NLH Healthcare Databases Simple Search

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• NLH Healthcare Databases Simple Search

Created by Jane Tatlow as part of the NLH Search
2.0 Representatives Group. Last updated 15.08.08
For Advanced Searching use NLH Healthcare
Databases Advanced Search
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Go to the NLH Homepage www.library.nhs.uk and
select the Healthcare Databases link. Currently
labelled Books, Journals and Healthcare
Databases
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You MUST log in with a valid NHS Athens ID to
search the full range of databases. The next few
slides look at what is available without an NHS
Athens ID, as shown. Later slides look at what
is available with a NHS Athens username.
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Links to My Journals and E-books

• Below the list of databases you will also find
  links to
• My Journals, A searchable database of journals
  with links to nationally purchased collections.
  Locally purchased journals will also be visible
  if you are logged in with your NHS area.
• E-books linking to the national collection of
  online books. Some local collections of online
  books may also be included.
• Links to resources useful for critically
  appraising research articles.

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Select a search option (Title or Title and text).
Type in a keyword or phrase
Finally select SEARCH
Your search can include single words or phrases.
Phrases should be entered in double quotes, eg.
myocardial infarction. You can also combine
terms, some examples might be pediatric
cardiology or paediatric cardiology stroke
and aspirin
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Without the authority of your NHS Athens ID
Simple Search will only search articles within
the PubMed database. Links to online article
content may require an Athens log-in.

• PubmedPubMed is a service of the U.S. National
  Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million
  citations from MEDLINE and other life science
  journals for biomedical articles back to the
  1950s.

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The number of records found and your search
statement is displayed above the results.
Some documents may have the full document details
available online for free. Select the blue links
next to the suppliers name below Full Text to
see the full document.
Each result is displayed with a brief reference
including the original source database.
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It is possible to sort results into different
orders if there are less than 500 results. Use
the drop down options in the SORT box.
Selecting More detail or the title will display
further information.
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More details includes a simple form enabling you
to email the details of this citation to yourself
or a colleague.
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Links to free online documents are also displayed
in the details and will be included if you send
this record by email.
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To run another search type another keyword or
phrase into the Start a new search box, then
select SEARCH.
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• Simple Searching in NLH Healthcare Databases
  with your NHS Athens ID

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To search the full range of NLH Health Care
Databases you will need to log in with an NHS
Athens username and password.
If you havent already registered for an NHS
Athens username and password contact your library
or use the self registration link.
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Note the HELLO message when you are logged in
with your NHS Athens.
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Once you have logged on with your Athens
username, select Books, Journals and Healthcare
Databases.
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Your NHS Athens ID will give you access to eight
health related databases

• Allied and Complementary Medicine (AMED)
  1985-Covers occupational therapy, physiotherapy,
  rehabilitation, plus alternative and
  complementary medicine acupuncture,
  chiropractic, homeopathy, yoga, hypnosis.
• British Nursing Index (BNI) 1994- This UK
  focused database covers general nursing as well
  as the specific nursing areas covering AE,
  neonatal, breast cancer, theatres and
  orthopaedics.
• Cumulative Index of Nursing Allied Health
  (CINAHL) 1982-A US database covering all aspects
  of nursing and allied health. Subjects covered
  include optometry, radiologic technology, speech
  and language pathology, nutrition. Contains
  journals, theses and pamphlets.
• EMBASE 1974-With particular emphasis on
  European sources, this database covers the whole
  field of medicine. Drugs, pharmacology and
  substance abuse are particularly well covered.
• Health Business EliteContains articles from
  within 480 journals detailing all aspects of
  healthcare administration and other non-clinical
  aspects of health care institution management.
• HMIC Health Management Information Consortium
  1979-This compiles data from both the Department
  of Health Library and Information Services and
  Kings Fund Information and Library Service.
• MEDLINE 1950-At this level of search Medline
  will be from PubMed. This is a large US source of
  medical information. Other subjects include
  dentistry, veterinary medicine, medical
  psychology, genetics and advanced nursing
  practice.
• PsycINFO 1806-Includes international coverage of
  literature on Psychology and allied fields

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If you log in with an NHS Athens username your
results will also include

• Links to the full text of articles online from
  journal collections purchased by the NHS
  nationally and locally.
• Links to show which journals are held in print
  collections in local health libraries

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To do a Simple Search across all the databases,
type your query topics into the search box and
use Select All. Then click on SEARCH
NOTE You are Searching PubMed in this Simple
Search
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• Typing two words will retrieve results that
  contain both words. Entering cbt depression will
  retrieve the same results as entering cbt AND
  depression.
• Phrases should be entered within double quotes
  for example, cognitive behaviour therapy
• You may also use the combine function OR to
  search for alternative words or spellings. Some
  examples are
• pediatric OR paediatricstroke OR cva
• NOT is also available but should be used with
  caution. For example diabetes NOT adult would
  exclude articles that were about clinical trials
  involving both adults and children, not just
  those involving adults.

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Results appear as earlier. Selecting the blue
full text link will display a free online copy of
the article to read, save or print. You may be
prompted for your NHS Athens again.
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• There are over 1000 online journals available to
  NHS staff which have been purchased by NHS
  England. Local health library services have added
  to this total. This includes many top titles such
  as JAMA and British Medical Journal.
• Your NHS Athens username and password is the key
  to accessing these journals and articles.
• Direct access to a searchable index is available
  via My Journals, http//journals.library.nhs.uk
  or from the link on the NLH homepage

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For more complex searching we recommend the
Healthcare Databases Advanced Search. Use the
links illustrated below on the results page or
the home page
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TroubleshootingIf you run a search but dont
find what you are looking for

• If you searched for keywords just in the title
  and retrieved too few results, try running it
  again using Title and text
• If you want to search for a particular phrase use
  double-quote marks eg primary care.
• Think about using similar or alternative terms.
  Use OR in capital letters to combine your terms,
  e.g. stroke OR cerebral vascular accident.
• Think about american/british spellings eg.
  pediatric OR paediatric.
• Focus your search results by using AND, e.g.
  (panic attack OR anxiety OR stress) AND (CBT OR
  cognitive behaviour therapy). Remember to use
  brackets to group similar concepts.
• Use the wildcard symbol to find groups of
  words, for example nurs will find nurse, nurses,
  nursing and nurse-led.

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For more detail about Advanced Search for
healthcare databases, use the link below NLH
Healthcare Databases Advanced Search
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Keep up-to-date with newly published information
by using the news feeds Then use the
My Library section of NLH or your own RSS reader
to view the latest news. Look for further
information from the News link or the NLH Home
page.

• Queries and feedbackIf you have any further
  queries or want to feed back about the resources,
  please use this link to the NLH service desk
  http//www.library.nhs.uk/about/feedback.aspx
• NLH Helpdesknlhenquiries_at_institute.nhs.uk
• or contact your local health library
• Other guides in this series
• Using the 6 NLH resources an overview
• Using NLH Evidence Based Reviews
• Using NLH Specialist Libraries
• Using NLH Guidance
• Using NLH Images
• Using NLH For Patients
• Using Healthcare Databases Simple Search
• Using Healthcare Databases Advanced Search