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Welcome to the Patient Safety Resource Guide where you'll find a variety of library resources to support your research.

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CINAHL Plus with Full Text

Expanded version of the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature with full text for over 600 journals, plus evidence-based care sheets, legal cases, drug records, and more than 200 books.
MEDLINE/PubMed

The primary database of information in biomedical and health sciences fields.
MEDLINEplus
Extensive guide to consumer health information resources. Includes common diseases and conditions, dictionaries, organizations, clearinghouses, publications, directories, consumer health libraries, MEDLINE and other medical databases.
ABI/INFORM Complete

Abstracts and many full-text articles on business, finance, management topics from business periodicals. May be useful for researching patient safety from a healthcare administration perspective.
FDA: Drug Safety and Availability
Information for consumers and health professionals on new drug warnings and other safety information, drug label changes, and shortages of medically necessary drug products.

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