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50 Resources for Healthcare: 9. Search NHS-based journals via HDAS

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HDAS is the Healthcare Databases Advanced Search facility offered by NHS Evidence. It is available to users with an NHS Athens username and password. You can search a number of different databases using the same interface.

The databases available include:
** AMED, BNI, Cinahl, Embase, Health Business Elite, HMIC, Medline and Psychinfo **

The benefits of using HDAS include:
  • Number of different databases available
  • You can search for articles across a wide range of journal titles
  • Common search interface for different databases – you don’t have to learn how to use each database separately
  • You can search using keywords – just enter your terms into the search box
  • You can search using a thesaurus – find the right thesaurus terms to speed up your search
  • You can view your search history
  • You can combine searches together using AND or OR – to either focus or expand your search
  • You are offered a number of limits to apply to your search to help you to focus on a topic; including date range, patient age group, patient gender, publication type and others
  • You can link through to the full-text of online journal articles that we subscribe to
  • You can set up alerts so that you are informed when new content is added that matches your search criteria
  • You can save your results or email them to a colleague
You can access all the NHS Evidence tools from our Healthcare Resources page .
We have a number of online guides to help you to get started or you can sign-up to our literature searching training course which will help you to develop the right skills to use databases to perform a literature search.
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