Databases

Patient education resources designed to help families understand their health conditions and engage in their own care.

CaringBridge is a nonprofit social network that helps people connect with family and friends during health journeys. This free, online platform offers simple tools for patients and family caregivers to share health updates and mobilize the support of their communities.

With Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source™ (DOSS), dental practitioners, students and researchers have a definitive place to start and finish their online dental research. This database offers complete coverage for top dental and oral sciences journals commonly purchased by dental schools and related institutions.

The Community Medical Centers Health Library is an online resource to help you stay informed on a variety of health-related diseases, conditions and procedures.

Governmental regulatory agency that administers the Medicare program and works with states to administer Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and quality standards.

The National Library of Medicine’s consumer health information resource in English, Spanish, and other languages. Includes information about drugs, health topics, medical tests and healthy recipes.

Stanford doctors and researchers presenting the latest health information.

The Hayes Knowledge Center provides solutions when you need unbiased information about the impact of health technologies on patient safety and clinical outcomes, or to develop defensible, transparent coverage policies.

If you need access to the Hayes Knowledge Center, please email [email protected] with your contact information.  

The world’s leading medical journal and website that delivers high-quality, peer-reviewed research and interactive clinical content to physicians, educators, and the global medical community.

Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.

Open database of 26,027,755 free, scholarly articles.

Clinical care teams and medical students need to be armed with evidence-based answers for all cases, across all specialties. ClinicalKey provides standardized medical knowledge across your organization to promote consistent, evidence-based practices.

An essential tool for nursing research, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) provides evidence based literature covering a wide range of topics including nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine and 17 allied health disciplines.

Clinical care teams and medical students need to be armed with evidence-based answers for all cases, across all specialties. ClinicalKey provides standardized medical knowledge across your organization to promote consistent, evidence-based practices.

Cochrane Reviews are systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health policy, and are internationally recognized as the highest standard in evidence-based health care. Cochrane Systematic Reviews investigate the effects of interventions for disease prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation.

Elsevier’s Clinical Skills is ready to help you access more than 1,700 evidence-based skills and procedures, so you can always perform with confidence, refresh knowledge, master skills, increase competency, and improve clinical decision-making. Enjoy access to over 1500 nursing CEUs as well!

Elsevier's Performance Manager for eLearning to access assigned Critical Care Orientation and Electrocardiogram Interpretation courses. 

To log in: use CMC user ID (e.g. jsmith) and [initial] password of "hello". You will then be prompted to update your password. 

The world’s leading medical journal and website that delivers high-quality, peer-reviewed research and interactive clinical content to physicians, educators, and the global medical community.

This brief tutorial, designed specifically for nurses, provides an introduction to searching the biomedical journal literature using PubMed.

An independent, not-for-profit, physician-led organization that sets and monitors the professional education standards essential in preparing physicians to deliver safe, high-quality medical care to all Americans.

Patient education resources designed to help families understand their health conditions and engage in their own care.

The Board provides two types of services to consumers: public-record information about California-licensed physicians, and investigation of complaints against physicians.

Health Business Elite offers ongoing full text with no embargo for many of the top journals and magazines covering health care administration and institution management.

The world’s leading medical journal and website that delivers high-quality, peer-reviewed research and interactive clinical content to physicians, educators, and the global medical community.

Find practitioners qualified to perform a procedure. 

An essential tool for nursing research, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) provides evidence based literature covering a wide range of topics including nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine and 17 allied health disciplines.

Clinical care teams and medical students need to be armed with evidence-based answers for all cases, across all specialties. ClinicalKey provides standardized medical knowledge across your organization to promote consistent, evidence-based practices.

Application for approval to conduct a research study at any Community Medical Centers (CMC) facilities. If unable to access site, please contact CMC Clinical Content and Research at [email protected]

With Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source™ (DOSS), dental practitioners, students and researchers have a definitive place to start and finish their online dental research. This database offers complete coverage for top dental and oral sciences journals commonly purchased by dental schools and related institutions.

ECRI (guidelines) is proud to serve the healthcare industry. Our areas of focus include: Patient Safety, Evidence-Based Medicine, and Technology Decision Support

Health Business Elite offers ongoing full text with no embargo for many of the top journals and magazines covering health care administration and institution management.

Under FDA regulations, an IRB is an appropriately constituted group that has been formally designated to review and monitor biomedical research involving human subjects. In accordance with FDA regulations, an IRB has the authority to approve, require modifications in (to secure approval), or disapprove research. The Community Medical Centers Institutional Review Board (IRB) is an administrative body established, both in advance and by periodic review, that ensures appropriate steps are taken to protect the rights and welfare of humans participating as subjects in research.

All IRB submissions to the Community Medical Centers IRB will be completed through the electronic submission software system referred to as CyberIRB. Please be aware that CyberIRB has built-in hard-stops therefore, incomplete submission will be automatically returned to Investigators. Prospective or current researchers can refer to the electronic system CyberIRB to complete the IRB application. If you need access to the CyberIRB system, please contact the IRB at [email protected]

Provides full-text for many of the most used biomedical and health journals indexed in MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine’s authoritative bibliographic database used by health care professionals, and researchers.

The National Library of Medicine’s free database of over 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.