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AMED, a unique bibliographic database produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library covers a selection of journals in three separate subject areas: professions allied to medicine, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, speech and language therapy, and podiatry; complementary medicine; and palliative care.

All records have basic bibliographic information; many articles published from 1995 onwards have abstracts. Current policy is to include authors' abstracts where available.

Each record includes controlled indexing terms using the AMED Thesaurus based on MeSH (Medline indexing terms). The software provided to search AMED usually includes an option of searching using the thesaurus.

AMED covers relevant references to articles from around 596 journals, many not indexed by other biomedical sources. The scope of coverage is mainly European with the majority of titles in English. In addition to the specialist journals on AMED's subjects, a range of key general journals are checked for relevant articles.

Product Description	Updated	Access	Status	Platform
AMED - Allied and Complementary Medicine Database	Monthly	Internet	Released	Ovid
Allied & Complementary Medicine Database	Monthly	Internet,Local	Released	SilverPlatter

• Medline (1950-Date)
• PsycINFO
• Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
• Stroke
• Spine
• Embase 1980-date
• Circulation
• Hypertension
• American Journal of Occupational Therapy
• Nursing Research