Welcome
Welcome to the Peoria Residency Guide. This guide's purpose is to give you a starting point of accessing evidence for clinical decision making and research information resources. Please check out the subject tabs for disciplinary-specific information. If you don't see your discipline, please contact the Librarians at LHS-Peoria for further support.
Point of Care Information Resources
Evidence-based point of care
- Isabel Clinical Decision Support
Physicians around the world use Isabel to help construct or broaden a differential diagnosis. By entering the information normally captured in a patient workup, Isabel provides physicians with a list of possible diagnoses to help them construct their thinking and make an accurate final diagnosis quickly and easily at the point of care.
Peer-reviewed Clinical Decision Support
Drug Information Resource
Research Databases
The following databases will lead you to scholarly articles for use in clinical care and research.
EBM Resources
- BMJ Best Practice EBM ToolkitLearn about EBM and current tools to use for clinical practice.
- JAMAevidence This link opens in a new windowEvidence-based medicine (EBM) integrates the best available evidence with clinical experience that allows clinicians to recommend, and their patients to make, informed choices consistent with their values. JAMAevidence helps decision makers identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care. Includes captions and transcripts.
- ACP Journal ClubACP Journal Club summarizes the best new evidence for internal medicine from over 120 clinical journals. Research staff and clinical editors rigorously assess the scientific merit of the medical literature as it is published and a worldwide panel of over 5000 physicians assesses the clinical relevance and newsworthiness of rigorous studies.
- Cochrane Clinical AnswersCochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs) provide a readable, digestible, clinically-focused entry point to rigorous research from Cochrane Reviews.
- ACFP Tools for PracticeEvidence-based topic summaries on common clinical questions seen in general practice. Prepared by the Alberta College of Family Phycisians.
- PubMed Clinical Queries"This tool uses predefined filters to help you quickly refine PubMed searches on clinical or disease-specific topics." [National Library of Medicine]
- Trip Pro
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to find high quality research evidence to support clinical practice and care. It simultaneously searches evidence-based sources of systematic reviews, practice guidelines, MEDLINE's Clinical Queries, medical image databases, e-textbooks, and patient information.
Note: You must download the Cisco Anyconnect VPN to access Trip Pro Database from off campus. Here are instructions for Windows, MAC, Linux, Android, and IOS users:
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PubMed@UIC
RefWorks
The new version of RefWorks has increased capabilities like importing pdf documents and a Google docs add-on. For more information, see our RefWorks page.
Related Guides
LHS-Peoria Homepage
Access the Library of the Health Sciences - Peoria Homepage for access to more resources and services.