Physiotherapy Resources

Neera Bhatnagar
PT Liaison
Health Sciences Library
bhatnag@mcmaster.ca
905-525-9140, x23775

Books

Library Catalogue (Books, Journal Titles, Government Documents, Multimedia Resources (classic Library Catalogue
MD Consult (includes approximately 40 electronic medical texts)
UpToDate (includes topic reviews written by experts)
Clinical Evidence (BMJ) (concise account on the prevention and treatment of a wide range of clinical conditions)
StatRef! (includes 16 electronic texts)
Access Medicine (approximately 60 electronic texts)
Books@OVID
Thieme ElectronicBook Library (collection of popular colour atlases)
ACP PIER - the Physicians' Information and Education Resource from ACP [click on List of titles, select ACP PIER ]
Dynamed
FIRSTconsult
Harrison's Online (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine)
ACP Medicine (formerly Scientific American Medicine Online)
Dutton, Mark. Orthopaedic examination, evaluation, & intervention. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004 (Print on Reserve WE 168 .D981o 2004)
Prentice WE, Voight ML. Techniques in musculoskeletal rehabilitation. New York : McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Division, c2001. (Print WB 460 .T255 2001)
Wheeless' Texbook of Orthopaedics
Made Incredibly Easy eBooks
e-Therapeutics
Micromedex Healthcare Series - information on drugs, toxicology, diseases, alternative medicine
PubMed Bookshelf
Quick Answers (AccessMedicine)

e-CPS - Compendium of pharmaceuticals and specialties (Canada)
Micromedex Healthcare Series- information on drugs, toxicology, diseases, alternative medicine
Natural Standard - foods, herbs, supplements; comparative effectiveness; drug-herbal supplements interactions checker, and more)

To view locate print and electronic government publications, search Library Catalogue under the appropriate Medical Subject Heading.

Steinfeld E, Lenker J, Paquet V. The Anthropometrics of disability: an international workshop. Prepared for the U.S. Access Board. Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design. School of Architecture and Planning, University of Buffalo, c2001, 2002.

MacPLUS Federated Search - designed to find the best evidence-based answer to clinical questions by simultaneously searching the leading evidence-driven medical publications and high quality clinical literature
- See MacPLUS on YouTube
- Registration Instructions for MacPLUS FS
Evidence-Based Practice Resources (McMaster)
Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice
The EBM Toolbox
PEDro: The Physiotherapy Evidence Database
Critically Appraised Topics in Rehabilitation Therapy: School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen's University
OTseeker: Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Evidence
BMJ Clinical Evidence
ACP PIER (Physicians' Information and Education Resource)
Dynamed
FirstConsult

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Rehabilitation after critical illness. NICE clinical guideline 83. Developed by the Centre for Clinical Practice at NICE, 2009.
Rehabilitation Guidelines-- Evidence based rehabilitation database from the University of Ottawa
CMA Infobase (Canadian Medical Association)
National Guideline Clearinghouse (United States)

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (via Cochrane Library)
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) (via Cochrane Library)
Abstracts of Cochrane Reviews
Systematic Reviews (NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York)

Institute for Rehabilitation Research and Development (IRRD) - Online Education - The Rehabilitation Centre (Ottawa)
Health Related web sites -- Rehabilitation (McMaster)
MEDLINEplus Databases
CRD Databases (NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York)
National Rehabilitation Information Center (National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research)
MEDLINEplus Health Information
Public Health Agency of Canada
Google
Scirus: science-specific search engine on the Internet

There are a number of good online tutorials available for searching OVID, CINAHL, PubMed, RefWorks, etc. and for the Library Catalogue.