When you need medical info fast, STAT!Ref it!

Medical textbooks without leaving your lab, office, or home
STAT!Ref (link removed) is a full-text database offering access to over 50 core medical and nursing textbooks. Simply type in a keyword to simultaneously cross-search multiple books, or double click on a title to browse the full table of contents and text. STAT!Ref is your own miniature medical library, with the convenience of 24-hour online access and is available both on and off-campus.

Off-campus access is available via WAM. 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).

An example of titles include:
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (2005),
Nurses Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Rationales (2004),
Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine (2003),
The Nursing Diagnosis Pocket Manual (2001),
Geriatric Medicine: an Evidence Based Approach (2003),
Davis Drug Guide for Nurses (2005),
Review of Medical Physiology (2003),
Emergency Medicine, a Comprehensive Study Guide (2004),
Stedman's Medical Dictionary, and many more.
The online versions are also accessible from the book's print record in INNOPAC (link removed), the library catalog, and from the E-Books (link removed) page.

Medical reference at your fingertips
STAT!Ref is not just for textbooks anymore! New features include MedCalc 3000 (link removed), a unique computerized medical reference and tool set. MedCalc 3000 encompasses a wide array of pertinent medical formulae, clinical criteria sets, and decision tree analysis tools used everyday by clinicians, medical educators, nurses, and health care students of all types. Access is available from the top toolbar of the STAT!Ref screen.

Clinical questions? Consult a PIER!
Physicians' Information and Education Resource (link removed) (PIER) is a web-based decision support tool developed by the American College of Physicians (ACP). Designed with rapid, point-of-care delivery in mind, PIER offers evidence-based guidance for clinicians on over 245 topics from authoritative sources. Every topic is rated using evidence-based criteria from the ACP. Plus, references are provided at the end of each topic and link out to the abstract in PubMed. PIER is fully searchable, or can be browsed by topic modules.

Topics include:

  • Diseases
  • Screening and Prevention
  • Complementary & Alternative Medicine
  • Ethical & Legal issues
  • Procedures

    • STAT!Ref provides two ways to search PIER. It is cross-searchable within STAT!Ref or independently through a link to ACP.

    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.

    -- Molly Knapp (link removed)