STAT!Ref Online

The Premier Healthcare e-Resource

Overview



STAT!Ref®, the premier healthcare e-resource, enables users to intuitively cross-search full-text titles, journals, and evidence-based point-of-care authoritative resources in mere seconds. With 600+ and growing resources in over 50 healthcare disciplines, STAT!Ref provides the latest healthcare information in a customizable and convenient format. STAT!Ref goes where you go, accessible by desktop, laptop, and wireless or web-enabled mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets.

Offering exemplary titles from a wide variety of publishers and medical societies, many of the titles available through STAT!Ref are included on Doody’s Core Titles List (DCT). Search all of the titles in your subscription at once using simple text queries and Boolean operators. STAT!Ref will present the results in relevance-ranked order and offer spelling corrections and related concepts to focus your search.

Implementing an à la carte model, STAT!Ref is a subscription-based service. Each subscription renews annually on its anniversary date. A subscriber has the opportunity to add or eliminate any title or resource they want during the renewal process. Additionally, you can choose the number of concurrent users you want or need to access each title.


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Get the results you want from evidence-based and authoritative references in seconds. Pick and choose your titles today. Or, start by selecting from one of our customizable Core Resources Collections featuring 15 different disciplines.

Product Highlights




Every subscription comes with the following:


STAT!Ref incorporates many different features, here are just a few:


Add any of our Premier content and you have a robust and complete one stop place for all of your healthcare resources.


Setting up a Profile personalizes your institution’s STAT!Ref subscription to make it unique to you. When you set up a profile, you can create a customized experience with favorite documents or searches, recent searches, e-mailed evidence alerts and much more. You can enable your Profile - Anywhere Login Account (Temporary STAT!Ref Login) for Mobile access and to well, log in from anywhere! You'll know if you are logged in with your profile if profile in the menu bar is changed to Welcome (your first name here!). Your profile features the following;

  • • Account settings
  • • Anywhere Login Account - Activate a Temporary STAT!Ref Login, where you can access STAT!Ref via a username and password anytime and anywhere
  • • Preferences
  • • Search Sets
  • • Alerts
  • • Favorites

Account Settings
From your Profile you can view and edit your settings including changing your username (email address) or password. Please note: your profile is setup to enable anywhere access and if you change the listed email address or password, then the new value(s) will also be what you must use to log in.

Anywhere Login Account - Use Your personalized Profile account as a Temporary STAT!Ref Login
Activate and renew a Temporary STAT!Ref Login. Why Do We Call it a Temporary STAT!Ref Login? Activating the Temporary STAT!Ref Login Account will provide you the ability to login to your institutional subscription via a username (email address) and password on your mobile device, remote laptop, tablet, desktop, etc. This account is the same as your Anywhere Login Account. The Temporary STAT!Ref Login email address and password become a login account, temporarily. Temporary Login Accounts expire 90 days from initial setup, by default. Your institutions decision maker, in regards to STAT!Ref, can request to make the expiration shorter or longer from 30 days up to 365 days.
Get more details on how to set up your account - Click here.

Preferences
Under preferences, you can choose your default dictionary if more than one is available in your subscription. You can also set which website is displayed when you log out of the TDS Health platform.

Search Sets
Profile - Anywhere Account users have the ability to create their own personal Search Sets. Initially, this will be empty, click [Add New Search Set] and enter a name such as Drug Info. Next click the name you just created and your available title list will appear. Check the box next to each title you want saved to your Search Set. Click the Save & Close icon and your search set will be saved. To use your search set, under FILTER BY on the main search page, use the drop list under All Titles to select your Search Set and then type in your serch term(s) and search. Only the titles in your search set will be searched for results.

Alerts
Sign up for STAT!Ref alerts. STAT!Ref provides alerts which you can sign up to receive via email or by subscribing to the RSS versions of the service.

STAT!Ref Evidence Alerts cover a range of healthcare disciplines that can be chosen delivering relevant and meaningful EBM information focused on your healthcare interests, helping with your clinical decisions. Available via e-mail alerts or via the STAT!Ref Evidence Alerts RSS. Choose alert criteria within Medical, Nursing and Rehabilitation disciplines. More info on how to set up and maintain Evidence Alerts.

