Learning resources and research databases for: nursing, including mental health, child and family health, indigenous health, and drug information; and health, including allied health, primary health care, public health, and health information management.
Clear, practical, succinct and up-to-date therapeutic information for a wide range of clinical conditions and medications; a distillation of current best evidence interpreted by experts.
MIMS Online is the web version of MIMS - Australia's most comprehensive and authoritative pharmaceutical database. Prescription and non-prescription drugs. Includes content from the Australian ‘Don’t rush to crush’ handbook.
Guides to prescribing including for specific patient groups (children, pregnant and breastfeeding women, elderly, palliative). Plus therapeutics, precautions, dosage, adverse effects and calculators.
See the Referencing page of this guide for examples of how to reference TG and AMH.
Royal Women’s Hospital (Melbourne, Vic.). Summarises key findings and provides detailed, practical recommendations to support the clinical decision-making process.
It is the need to calculate doses based on a child’s age, weight or body surface area that is the main source of medication error in children. Getting the 4Rs – right indication, right dose, right form, right route – right all the time is the principal goal.
Information on the management of more than 70 conditions common in older people, and general principles on the use of medicines in older people. [hard copy located at Bundoora campus library]
Royal Society of Chemistry. The most authoritative and reliable source of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals. Includes original literature for mechanism of action per substance.
US National Library of Medicine. Side effects, dosage, special precautions, interactions and effectiveness of prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines, dietary supplements and herbal remedies.
