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The Medical & Pharmaceutical Collection

CINAHL is an invaluable resource for:

Nursing and allied health professionals investigating treatment methods and innovations

Students assessing topics of research

Health care professionals staying up-to-date in their discipline

Educators developing nursing and allied health curricula

Researchers tracking clinical trials and discoveries

Medical or nurse attorneys researching cases

Staff developers and nurses interested in clinical innovations

Hospital staff seeking insight on how to comply with JCAHO standards

Source: Cinahl Information Systems

Print Equivalent: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied

Health Literature

Frequency: Monthly

Number Of Records: 300,000+

Coverage Dates: 1982-Present

Type Of Records: Bibliographic and Full Text

The CINAHL database is the authoritative source of information for the professional literature of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and healthcare. For nearly forty years the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature� print index has indexed English-language and selected foreign-language journals covering nursing and other specialised health care areas.

The database also includes relevant materials from seventeen allied health disciplines, plus biomedicine, management, behavioural sciences, health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health. The CINAHL database provides references to books, book chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals, dissertations, educational software, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, critical paths, and research instruments.

The Power of electronic information on SilverPlatter

With your choice of SilverPlatter’s search and retrieval software (SPIRS) for Web, Windows, Macintosh, PC or UNIX clients, you can easily: search the entire database in a single keystroke; target your search to a specific area of interest; free-text search through the database; use Boolean and proximity operators for searching, including AND, OR, NOT, WITH, NEAR, ADJ; switch easily from brief to full record; search Cinahl Information System’s CINAHL AND other databases at the same time for truly comprehensive results; combine current and previous search statement and much, much more!

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