Faculty of Health Sciences

• Resources by Program
  • Bachelor of Health Sciences
  • Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety
  • Master of Health Management
  • Medical Sciences
  • Medicine
  • Midwifery
  • Nursing
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Online Rehabilitation Science
  • Physician Assistant
  • Physiotherapy
  • Postgraduate Medicine
• Resources by Topic
  • Evidence Based Practice Resources
  • Consumer Health Resources
  • Health Sciences Resources for Mobile Devices
  • Open Access
  • Rehabilitation Resources
  • Glossaries & Health Care Stats Terminology
• Virtual Reference Shelf
• e-Book Collection
• Video & Images
• Digital Commons
• Hamilton & District Health Library Network
• Archives & Records Management Program
• History of Health & Medicine
• Other Libraries

The resources listed below can be accessed for free on the web unless otherwise stated.

General

• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
• The Merck Manual of Geriatrics
• Scirus science-specific search engine on the Internet
• Google Scholar
• Google
• National Network of Libraries for Health - Canadian/Provinicial Initiatives offering access to health information to the health care community

General Rehabilitation

• Wheeless' Texbook of Orthopaedics
• MEDLINEplus - rehabilitation
• Critically Appraised Topics (CATS) - written by graduate learners in the post-professional graduate course
• Critically Appraised Topics in Rehabilitation Therapy: School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen's University
• WebMD - Medscape -- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Databases

• Health Databases via EbscoHost - Medline, CINAHL, SportDiscus- access restricted to Ontario Allied Health Professionals
• PubMed
• Cochrane Reviews - free access to the abstracts and some plain language summaries of all Cochrane systematic reviews
• PEDro -- The Physiotherapy Evidence Database
• OTseeker: Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Evidence
• 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
• REHAB+ - McMaster Knowledge Refinery & McMaster School of Rehabilitation Sciences - citations (from over 120 premier clinical journals) are pre-rated for quality by research staff, then rated for clinical relevance and interest by at least 3 members of a worldwide panel of practicing occupational and physical therapists (includes an email alerting service)
• Rehabilitation Guidelines -- Evidence based rehabilitation database from the University of Ottawa
• OTDBASE (free for CAOT members)
• TRIP Database (Turning Research into Practice)
• SUMSearch
• NLM Gateway - searches multiple NLM databases and also provides a search interface for meeting abstracts
• MEDLINEplus
• Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) Structured abstracts of quality-assessed reviews produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York
• REHABDATA Literature Database - produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center
• CIRRIE: Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange
• ABLEDATA -- Source for assistive technology information
• Bandolier Evidence-Based Health Care
• PsycBITE - database that catalogues studies of cognitive, behavioural and other treatments for psychological problems and issues occurring as a consequence of acquired brain impairment (ABI)
• ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
• NLM Resource Lists and Bibliographies: Current Bibliographies in Medicine

Occupational Therapy

• Evidence-Based Occupational Therapy - web portal with links to information and resources
• 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.
• disABILITY Information and Resources
• The Disability Resources Monthly Guide to Disabilities of the Internet
• National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research (NCDRR)
• National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)
• Trace Research & Development Center (Trace Center)
• Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA)
• Critically Appraised Topics (CATS) - written by graduate learners in the post-professional graduate course Evaluating Sources of Evidence offered through McMaster University and University of British Columbia.
• CATs: Critically Appraised Topics in Occupational Therapy
• OT Education Finder - CAOT Professional Development - resources include courses, workshops, books, journals, grant and scholarship information, coaching/mentoring services and more
• Occupational Therapy Resources - Dalhousie University
• Occupational Therapy Links
• TechnoOT by Virtual OT - occupational therapy blog about therole of online technology in OT education and practice

Physiotherapy

• Physical Therapist Online -- Physical Therapy Related Links (Physical Therapist.com)
• Hardin MD -- Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy
• Websites Pertinent to Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation - Dalhousie University
• Physical Therapy information on the web
• PT Central
• Physiobase - the online physiotherapy community website (physiobase.com)

Neera Bhatnagar
Last Updated May 2011