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General Practice Resources

Last update June 2008 by Mick Draper

Table of Contents

Compiled G P Sites Bereavement and Palliative Care Find Current Information
Australian Sites GP Registrar Supervisors Journal Abbreviations
General Practice Sites Mental Health & General Practice Publication Aids
Conferences Obesity Uni of Adelaide Citation Linker
General Practice Tools Rare Diseases Evidence Based Practice
with dental examples
Patient Education Rural Practice PubMed searches of Discipline of General Practice research topics

 


Sites Compiled by Search Engines or Directories

Australian Sites

General Practice Sites

Conferences

G P Tools

  • DrsReference Site Free textbooks, journals, NH&MRC publications, govt publications, patient education materials, Australian practice management sites, medical supplies, Oz hospitals, locums, software and computing, 
  • General Practice Computing Group Doctor's Toolkit Case studies in how GPs have computerized their practices
  • General Practice Research Database An aid for decision making in general practice. From Medicines and Health Care Products Agency U.K.
  • NH&MRC Publications Full text online documents from National Health and Medical Research Council
  • Tobacco Cessation Guideline Documents on drugs and counselling. From the Office of the Surgeon General U.S.A.
  • Patient Education Sites

  • Better Health Channel Health info from the Victorian govt
  • HealthInsite Australian Commonwealth Govt site on life styles, and medical conditions
  • informedhealthonline Patient access to Cochrane Library research. From Health Research and Education Foundation Ltd
  • MedlinePlus Patient access to the Medline database. Includes a topical list of more than 600 medical conditions, a medical dictionary and encyclopaedia
  • National Institutes of Health Health Information USA health information by body region, demographic group, procedures or common conditions
  • NHS Direct Online UK site includes a medical encyclopaedia
  • Discipline of General Practice, The University of Adelaide


    Specialist Sites

    Bereavement and Palliative Care

    GP Registrar Supervisors

    Mental Health and General Practice

    Obesity
    Uni of Adelaide Library Obesity Links. Includes tips on how to search Medline as well as Australian and other links. Compiled by Maureen Bell.

    Rare Diseases

    Rural Practice

    Search for Current Information

    • Uni of Adelaide Health Sciences information sources Most of these are restricted to Uni of Adelaide staff and students and "walk in" users.
    • Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences A long list of instructions pages for journals. In alphabetical order by journal title. From Raymon H. Mulford Library Medical College of Ohio.
    • NLM Gateway The U.S. National Library of Medicine database for MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, DIRLINE, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, Space Life Sciences Meetings, and HSRProj (research projects in progress).
    • POPLINE Citations with abstracts to world literature on population, family planning and related health issues. From Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs.
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    Medline
    • MedlinePlus A consumer database that includes a list of more than 600 of medical topics to search, drug info, a medical distionary, and a medical encyclopaedia. From U.S. National  Library of Medicine. 
    • NLM Gateway Provides simultaneous searching in MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE
    • PubMed University of Adelaide customized version of Medline and PreMedline. From the U.S. National Library of Medicine
    • PubMed A customised version for Uni of Adelaide community to search millions of health science and life science citations
    • Uni of Adelaide PubMed tutorial Covers the main points of searching PubMed. 
    • PubMed Tutorial The official PubMed tutorial from U.S. National Library of Medicine.

     

    Journal Title Abbreviations

    • Journals in Index Medicus DOS text or WordPerfect 6.1 listings of the journals indexed by abbreviated title, full title, subject, and country of publlication
    • PubMed Journals Datbase Type in the abbreviated title and click on Go to get the full title

    Publication Aids

    Citation Linker Enter details of the item you want and the linker will try to find the full text for you through University of Adelaide Library. Uni of Adelaide community only.


    A course on Evidence based practice With dental examples

    PubMed searches of Discipline of General Practice research topics

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