Beaumont Library provides three point-of-care clinical decision support resources:
BMJ Best Practice (provided by HSE Library) is ranked one of the best clinical decision support tools for health professionals and provides step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, treatment and prevention, with the latest content in over 30 specialties, calculators, and patient information summaries.
DynaMed (provided by RCSI Library) provides over 100,000 expert clinical evidence and guidance summaries in a user-friendly format to deliver accurate answers fast at the point-of-care.
UpToDate (provided by HSE Library) is a trusted expert evidence-based clinical decision support tool.
To access these resources please go to hselibrary.ie and login with your Beaumont Library OpenAthens account and select the resource you require. Some resources have a direct link below or do not require a login. Register for an OpenAthens login here.
BMJ Best Practice
CINAHL Complete (Ebsco) – nursing and allied health database
Cochrane - systematic reviews in healthcare
DynaMed
EMBASE (Ovid) – medicine and pharmacy database - see training video
ERIC - education database
Health Business Elite (Ebsco) – healthcare management database
JAMA – American Medical Association journals
Medicines Complete - pharmacy resources including BNF, Stockleys, Palliative Care Formulary
Medline (Ebsco) – medicine database (same content as PubMed)
Pedro - physiotherapy database
Proquest Heath Research Premium - healthcare journals
PsycINFO (Ebsco) – psychology/psychiatry database
PubMed (NLM) – medicine database
Web of Science - multidisciplinary databases on the sciences and social science
Wiley Online Library - e-journals, e-books and reference works
Clinical Guidelines provide expert guidance on diagnosis, treatment, and prevention in healthcare. In addition to these collections, practitioners should search for guidelines provided by professional organisations within their own clinical specialty.
National Clinical Guidelines Ireland
NICE - guidance from the UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence
SIGN - Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
The Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) - guidelines and their application into practice
Cochrane Collaboration - Cochrane systematic reviews
Campbell Collaboration - Social science research
TO REGISTER FOR YOUR OPENATHENS ACCOUNT
Go to hselibrary.ie and click the dropdown menu on Login/Register
Select Register- Section 38/Partners
Fill in the registration form in full:
Select Beaumont Hospital for your library service and for your location.
Enter your Beaumont email - your account cannot be activated without a Beaumont email address.
Enter your Department.
Click SUBMIT
You will receive an email with a new username and a link to create a new password for your account. Copy and paste the link into a browser, and follow the instructions to create a new password.
Accounts expire after one year and can be renewed if you have provided your Beaumont email and Department and phone number in this registration form.
TO LOGIN TO THE RESOURCES
Go to hselibrary.ie and click on Login/Register
Select Login and select Partner Organisation Account and use your new login.
Scroll down to select the resource you require.
Contact Beaumont Library at bhlibrary@rcsi.ie if you have any questions.