LITERATURE RESEARCH FOR MASSAGE Critical Thinking http

LITERATURE RESEARCH FOR MASSAGE
Critical Thinking
http://www.cocc.edu/finney/massage.htm

Note: this information can be used as a hand-out (use the URL's provided) or a webpage (click on the blue links).

Reference books give background, definition, context and factual information. Browse COCC's reference collection (on the first floor) in the W's for resources on clinical medicine and in the R's for resources on popular medicine. The R's would be the best place for alternative medicine such as "massage".

General statistics for health related fields can be found in the U.S. Statistical Abstract at REF HA202 .U5.

JAMA Archives
http://pubs.ama-assn.org/
This Internet site provides a collection of high-quality resources for physicians, other health care professionals, and the general public. It is produced and maintained by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) editors and staff under the direction of an editorial review board of leading HIV/AIDS authorities.

Harvard World Health News
http://www.worldhealthnews.harvard.edu/
World Health News is an online news digest produced by the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health. Covering critical public health issues, it is an excellent resource for readers who are interested in public health and related issues. Drawing on newspapers and magazines, the site offers a digest of news and information with links to the complete story.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/
Look for the link to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is the primary US agency for vital and health statistics.

Use the Orbis Union Catalog to search other NorthWest college/university libraries, including OHSU (Oregon Health Sciences University)! Orbis books can be delivered to COCC within approximately 48 hours.

Catalog Search Hints

use word search
use * to locate endings to words (truncation)
use boolean commands (nicotine or smok*) and pregnan*
keep searches fairly general

EBSCO Cumulative Nursing and Allied Health Index
(click on EBSCOhost, then click on all databases, then scroll down to click on CINAHL). This database provides primarily citations to professional nursing literature. Some full text may be available.

EBSCO Academic Search Elite
(Click on the Academic Search Elite link). This database is a general academic database and provides about 60% full text.

EBSCO HealthSource Nursing
(Click on the HealthSource Nursing link). Provides nearly 520 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 550 journals.

Ebsco HealthSource Consumer Edition
(Click on HealthSource Consumer Link). Provides full text for nearly 280 health periodicals, over 1,100 health pamphlets, and 20 health reference books.

For more information on EBSCO databases click here: http://www.cocc.edu/library/faculty/ebscotutorial.htm

National Library of Medicine's MEDLINEplus .
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
An impressive site maintained free of charge for educational purposes only and updated regularly, MEDLINEplus allows a wide audience of users from laypersons to professionals access to selected, quality, authoritative health information. Primary emphasis is placed on material from the well-respected National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
MEDLINE, an extensive database of citations to journal articles maintained by the National Library of Medicine, has long been a valuable resource for those interested in topics related to medicine and biochemistry.

BioMedNet
http://www.biomednet.com/
After registering for free, the user can perform searches on BioMedNet's full-text library of 170 biological journals. Also available are Evaluated MEDLINE and BioMedLink. Both of these powerful search engines canvass databases of the most common international biological and medical journals. Only the abstracts from MEDLINE and
BioMedLink are available for no cost.

CAM citation index by the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM)
http://nccam.nih.gov/htdig/search.html
The CAM Citation Index (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) consists of a bibliographic database of more than 90,000 citations to journal articles, 1963-79. Is is now part of PubMed and is maintained by the National Library of Medicine.

Database Search Hints

start with keyword searching when available
use * to locate endings to words (truncation)
use boolean commands (nicotine or smok*) and pregnan*
searches can be specific
full text articles may be e-mailed, downloaded or printed from the screen.
other articles may be located in the COCC or St. Charles library, or may be ordered via inter-library loan.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdcnpin.org/
Provides information about HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB) for individuals and organizations working in prevention, health care, research, and
support services.

Healthfinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Healthfinder is a Web site with an extensive searchable database of reliable online health publications, clearinghouses, Web sites, self-help groups, government agencies, academic centers, and nonprofit agencies. This is a gateway site developed and maintained by the US Government's DHHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, guaranteeing the authority and expertise of the authors. It contains a wide variety of consumer health information with well organized links to more than 550 Web sites and 500 selected documents as well as frequently asked health questions.