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
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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