the best MeSH for it on the Mapping Display. To see broader or narrower MeSH in its tree, click the blue link and check the explode box for the broadest relevant MeSH. To go further up the tree, click Full tree (top left).
  • Useful MeSH for Evidence-Based Medicine
  • MeSH subheadings for disease mechanisms
    • Genetics
    • Immunology
    • Physiopathology
      
  • MESH subheadings for therapeutics
    • Diet Therapy
    • Drug therapy
    • Rehabilitation
    • Radiotherapy
    • Therapy
    • Surgery

Websites

• Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
  This NIH site lists its meta-analyses called Evidence Reports by topic, system, and report number. See especially Oral and Gastrointestinal Disorders.
  
  
• Evidence-Based Dentistry: Research Guide
  
  
• Evidence-Based Medicine: Research Guide
  
  
• MEDLINEplus
  National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine
  This consumer-oriented guide to health information contains information on most developmental diseases.
  
  
• National Center for Health Statistics
  
  
• National Guideline Clearinghouse