Clinicians Health Channel Knowledge Hub

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The Clinicians Health Channel (CHC) is an online clinical information portal that aims to improve quality and safety in health care by providing access to high quality evidence-based resources, covering drug and poisons information, medical research databases, full text medical journals, nursing journals, complementary and alternative medicines, clinical guidelines and point of care tools.

The Clinicians Health Channel now includes:

• Additional evidence based resources, in drug, nursing, complementary and alternative medicines • 24/7 Help Desk • Training and Development available via the Knowledge Hub • Intuitive search and discovery platform • Simple single sign-on tool called the MD Access Control System• Remote and onsite access across the Victorian public health care sector across metropolitan, regional and rural areas

Clinicians Health Channelwww.clinicians.vic.gov.au

What’s new on the Clinicians Health Channel?

Drug Information Resources

AusDIAustralia’s trusted evidence based medicines information resource delivers rapid access via desktop, tablet or mobile devices, to the most comprehensive and up-to-date medicines informaton database and includes Interactions and Safety and Product Identifier modules

Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook (AIDH) 6th Edition

AIDH is authored by The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia, and provides up-to-date information on injectable medicines

Natural Medicines Natural Medicines is the most authoritative resource available on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies

Comprehensive IV compatibility featuring Trissel’s™ 2 data

Clinician’s can interpret conflicting compatibility results by identifying contributing factors such as the physical compatibility, storage, study period, container and chemical stability

AMH Aged Care CompanionThe AMH Aged Care Companion is designed for clinicians who want to provide a high quality care for aged care patients by providing current or proposed best practice and best drug treatment plans

LexiComp OnlineA hospital-wide solution for pharmacists, physicians and nurses, Lexicomp Online provides clinicians access to key drug information resources within a single interface, alongside Lexi-CALC and Lexi-Interact

The Women’s - Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Medicines Guide (PBMG)

The PBMG provides guidance for doctors, pharmacists, nurses, midwives, and other healthcare professionals when selecting suitable treatment options for women during pregnancy or breastfeeding

Stockley’s Drug Interactions Stockley’s Drug Interactions is an authoritative international source of drug interaction information

Do Not Rush To CrushMIMS Online offers “Don’t Rush to Crush” as an optional content module that provides Australia’s most comprehensive guide to administering oral medicines to patients who are unable to swallow or have swallowing difficulties

TOXINZAn Australian focussed poisons information database containing current, concise and reliable recommendations on the management of poisoning from over 190,000 listed chemical products, pharmaceuticals, plants and hazardous creatures

Full Text Resources

PsychiatryOnline PsychiatryOnline.org (POL) offers the most comprehensive online access to psychiatric textbooks, journals and professional development tools

ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Leading nursing journals are provided alongside videos, dissertations, e-books and study paths, making it easier to make connections between complex theoretical information and applying the acquired knowledge to practical settings

Royal College of Nursing Journals Provides nurses with up-to-date evidence based journals in a multidisciplinary environment

Ovid Nursing Full Text The Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Nursing Full Text Plus Collection delivers comprehensive non-embargoed access to core nursing content from 49 leading journals

Point of Care Resources

OvidMDOvidMD was designed from a clinical, evidence-based perspective to ensure results are meaningful to a practicing physician. Efficient and easy-to-use, OvidMD’s search is powered by sophisticated technology developed by the experts at Ovid

Search and Discovery

ProQuest Summon® Service

The Summon® Service delivers an unprecedented search and discovery experience. More than a single-search box, Summon enables the Clinicians Health Channel with a comprehensive and Google like search experience that presents relevant clinical search results without bias and delivers fast direct full text search results