Databases and resources

Where to find evidence and information in palliative care

These links provide access to freely available, public resources that are largely relevant to palliative and supportive care.

General

• Cochrane Library
• PubMed Clinical Queries
• PubMed
• TRIP database

Palliative care

• Palliative Care PubMed Searches
• CareSearch Grey Literature
• CareSearch Review Collection
• Cochrane Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care
• Shaare Zedek Cancer Pain & Palliative Care Reference Database
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare: Palliative Care
• palliAGED Search (Aged care)
• Run the CareSearch Palliative Care Search Filter

Complementary medicine

• National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (US)
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre: About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products (US)
• American Cancer Society: Complementary and Alternative Methods and Cancer (US)

Finding guidelines

• CMA InfoBase: Clinical Practice Guidelines (Canada)
• Clinical Practice Guidelines Portal (Australia)
• eMJA Clinical Guidelines (Australia)
• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (UK)

Online free journal collections

• Free Medical Journals
• Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
• High Wire Press
• Directory of Open Access Journals: Health Sciences
• PubMed Central
• Biomed Central

Patient websites

• MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine, US)
• healthdirect (Australia)
• Better Health Channel (Australia)
• healthtalk (UK)

You may wish to refer patients and their families to quality consumer websites, such as those listed in Sources of Information in the CareSearch For Patients and Carers pages.