UpToDate - Clinical point of care tool. Access provided by SVHM IT Department.
UpToDate Mobile App:
Before downloading the app, open UpToDate using a hospital device and create an account. This will enable UpTodate to verify your access.
Go to UpToDate Help page for additional information
Clinicians Health Channel - provided by the Health Department, Victoria. Includes MIMs, Australian Medicines Handbook, and Therapeutic Guidelines as well as bibliographic databases and journal collections.
The following diagram shows the type of content, and a rough idea of the overlap, of key databases. It demonstrates the need for multiple databases to be included in a comprehensive literature search, but it does not attempt to be exact or exhaustive. Databases change constantly and there are many layers of duplication.
Keep in mind that the specialty area of a database is very broad, and it indicates the types of journals indexed rather than the specific content. For example a nursing and allied health database will still include articles on general medicine, psychology and radiology which are published in nursing and allied health journals. Likewise, there are many nursing related topics in Medline and PsycINFO. Medline and Embase cover an extremely wide range of topics.
Please note that access to Australian Standards has changed as of March 2025
Access via the new platform Accuris is now via a single signon link
More information is available via the SVHA sharepoint site (restricted to SVHA staff only)