For subscribers of Essential Evidence Plus (EE+), Daily POEMs (“Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters”) are e-mail alert synopses of new evidence carefully filtered for relevance to patient care and evaluated for validity. Daily POEMs emerge from continuous review, grading, and critical appraisal of all 3000+ studies published monthly in more than 100 journals.

Search Sets
Profile - Anywhere Account users have the ability to create their own personal Search Sets. Initially, this will be empty, click [Add New Search Set] and enter a name such as Drug Info. Next click the name you just created and your available title list will appear. Check the box next to each title you want saved to your Search Set. Click the Save & Close icon and your search set will be saved. To use your search set, under FILTER BY on the main search page, use the drop list under All Titles to select your Search Set and then type in your serch term(s) and search. Only the titles in your search set will be searched for results.

Favorites
During your use of STAT!Ref you can add content to your Favorites so that you can quickly and easily find it again. Favorites are managed through your profile.

Visit the STAT!Ref Mobile page to learn more on how to turn a Profile - Anywhere Account/Temporary STAT!Ref Login into an account to use with our free mobile apps.

Core Resources Collections

Available through STAT!Ref


Dentistry | Emergency Medicine | Evidence-based Medicine | Infectious Disease | Microbiology |

Nursing | Nutrition & Dietetics | Oncology | Patient Safety | Pediatrics |

Pharmacology & Pharmacy | Point of Care | Psychiatry | Public Health | Surgery

STAT!Ref currently has over 500 resources offered in over 50 healthcare disciplines. Content available is very expansive, but below please find select Core Resources Collections that highlight some of the top suggested resources categorized by discipline.

Dentistry


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The STAT!Ref Core Resources Collection for Dentistry and Dental Hygiene includes more than 56+ resources in over 21 dentistry sub-disciplines. From Dental Hygiene to Dental Surgery, our resources cover everything you need for your education, training, and practice. Every subscription comes with an integrated free dictionary. You can select "Stedman's Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions" to complement your dental subscription.

Adobe PDF Icon  Dentistry Core Collection PDF

Another noteworthy resource available to you is from Primal Pictures Anatomy.tv. Specific content from this resource just for dentistry is being used in dental education and in dental practice's today. Anatomy.tv is the world's most detailed 3D interactive model of the human anatomy available online.

For an online list and detailed title descriptions of available Dentistry titles, click here.

Emergency Medicine



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The STAT!Ref Core Resources Collection for Emergency Medicine features some of the most popular resources in this discipline. Available via free mobile access for quick, intuitive reference during an emergency situation, this collection is offered as a set or à la carte, making it easy for you to begin building your Emergency Care e-library. All STAT!Ref content is full-text and cross-searchable.

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For an online list and detailed title descriptions of available Emergency Medicine titles, click here.

Evidence-Based Medicine



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The STAT!Ref Core Resources Collection for Evidence-Based Medicine has an outstanding collection of evidence-based resources featuring Essential Evidence Plus™ & AHFS DI® Essentials™. Essential Evidence Plus™ is a powerful, comprehensive clinical decision support system that integrates information on 9,000 diagnoses into the healthcare professional’s clinical workflows. This clinical tool, created by an international team of renowned medical experts, was developed for physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals on the front line of patient care.

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STAT!Ref also has EBMcalc an integrated EBM Calculator along with Evidence Alerts (EBM information sent via email delivery based on your selections). All alerts are pre-rated for clinical relevance.

For an online list and detailed title descriptions of available Evidence-based Medicine titles, click here.

Infectious Disease



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The robust and popular STAT!Ref Core Resources Collection for Infectious Disease features some of the most popular resources in this discipline. This collection is offered as a set or à la carte, making it easy for you to begin building your Infectious Disease e-library. All STAT!Ref content is full-text and cross-searchable.

Adobe PDF Icon  Infectious Disease Core Collection PDF

For an online list and detailed title descriptions of available Infectious Disease titles, click here.

Microbiology



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The STAT!Ref Core Resources Collection for Microbiology features some of the most popular resources in this discipline. Whether you are a student, laboratory technician, researcher, scientist, clinician or teacher you'll find this collection invaluable. This collection is offered as a set or à la carte, making it easy for you to begin building your microbiology e-library. All STAT!Ref content is full-text and cross-searchable.

