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HMC Pharmacy Resources

In order to use resources limited to UW users from off-campus, you must first be recognized as being affiliated with the UW.

Before attempting to access restricted resources, click on the Off-Campus Access link at the top right of any HealthLinks page.

Enter your UW NetID name and password (the same that you use for UW email). Note that you must click on Off-Campus Access even if you have already logged in to MyUW.

Identifying Journal Articles

  • PubMed Click for help
    Refer to PubMed at the UW help page.
  • Search PubMed PubMed searches broadly for biomedical articles since 1964. A subset of journals are linked to the online article subscribed to by UW. Click for help

    Limited to English, last 5 years, RCT's

  • EMBASE EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmacological database indexing 5,000 journals from over 70 countries. Topics covered include drugs and pharmacology,  clinical and experimental medicine, basic biological research, health policy and management, public, occupational and environmental health, substance abuse, psychiatry, forensic science, and biomedical engineering and instrumentation. 1988-present. Click for help UW IP
    (Ovid) EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmacological database indexing 5,000 journals from over 70 countries.
  • Web of Science UW IP
    Multidisciplinary database covering journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, with searchable cited references.

Locating Journal Articles

Finding Practice Guidelines

  • National Guideline Clearinghouse Click for help
    Public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is sponsored by AHRQ in partnership with the AMA and the American Association of Health Plans
  • UpToDate UW IP
  • Google
    Find websites of organizations that might have publications outlining their guidelines, ex. Amercan Diabetes Association.

Keeping Up with the Literature

  • My NCBI
    Register for a My NCBI account.
    Run your search.
    Click on Save Search next to the Search Box.
    Name your search and click on Yes for "Would you like to receive email updates of new search results?"
    Select your preferences for email update options.
  • Create an alert in EMBASE Click for help
    Create your best search, then click on the "Save Search/Alert" icon.
    You will be asked to log in to a Personal Account before going further.
    Enter your Personal Account Name and Password (or create one if this is your first time) and click on the "Login" button.
    Select "AutoAlert (SDI)" under the pulldown menu for "Type."
    Make your selections from the menu presented and click on the "Save" button.
    If you would like to create additional searches to save, clear (delete) the previous one(s) before creating a new search.
    To manage (edit or delete) your AutoAlerts, simply log onto any Ovid database, click on the "Personal Account" button, login and then click on the "Saved Searches/Alerts" button.

Synthesized Literature (Structured Abstracts, Critically Appraised Topics)

Miscellaneous

Provided by Pharmacy Interest Group: Selected news and other items of interest to Pharmacists.

  • ADRs to antibiotics estimated to account for 140,000 ER visits per year in US
    ...according to a study by the CDC. Article to appear in Clin Infect Dis Sept 15, 2008 issue....
  • Trasylol limited to investigational use
    Read the FDA statement May 14, 2008 Read the article: Aprotinin versus Lysine Analogues in High-Risk Cardiac Surgery In patients undergoing high-risk cardiac surgery, aprotinin was somewhat more effective than either aminocaproic acid or tranexamic acid in reducing massive perioperative...
  • Pharmaceuticals in drinking water
    From the NY Times, Mar 10, 2008 Drug Traces Common in Tap Water "A vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones -- have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41...
  • Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs
    A student brought it to my attention that Consumer Reports was now including drug reviews. After the initial eyebrow raising, I went to the public library and had a look. Turns out that they have a new 'health' section with...
  • ACCORD Study Halted
    From Medscape (must register for free account): The Day After: Experts Puzzled Over Increased Death Rate in ACCORD Experts within and outside of the ACCORD trial are equally flummoxed by the finding that the group receiving intensive glucose lowering showed...

MedWatch Feed

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