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BMJ Best Practice provides healthcare professionals with quick, easy access to the latest information and evidence for diagnosis and treatment decisions. Its content is updated daily and draws on the latest evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.
Access is automatically enabled via the national IP in the Republic of Ireland. BMJ Best Practice can also be accessed anytime via the mobile responsive website or the app.

CINAHL Complete provides access to a comprehensive range of content covering over 50 nursing specialties as well as allied health subjects including speech and language pathology, nutrition, physical therapy and much more.

ClinicalKey supports healthcare professionals and students with the latest evidence across specialties in a variety of formats, including full-text reference books and journals, point-of-care monographs, drug information, videos, practice guidelines, customized patient education handouts, clinical calculators and more.

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Ireland's central source for Open Access health research
Lenus, the Irish Health Research repository is the leading source for Irish research in health and social care. The Lenus collections include peer reviewed journal articles, grey literature, dissertations, reports and conference presentations. Lenus contains the publications of the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) and the collected research output of over 130 health organisations past and present are all freely accessible.

Submit Your Research to Lenus
If you are an Irish researcher or have conducted research in an Irish institution or health organisation, you can add your published research to Lenus. Submitted articles must be available in Open Access format or the publisher's policy must permit author self archiving. Advice on Open Access publishing and publishers' policies is available on the 'Open Access Publishing Guide' and 'Publishers' policies' pages available on the left-hand menu.

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MedicinesComplete, from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, is the definitive online resource for drug and healthcare information. It provides unbiased knowledge to make the best clinical decisions on the use and administration of drugs and medicines.
The HSE Library subscription includes:
BNF
BNF for Children
Clarity's Diagnosis and Treatment Guidance
Critical Illness
Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation
Handbook of Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes
Injectable Drugs Guide
Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference
Palliative Care Formulary
Stockley's Drug Interactions

The HSE Library has an extensive collection of over 7700 available ebooks on the LibCentral platform. Titles can also be requested for purchase. Full details and a guide to using the book request function are available here https://hse.drsteevenslibrary.ie/c.php?g=663148&p=4689271

Access to 382 journals, encompassing over 481,000 articles
Over 50% of the package content is ranked in the Journal Citation Reports (Source: Clarivate, 2020)*
Complimentary access back to 1999, where available.

When you’re treating a patient, you want to make decisions based on the best available evidence and expertise. But even the most experienced clinicians need support in keeping up with new research and advances in care. Staff at all HSE sites have access to Up To Date,

UpToDate authors and editors synthesize the available clinical evidence and best clinical practices to help you provide high quality care to your patients and high standards of research.

They follow a systematic and transparent editorial policy for identifying, reviewing and synthesizing clinical evidence as it applies to a clinical question.

To create and update the clinical topics in UpToDate, our editorial staff performs comprehensive reviews of the medical literature and considers the quality of the study, the hierarchy of evidence, and its clinical relevance.

At the top of the evidence hierarchy are meta-analyses or randomized trials of high methodological quality, followed by randomized trials with methodological limitations, then observational studies and unsystematic clinical observations (expert consensus or opinions). Inferences are stronger when the evidence is summarized in systematic reviews that present all relevant data.

An extensive journal collection providing full text access to over 400 titles covering medical, nursing and psychology disciplines.