Clinical Reference Tools

Research tools for patient care

Dykes Library Clinical Resources

Use our Clinical Reference Tools to begin your research.

AccessMedicine
Online resource that provides complete references and services for physicians, students, and health professionals who need immediate access to authoritative and current medical data.
ClinicalKey
ClinicalKey is a clinical search engine that supports clinical decisions by making it easier to find and apply relevant knowledge. ClinicalKey drives better care by delivering fast, concise answers when every second counts, and deep access to evidence whenever, wherever you need it.
UpToDate
Comprehensive evidence-based clinical information resource available to clinicians online. It is intended to give clinicians the concise, practical answers at the point of care.
PubMed
Premier health sciences database of peer-reviewed biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Contains more than 30 million citations with author abstracts for 80%. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

PubMed Clinical Queries
Results of searches on this page are limited to specific clinical research areas: therapy, systematic reviews, and genetics. For comprehensive searches, use PubMed directly.

CINAHL Complete
CINAHL Complete is the worlds most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,400 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature.
Micromedex (available only on KUMC campus)
Evidence-based resources used by clinicians to inform and educate care decisions with the goal to meaningfully improve patient outcomes.
Zynx (available only on KUMC campus)
Evidence-based decision support, including physician order sets and interdisciplinary care plans

Clinical Overviews (First Consult)
First Consult by Elsevier is now called Clinical Overviews

These are "open-source" tools which are free to use and are not necessarily available through Dykes Library.

CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends.
Journal of Medical Case Reports
The Journal of Medical Case Reports is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that published original case reports that expands the field of general medical knowledge and original.
PubMed Health
PubMed Health specializes in reviews of clinical effectiveness research (evidence-based medicine), with easy-to-read summaries for consumers as well as full technical reports, including systematic reviews from PubMed.
U.S. Preventitive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is an independent, volunteer panel of national experts in disease prevention and evidence-based medicine. The Task Force works to improve the health of all Americans by making evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services.

Find a Clinical Association Website: ex., American Gastroenterological Association > Practice Guidelines
Use a Clinical Reference Tool:
- Search ClinicalKey by guidelines as a type of publication
- In AccessMedicine, use Quick Reference to find Current Guidelines, 2-Minute Medicine contains brief guidelines
Search PubMed, use the left panel to filter your results to the Article Type of Guideline or Practice Guideline

If you're off campus, access resources that are available remotely via the links below and, when prompted, login with your KUMC ID and password.