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Discovery Search from Ovid Discovery is a one-stop tool that searches across most of the DoH Library's online resources including journal articles, e-books, and evidence based medicine resources such as Cochrane and TRIP. More information can be found here.

Library Catalogue

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Citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books as well as citations for In-process and ahead of print articles

Using the Library's Google Scholar filter. This will link you to the full-text of items if available via the Library's journal subscriptions

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Standards Australia
Enter your HE number under "Last Name/Location"
Provided through SAI Global. ISO standards are available at a cost.

SAI Global now requires an individual user registration to download a standard. Follow the registration prompts. If you can't find the registration emails that are sent to you, try looking in your junk email folder.

Please Note - Monday 22 February 2021 at 6 PM - disruption of access to Library resources for Department of Health staff

The Library server will be unavailable for a period of up to 12 hours from 6pm on Monday 22 February 2021 during the HealthNext migration of the library servers.. This will mean that there will be no access to any library resources from offsite during this outage and only a limited number of medication resources will be available to onsite staff.

These medications information resources will work from any PC within the Health network
- use these links.

AMH Australian Medicines Handbook
AMH Children's Dosing Companion
Therapeutic Guidelines (eTG)
MIMS Online

News

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New Reports

Australia's health 2020

Coming out of COVID-19 lockdown : the next steps for Australian health care This report was written by Stephen Duckett, Will Mackey, Anika Stobart,
and Hal Swerissen. Hugh Parsonage provided extensive research
assistance and made substantial contributions to the report. Published by the Grattan Institute (June 2020)
Coming out of COVID-19 lockdown (Data)
Western Australian Public Sector Audit Committees - Better practice guide Report 26: 2019-20
25 June 2020
The purpose of this guide is to provide better practice principles and
guidance to accountable authorities, audit committee members and
senior managers with responsibility for audit committee activities.

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Telephone
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Popular Medication Resources

AusDI
We are trialling this medication database for a limited time
MIMS
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Therapeutic Guidelines
Australian Medicines Handbook (AMH)

PBS Schedule

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Popular Point of Care and Evidence-Based Resources

Dynamed COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus)
This is the entry for COVID-19 in Dynamed, a point of care tool. The publisher has made this entry available to all. As we don't currently subscribe to Dynamed, no other information is available from this site.