Databases and Resources

These links provide access to freely available, public resources that are largely relevant to palliative and supportive care.
 

General	Cochrane Library PubMed Clinical Queries PubMed TRIP database
Palliative care	Palliative Care PubMed Searches CareSearch Grey Literature CareSearch Review Collection Shaare Zedek Cancer Pain & Palliative Care Reference Database Australian Institute of Health and Welfare: Palliative Care Run the CareSearch Palliative Care Search Filter
Complementary Medicine	National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (US) Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre: About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products (US) American Cancer Society: Complementary and Alternative Methods and Cancer (US) PubMed Complementary Medicine Subset (will set a filter which would have to be cleared before running subsequent PubMed searches)
Finding Guidelines	CMA InfoBase: Clinical Practice Guidelines (Canada) Clinical Practice Guidelines Portal (Australia) eMJA Clinical Guidelines (Australia) National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (UK) New Zealand Guidelines Group (NZ)
Online Free Journal Collections	Free Medical Journals Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research High Wire Press Directory of Open Access Journals: Health Sciences PubMed Central Biomed Central
Patient Websites	MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine, US) healthdirect (Australia) Better Health Channel (Australia) healthtalk (UK)
Grey Literature	CareSearch Grey Literature New York Academy of Medicine Grey Literature Report (US)

You may wish to refer patients and their families to quality consumer websites, such as those listed in Sources of Information in CareSearch For Patients, Carers and Families pages.