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CINAHL Complete provides access to content covering nursing specialities as well as allied health subjects including speech and language pathology, nutrition, physical therapy and much more. *Full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in the CINAHL Database. *Need to login with your OpenAthens account***Not available for Bankstown Hospital Staff**
MEDLINE® covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from approximately 5,600 journals published world-wide. Records start in the early 1800's and go all the way to our daily updates.
The ProQuest Health Premium Collection serves a wide range of users with a broad collection of health care journals, evidence-based resources, and full-text dissertations, e-books and multi-media and includes the top five ProQuest health and medical databases:*Need to login with your OpenAthens account*
**Not available for Bankstown Hospital Staff**
Health and Medical Collection – offers expanded in-depth coverage from leading biomedical publications for researchers, students, faculty, and healthcare professionals
Nursing & Allied Health Database – provides reliable health care information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more
Health Management Database – includes relevant resources for anyone interested in the business of running a health organization
Psychology Database – offers key information from leading psychology publications
Public Health Database -- provides core public health literature for students, teachers, researchers, and professionals from journals, videos. news, trade publications and more
Family Health Database – covers a vast array of subjects for patients and their families, from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, and from eye care to dentistry
Medline – provides a recognized bibliographic database offering millions of citations from thousands of biomedical and life science journals
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is an essential full-text database for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students. It provides hundreds of full-text psychology journals, including many indexed in APA PsycInfo. It offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and counseling.*Need to login with your OpenAthens account*
**Not available for Bankstown Hospital Staff**
Embase (Excerpta Medica Database) is a biomedical and pharmacological database produced by Elsevier B.V., containing more than 30 million records including articles from more than 8,500 journals published world-wide. It contains bibliographic records with citations, abstracts and indexing derived from biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals, and is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research, pharmacology and toxicology. 
APA PsycInfo® is an electronic bibliographic database providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. The database includes material of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. Updated weekly, APA PsycInfo® provides access to journal articles, books, chapters, and dissertations.
OpenMD is a search engine that makes high-quality medical information easily accessible to everyone. OpenMD searches billions of documents from government agencies, global health organizations, medical journals, and reference sites.
A clinical care standard is a small number of quality statements that describe the care patients should be offered by health professionals and health services for a specific clinical condition or defined clinical pathway in line with current best evidence.- Acute anaphylaxis
- Acute coronary syndromes
- Acute stroke
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Cataract
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Colonoscopy
- Delirium
- Heavy menstrual bleeding
- Hip Fracture
- Low back pain
- Management of peripheral intravenous catheters
- Opioid analgesic stewardship in acute pain
- Osteoarthritis of the knee
- 3rd & 4th degree perineal tears
- Sepsis
- Stillbirth
- Venous thromboembolism prevention
- Psychotropic Medicines in Cognitive Disability or Impairment Clinical Care Standard
Research Review Australia publications bring the best of 10,000 global medical journals to your inbox every issue with commentary from Australian experts. Over 40 areas including Cardiology, Diabetes, Oncology, General Practice and Psychiatry. Specialist opinions on guidelines, medicines and conferences. All Research Review publications are free to receive. Research Review makes keeping up to date easy whether you're a Physician, Surgeon, General Practitioner or a Nurse. 40 regular subject specific reviews, over 50 international medical conferences every year and advice from over 60 Australian medical specialists.
CEC Quality Improvement Toolkits support local healthcare teams to start and sustain a quality improvement (QI) project focusing on clinical areas where the risk of harm is well recognised. The toolkits include step by step guides to solve small or large problems using QI methodology.
Who can use the toolkits?
How can you use these toolkits?
What is the Quality Improvement Data Systems (QIDS) and why should I join?
QIDS provides a channel for clinicians to reach out for advice to CEC experts as well as communities of practice and to share their own learnings.
Each toolkit is linked to a Quality Improvement Community of Practice (CoP) that can be accessed through the Quality Improvement Data System (QIDS). Joining a QI CoP allows you to record and track your quality progress and share learning with other teams in NSW.
https://www.cec.health.nsw.gov.au/improve-quality/quality-improvement-toolkits
Critical Intelligence Unit
Critical Intelligence Unit: rapid, evidence-based insights to clinical innovation
SWSLHD Library Newsletter
Check out our library research newsletter for valuable insights into the latest scholarly articles, books, and other research materials.
- View current SWSLHD Library Newsletter March 2025 to find out about:
• Library Lovers’ Morning Tea for Clinical Educators at Campbelltown
• Library return to work support and other training sessions
• Liverpool Hospital Museum
• New Library Guide for Radiology
• New print and online library resources across SWSLHD
• New SWSLHD staff publications
Previous Library Newsletter
- SWSLHD Library Newsletter December 2024
- SWSLHD Library Newsletter September 2024
- SWSLHD Library Newsletter June 2024
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New resources are regularly added to our collections to help keep you current in your specialism.
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New eBooks in SWSLHD Libraries
New Resources in Bankstown-Lidcombe Library
New Resources in Bowral & District Hospital Library
New Resources in Campbelltown Library
New Resources in Fairfield Hospital Library
New Resources in Ken Merten Library, Liverpool Hospital