Adobe PDF Icon  Microbiology Core Collection PDF

For an online list and detailed title descriptions of available Microbiology titles, click here.

Nursing



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The STAT!Ref Nursing selection is an enormous collection of over 165+ nursing resources in 70 nursing specialties, featuring specialty resources in a number of nursing disciplines such as: Administration & Management, Community Health, Diagnosis & Assessment, Education, EBN, Exam, Fundamentals, Lab, Oncology, Patient Safety, Pediatrics, Surgery and many, many more.

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Picking and choosing just the resources you need makes it easy for you to begin building your nursing health e-library. You can add more resources from the à la carte menu of our complete collection at any time. All STAT!Ref content is full-text and cross-searchable.

Every subscription comes with an integrated free dictionary. You can select from "Stedman's Medical Dictionary" or "Taber's® Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary" to compliment your nursing subscription.

For an online list and detailed title descriptions of available Nursing titles, click here.

Nutrition & Dietetics



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The STAT!Ref Core Resources Collection for Nutrition & Dietetics features some of the most popular resources in this discipline. This collection is offered as a set or à la carte, making it easy for you to begin building your Nutrition & Dietetic health e-library. All STAT!Ref content is full-text and cross-searchable.

Adobe PDF Icon  Nutrition & Dietetics Core Collection PDF

For an online list and detailed title descriptions of available Nutrition & Dietetics titles, click here.

Oncology



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As one of the largest and sought-after resources for clinical education and practice, the STAT!Ref Core Resources Collection for Oncology features some of the most popular resources in this discipline. This collection is offered as a set or à la carte, making it easy for you to begin building your Oncology e-library. All STAT!Ref content is full-text and cross-searchable.

Adobe PDF Icon  Oncology Core Collection PDF

For an online list and detailed title descriptions of available Oncology titles, click here.

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement



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Patient Safety and Quality Improvement resources are vital to a hospital's internal compliance process, and to all levels in an organization to encourage continuous systems improvement. Investing in the Core Resources Collection for Patient Safety & Quality Improvement will help close the gap between actual patient safety and quality improvement measures and potential performance capabilities within all areas of a hospital.

Adobe PDF Icon  Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Core Collection PDF

For an online list and detailed title descriptions of available Patient Safety and Quality Improvement titles, click here.

Pediatrics



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With some of the highest sought after and used resources in the STAT!Ref platform, the STAT!Ref Core Resources Collection for Pediatrics features some of the most popular resources in this discipline. This collection is offered as a set or à la carte, making it easy for you to begin building your Pediatric e-library. All STAT!Ref content is full-text and cross-searchable.

Adobe PDF Icon  Pediatrics Core Collection PDF

For an online list and detailed title descriptions of available Pediatrics titles, click here.

Pharmacology & Pharmacy



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The STAT!Ref Core Resources Collection for Pharmacology & Pharmacy is one of the largest collections in STAT!Ref and features some of the most popular resources in these disciplines. This collection is offered as a set or à la carte, making it easy for you to begin building your Pharmacology/Pharmacy health e-library. All STAT!Ref content is full-text and cross-searchable.

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ASHP’s Drug Shortages database is the most widely recognized leading source of evidence-based drug shortage information for clinicians, consumers, and health policy leaders.

Having any one or more of these American Society of Health-System Pharmacists titles, qualifies you for ASHP’s Drug Shortages a free STAT!Ref value-added resource:
AHFS Drug Information
Essential Evidence Plus & AHFS DI Essentials
Compounding Sterile Preparations
Extended Stability for Parenteral Drugs
Handbook on Injectable Drugs
Merck Manual Professional Version & AHFS DI Essentials
Teddy Bear Book: Pediatric Injectable Drugs

For an online list and detailed title descriptions of available Pharmacology & Pharmacy titles, click here.

Point of Care



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The STAT!Ref Core Resources Collection for Point of Care features a plethora of important clinical content applicable at the bedside. Available via free mobile access, this collection is an ideal turn-key solution at the point of care. Content relates to diagnosis and assessment, drug information, evidence-based medicine, emergency medicine, patient safety and quality improvement and much more. All STAT!Ref content is full-text and cross-searchable, available anytime and anywhere.

