These links provide access to freely available, public resources that are largely relevant to palliative and supportive care.

General	Cochrane Library PubMed Clinical Queries PubMed TRIP database
Palliative care	PubMed Topic Searches Palliative & Supportive Care Specialist Library CareSearch Grey Literature CareSearch Review Collection Shaare Zedek Cancer Pain & Palliative Care Database Run the PubMed palliative filter
Complementary Medicine	National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (US) Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre: About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products (US) American Cancer Society: Complementary & Alternative Methods for Cancer Management (US)
Finding Guidelines	National Guidelines Clearinghouse (US) National Library of Guidelines (UK) CMA Infobase Clinical Guidelines (Canada) NHMRC Clinical Guidelines (Australia) eMJA Clinical Guidelines (Australia) New Zealand Guidelines Group (NZ)
Online Free Journal Collections	Free Medical Journals Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research High Wire Press Directory of Open Access Journals PubMed Central
Patient Websites	MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine, US) Health Insite (Australia) Better Health Channel (Australia) MedHunt (Switzerland) Top 100 Most Useful Websites (US) QuackWatch (US)
Grey Literature	CareSearch Grey Literature New York Academy of Medicine Grey Literature Report (US)

You may wish to refer patients and their families to quality consumer websites, such as those listed in Sources of Information in CareSearch For Patients & Families pages.

Finding out more
Finding Australian Content in Health: A Select List of Australian Internet Sites is available on the South Australian Health Services Libraries Consortium SALUS website. This lists Australian organisations with an explicit interest in evidence-based practice, or which provide access to a substantial body of Australian literature.

Related CareSearch pages
Searching the Web
Learning to Search
Systematic Searching
Palliative Filter

This page was created on 30 April 2008 and is due for review in April 2010