Guides: Occupational Therapist Assistant & Physiotherapist Assistant: Articles & Databases

Major Databases

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) This link opens in a new window
CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
This collection includes journals in the fields of medicine, nursing and allied health. Provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 850 titles with full text for over 550 of those titles.
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ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Premium This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, evidence-based resources, video, dissertations, reference books and more.
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PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed is a free service of the National Library of Medicine and provides indexing and abstracts of biomedical journals. The content is from MEDLINE with additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to sites providing full text articles and other related resources. Use either the abstract or the citation formats to display the FindIt button
SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window
Provides full text articles for 550 journals in the area of sports and sports medicine, extending back to 1985. Content also includes books, book chapters and conference proceedings.
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Physical Therapy Evidence Database (PEDro)
Free database of randomised (randomized) trials (RCTs) and systematic reviews for evidence-based physiotherapy or physical therapy.
OTSeeker
OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions.
National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC)
The REHABDATA database spans almost 50 years of disability and rehabilitation research. More than 200,000 abstracts are available through this database, including approximately 115,000 records originally indexed in the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE) database.

EBM Reviews This link opens in a new window
Leading resource for systematic reviews in health care. Also known as: Evidence Based Medicine Reviews, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
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