Adobe PDF Icon  Point of Care Core Collection PDF

For an online list and detailed title descriptions of available Point of Care titles, click here.

Psychiatry



A blue scrabble like puzzle spelling out mental health issues

The STAT!Ref Core Resources Collection for Psychiatry features some of the most popular resources in this discipline. This collection is offered as a set or à la carte, making it easy for you to begin building your Psychiatry and Mental Health e-library. All STAT!Ref content is full-text and cross-searchable.

Adobe PDF Icon  Psychiatry Core Collection PDF

For an online list and detailed title descriptions of available Psychiatry titles, click here.

Public Health



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STAT!Ref is pleased to offer a growing collection of Public Health resources to help you in protecting and improving the health of communities through education, promotion of healthy lifestyles, and research for disease and injury prevention. But, because STAT!Ref has over 50 disciplines and because Public Health draws from numerous and varied disciplines, we think you will find everything you need when looking through this STAT!Ref list of resources and disciplines.

Adobe PDF Icon  Public Health Core Collection PDF

For an online list and detailed title descriptions of available Public Health titles, click here.

Surgery



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With over 20 resources available, the STAT!Ref Core Resources Collection for Surgery features some of the most popular resources in this discipline. This collection is offered as a set or à la carte, making it easy for you to begin building your Surgery e-library. All STAT!Ref content is full-text and cross-searchable.

Adobe PDF Icon  Surgery Core Collection PDF

Another noteworthy resource available to you is from Primal Pictures Anatomy.tv, containing specific visual clinical content for surgery. 3D Human Anatomy as You Have Never Seen it Before

For an online list and detailed title descriptions of available Surgery titles, click here.

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FAQ




While on this site you can go to our Support page where you will find PDFs with title and product information, video presentations and product tutorials which will help you with your use of STAT!Ref.
If you are in STAT!Ref Online then the Help link in the toolbar has answers to most questions on how to use STAT!Ref Online. When you open the help page you will see the help section divided into 3 categories:
Client Manager Help
Statistician Help
User Help
Different levels of help are available based on your own user level. The Client Manager is the person within your institution who manages your STAT!Ref account. The Client Manager has access to the group's properties page -- they may view all of the group's properties and may configure username accounts as well as access the usage reports that Statisticians use.
The Statistician may generate and view statistics reports, but does not have access to group properties or username accounts.
Users have the default access level for STAT!Ref Online which they can use to find answers by using search, the table of contents and the dictionary. Users do not have access to account management or to statistics reports.
If you cannot find the answers you are looking for please contact us with your questions.
Officially supported browser versions are major version minus 1; e.g. *Microsoft Edge with IE mode. So STAT!Ref supports IE 11 and later (officially). Unofficially, we do strive to maintain functionality for older browsers which requires some functionality to degrade as gracefully as possible.
  • Chrome (Windows, Mac, Linux)
  • Microsoft Edge (Windows)
  • Firefox (Windows, Mac, Linux)
  • IE (Windows)
  • Safari (Mac & Windows)

*Please note that the Internet Explorer (IE) 11 desktop application will end support for certain operating systems starting June 15, 2022. Customers are encouraged to move to Microsoft Edge with IE mode. IE mode enables backward compatibility and will be supported through at least 2029.
Any computer with a modern browser and a connection to the internet.
Our new titles, new editions and supplemental updates are done seamlessly behind the scenes as soon as possible after the information is released to us from the various publishers.

Links to all "New and Updated" titles can be found on our Updated title page. Go to New and Updated to view now. You can also view recent title information by clicking on the What's New link at the bottom of the STAT!Ref Online search screen. Notes on title updates that have taken place are available from the footer of STAT!Ref Online pages through the Title Updates link in the lower right corner.
STAT!Ref supports many Federated Search Engines & Discovery Services. Here is a list of the most common ones:
  • • EBSCO A - Z
  • • Ex Libris (ProQuest)
  • • Innovative Interfaces
  • • MuseFirst
  • • Northern Light's
  • • OpenAthens
  • • Serials Solutions 360 Search
  • • TDNet
  • • WAM
  • • OCLC
  • • OVID
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