Occupational Therapy: Occupational Therapy

Authoritative coverage of nursing and allied health literature.

Health sciences articles including clinical, basic sciences, and public health information. Encompasses medicine, nursing, allied health, biological and physical sciences, and humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.

PEDro is a free database of over 28,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.

"short videos illustrating how to use the PEDro Advanced Search to find the best research to answer clinical questions submitted by PEDro users."

Multi-disciplinary database covering general and academic periodicals. Full-text available for many titles.

Health sciences articles including clinical, basic sciences, and public health information. Interface incorporates Himmelfarb Library's search filters to support evidence-based practice.

Interdisciplinary citation and abstract database covering more than 14,200 peer-reviewed journals, tracking cited and citing literature.

Medical search engine with emphasis on evidence based medicine (EBM) and clinical guidelines and queries, including content from Cochrane and Bandolier.

Capstone projects submitted to the Health Sciences Research Commons

E-resources offer access to research articles, clinical information, e-book collections, and more.

Search by journal title to find access options through the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library.

Health Information @ Himmelfarb provides simple, one-stop searching for articles, books and e-books, digital media, and more across all of Himmelfarb Library's online, print, and digital collections.

The following tutorials will help you get started using the research tools provided by Himmelfarb.

The database was developed to help clinicians and researchers identify reliable and valid instruments used to assess patient outcomes during all phases of rehabilitation. The database provides evidence-based summaries that include concise descriptions of each instrument’s psychometric properties, instructions for administering and scoring each assessment as well as a representative bibliography with citations linked to PubMed abstracts.

Financially supported by the Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, "STROKE ENGINE was built with the goal of bridging the gap in knowledge translation between research findings and current clinical practice in stroke rehabilitation."

"by McMaster University's School of Rehabilitation Science in collaboration with the DeGroote School of Medicine's Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Health Information Research Unit. It incorporates the McMasterPLUS(TM) email alerting system and searchable database of best evidence from the health care literature of particular interest to rehabilitation professionals. It is supported in part by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research."

Posted March 25, 2021

"The paper “Global estimates of the need for rehabilitation based on the Global Burden of Disease study 2019”, published in the world’s leading medical journal The Lancet, provides the first-ever global and regional figures on the number of people in need of rehabilitation."

"The latest clinical practice guidelines, systematic reviews and clinical trials... These links are updated once a month, usually on the first Monday of the month."
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