Searchable Databases:

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Searchable Databases
  • Community Healthcare and Resource Directory (CHARD)
    CHARD (Community Healthcare and Resource Directory) is a free, secure and easy-to-use website that provides you with detailed information on patient resources to improve the speed, efficiency and effectiveness of your referrals. Today CHARD has approximately 12,000 mental health and addiction listings. This will be expanding to include an additional 14,000 services and practitioners working in the fields of cancer, cardiac, musculoskeletal, neuro-degenerative, palliative, renal, and respiratory treatment, as well as every specialist physician in the province.
  • Medeffect Canada
    MedEffect Canada provides consumers, patients, and health professionals with easy access to report an adverse reaction or side effect, obtain new safety information on drugs and other health products and learn and better understand the importance of reporting side effects.
  • Medscape
    Medscape is a free resource for Physicians, medical journal articles, MEDLINE, medical news, major conference coverage, and comprehensive drug information.
  • Up To Date
    UpToDate is a clinical decision support system that helps clinicians throughout the world provide the best patient care. We use current evidence to answer clinical questions quickly and easily at the point of care. This saves clinicians time, improves outcomes and lowers health care costs.
  • WebMD
    WebMD is a leading source for trustworthy and timely health and medical news and information. Providing credible health information, supportive community, and educational services by blending award-winning expertise in content, community services, expert commentary, and medical review.