Therapy Services: Online Databases

Most of the electronic resources to which we subscribe are accessible via the NICE Evidence Search Journals and Databases portal.  From this website, you can access a range of electronic resources, including e-books, e-journals, systematic reviews and healthcare databases, such as Medline, Cinahl, PsycInfo and EMBASE and the Cochrane Library.   

To access the databases you will first need to register for an NHS Athens account. If you already have an Athens account, but have forgotten your username or password?  Contact us and we can re-set it for you. 
Biomedical Databases: search MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, AMED, British Nursing Index,  HMIC and Health Business Elite. 
The Cochrane Collaboration
Physiotherapy Evidence Database
OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions
The UK specialist Rehabilitation Outcomes Collaborative (UK ROC) was set up through a Department of Health NIHR Programme Grant to develop a national database for collating case episodes for inpatient rehabilitation.

During the first 5 years it focused on neurorehabilitation and ultimately included data from all specialist Level 1 and 2 neurorehabilitation services, across the UK.
REHABDATA, produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center (US), is the leading literature database on disability and rehabilitation. The database describes over 80,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues as they relate to people with disabilities. The collection spans 1956 to the present
Consumer interface for PEDro