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STAT!Ref (link removed) provides access to over 50 medical and nursing textbooks, as well as medical calculators and PIER (link removed), the Physicians' Information and Education Resource.

Search
To find information on a topic, simply type your keyword into the Search Terms box and press Search. STAT!Ref by default will search all highlighted titles and select the best precision for the most relevant matches. Alternatively, you can select one or several titles to search. Use CTRL and your mouse to select several titles at once.

Search Screen

Also notice the PIER (Physicians' Information and Education Resource), a web-based decision support tool developed by the American College of Physicians, Links on the right side of the screen. Clicking on Go to PIER TOC will open PIER's table of contents in a new window.

Results
Click on a title to access the full-text from the results page. Clicking on the page icon (full-text icon) will open the full-text in a new window.

Result Screen

Full-Text
After clicking on the page icon (full-text icon), a textbook's table of contents is displayed on the left side of the screen and is fully browsable. On the right is the search term highlighted in red in the full-text. You can jump to other parts of the textbook using the table of contents, or scroll through the full-text.

full-text view

Navigating Full-Text and Using the Toolbar

Navigation toolbar
Navigating through results is accomplished using either the arrows on the right side of the STAT!Ref toolbar or by using the terms on the left side.
    Right Side
  • Next match links to the next occurrence of your search in the same document.
  • Next document links to the first match in the next document.
  • Previous match and Previous document link to the previous match in the same document & previous match in the last document, respectively.

    •     Left Side
  • Search returns to the Search screen.
  • Results returns to the results of your last search.
  • Contents links to a browsable table of contents list for all books in STAT!Ref.
  • Stedman's Dictionary and
  • MedCalc 3000 link to additional STAT!Ref resources.

    • Stedman's Medical Dictionary
    When you link to Stedman's Dictionary it opens in a new window, so you can simultaneously search for definitions while accessing textbooks

    MedCalc 3000
    medcalc button is a recent addition to STAT!Ref, offering a variety of medical formulae, calculators and decision tools. Search or browse by topic.

    PIER
    Pier is available in both STAT!Ref and through the American College of Physicians (ACP). Linking from Go to PIER TOC on the STAT!Ref Search page opens PIER in a new window. Search by keyword or browse by topic for authoritative, evidence-based clinical guidance.

    Accessing STAT!Ref
    To access STAT!Ref, from the Library Homepage (link removed) chooseAdditional Search Systems and Databases (link removed) then click STAT!Ref (link removed). Open access is available on the LSUHSC campus.

    Off-campus access is available through WAM (link removed). Users must be LSUHSC faculty, staff, or students and have a functioning library barcode and PIN. For more information see our Remote Access (link removed) information page or WAM brochure (link removed) (pdf).

    For more information, please contact the Reference (link removed) Department at the Isché Library (504) 568-6102 / (504) 568-8339, or at the Dental (link removed) Library (504) 619-8507, or stop by the library for a quick demonstration.

    -- Maureen Knapp (link removed)