Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

• Disease Management Project
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  This resource was developed by The Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education and Unitech Communications. It is authored entirely by physicians from The Cleveland Clinic. Treatment recommendations are tied to national practice guidelines, wherever possible. The guide includes numerous helpful tables and graphics. Citations within the chapter are hyperlinked to a list of references.
• FreeBooks4Doctors
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  FreeBooks4Doctors! is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books over the Internet. Listing of over 600 free online books. Search by specialty or title. Subscribe to their Book Alert to be informed about new free books.
• MEDLINE (Ovid)
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  The database, produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is most frequently utilized for health sciences topics. It contains citations from more than 3,900 English and foreign language journals in the basic and clinical sciences and encompasses the printed Index Medicus, the Index to Dental Literature, and the International Nursing Index. Includes full-text articles from approximately 1400 journals.
• MedReviews Journals
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  Gateway to MedReviews journals, including: Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, Reviews in Gastroenterological Disorders, Reviews in Neurological Diseases, and Reviews in Urology.
• Science Citation Index Expanded
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  The Science Citation Index, a part of the Web of Science, is a multidisciplinary database of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.

  The Science Citation Index (SCI) indexes 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured.

• UpToDate
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  UpToDate is a collaborative effort of thousands of physician educators. For each clinical issue, an expert in the field reviews the topic, synthesizes information, summarizes key findings, and provides detailed, practical recommendations for patient care.

  All of the material in UpToDate is fully referenced and most topic reviews have links to related topics. The medical literature is monitored and relevant topic reviews are updated with new medical findings. UpToDate also includes hundreds of patient information handouts; these topics go through peer review and constant updating as with professional-level topics. It also includes drug information from Lexi-Comp.

  Our licensing agreement with UpToDate limits its use to on campus only. It cannot be made available via our Remote Access Portal for off campus use.

• Virtual Hospital Multimedia Textbooks
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  Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. The goal of the Virtual Hospital digital library is to make the Internet a useful medical reference and health promotion tool for health care providers and patients. The Virtual Hospital digital library contains thousands of textbooks and booklets for health care providers and patients.
  
  Note: After 13 years of service, on January 1, 2006, Virtual Hospital / Virtual Children's Hospital, the Internet's first medical Web sites, ceased operations after serving over 80 million users, due to a lack of funding. However, much of Virtual Hospital / Virtual Children's Hospital content remains available online.
• Yale Heart Book
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  An online textbook covering the entire spectrum of cardiovascular disease, written in clear and simple language.Twenty-nine chapters are included, beginning with the basics of how the heart and circulatory system work, leading to chapters devoted to major cardiovascular disorders and methods of treatment. An encyclopedia of common heart disorders is also included.