Full text Medical

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How to use STAT!Ref Online

• Full text Medical Nursing books
• PIER
• Stedmans Medical Dictionary
• MedCalc

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Search
The simplest way to search STAT!Ref is to enter
the search term into the field at the top of the
page and click the Search button.
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Results
STAT!Ref will look for your search term in every
title and searchable resource you subscribe to
and present you with a list of the Results found.
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Filters
There are five STAT!Ref filters that display
under the heading All STAT!Ref Results. They are
Codes, Drug Information, Patient Information,
Point of Care and Titles By Discipline.
Filters are pre-defined groupings of titles
that logically fit together. Whether a filter is
visible or not depends upon the titles in your
subscription and whether or not the filter is
relevant to the search.
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Titles by Discipline Filter
If you are only interested in drug information
click on the Drug Information filter. The Results
list will change to reflect only those titles
that relate to the selected filter. The titles
that are associated with a filter display below
it. If you want drug information from a
specific source, such as AHFS Drug Information,
click on that title and your Results list will
change to reflect only AHFS Drug Information.
To return to the original state of your Results
just click the All STAT!Ref Results filter.
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Related Concepts
A list of the related concepts for the term
searched will display under Related Concepts.
Related concepts come from the National Library
of Medicines UMLS Metathesaurus database.
Click on any one of the listed terms to
re-execute your search for that specific term or
click on the Search All Related Concepts link
at the bottom of the list to your search using
all related terms.
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Result Tile
Each Result displays in its own tile. They are
ranked in their order of relevancy. An excerpt
shows the best matching phrase in the document.
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To get detailed information about the criteria
that were used to perform your search click on
the Search Details link.
Results Options
New Feature! E-mail your search results to
yourself, or someone else.
To view your Results list click on the Results
Page x link. A maximum of 100 documents
display in the Results list. They are grouped
into ten documents per page.
To look up your search term in Stedmans
Dictionary click the Stedmans Definition
link. Stedmans will launch in a separate
browser window.
To hide or show Excerpts click on the Excerpt
link. Each Result tile displays an excerpt
(200 characters) of text surrounding the best
match found in the document.
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Results
To view the document click on the Result you
want.
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Result Title
The titles name will appear directly above the
document.
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STAT!Ref Toolbar
New Feature! E-mail your search results to
yourself, or someone else.
To change the documents font size click on the
Font link,
To print a document click the Print link.
To print a portion of the document, highlight
the text you want to print and click the Print
link. When the Printer Dialogue Box appears
choose the Selection option.
To look up a term in Stedmans Dictionary
highlight the term in the document and click
the Stedmans Look Up link. Stedmans will
launch in a separate browser window.
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STAT!Ref Toolbar Email Link
2. Fill in your name, the recipient (you or
someone else that has access privileges) and an
optional message.
1. Click on the Email Link icon.
3. Click the Send button.
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Advanced Search
Another way to search STAT!Ref is to use Advanced
Search settings. Click on the Advanced
Search link to the right of the Search button to
view your options.
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Advanced Search
Using Advanced Search you can configure your
search settings before executing a search.
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Advanced Search
To filter the search by text type, click on what
type of textual search you want to hone in on.
To include suffixes, click on the check box.
To select one or more titles check the box next
to the title(s) you want to search.
To use a Search Set click on the Search Set
drop down menu and select your search set.
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Advanced Search
Once youve selected your Advanced settings enter
the search term into the field at the top of the
page and click the Search button.
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Advanced Search
Your Advanced settings will continue to be used
for all future searches until you tell STAT!Ref
to reset the default settings or until you log
out. To stop using Advanced settings click on
the Reset search to default settings link that
is highlighted in yellow just above the first
Result.
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Table of Contents
Another way to retrieve a document is to browse
the Table of Contents.
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Table of Contents
Click on the Table of Contents tab to see a list
of all of the titles you subscribe to. You can
browse the TOC by clicking on the triangle to the
left of the title. Drill down until you find the
section, chapter, image, figure, etc. that you
are interested in or click on the document icon
to the right of the section, chapter, etc. to go
directly to the document.
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Table of Contents
If the Table of Contents becomes unwieldy you can
click on the Collapse All link to return it to
its collapsed state.
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Resources
Click on the Resources tab to view other
resources available to you through Stat!Ref.
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Resources
Click on the Resource you are interested in and
it will launch in a separate browser window.
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