Transplantation Signature Program

Databases

Science Citation Index (ISI's Web of Science) : Provides subject and author searching; tracking of references cited in journal articles. Citation alert feature sends e-mail notices of future citations to a specific article. Supports access to electronic journals.

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews : Includes the ACP Journal Club, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Clinical Trials, the Database of Systematic Review, and the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness. Full text.

BIOSIS: Covers the worldwide biological literature; conference proceedings. Supports access to electronic journals.

Journals (E-Journals A-Z list)

General

• American Journal of Transplantation 
• Clinical Transplantation
• Journal of Heart & Lung Transplantation
• Liver Transplantation
• Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
• Pediatric Transplantation
• Transplant Immunology
• Transplant International
• Transplantation Proceedings
• Transplantation
• Xenotransplantation

Cell and Bone Marrow

• Biology of Blood & Marrow Transplantation
• Bone Marrow Transplantation
• Cell Transplantation
• Journal of Hematotherapy & Stem Cell Research
• Stem Cells & Development  

E-Books

• Braunwald's Heart Disease, 8th ed.  - edited by Peter Libby et al.(2007)
• Brenner & Rector's The Kidney, 7th ed. - edited by Barry M. Brenner et al. (2004); see Chapters 63-65 on renal transplantation
• Murray & Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine, 4th ed. - edited by Robert J. Mason et al. (2005); see Chapter 89 Lung Transplantation
• Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, 17th ed.  - edited by Courtney M. Townsend et al. (2004); see Section IV Transplantation and Immunology
• Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 7th ed.  - edited by Mark Feldman et al. (2002); see Chapter 83 Liver Transplantation

    More full text books with chapters or discussion of transplantation are available at NetLibrary, MDConsult and PubMed’s Bookshelf.

Transplantation Management Resources

These Pubmed searches are a sampling of journal literature on several transplantation management topics

Economics: Economic aspects of any subject, as well as for all aspects of financial management. It includes the raising or providing of funds.

Personalized medicine: The ability to offer the appropriate treatment to the right person, only when needed.

Practice Guidelines: Directions or principles to assist the health care practitioner with patient care decisions about appropriate diagnostic, therapeutic, or other clinical procedures for specific clinical circumstances.

Standards: Facilities, personnel, and program headings for the development, testing, and application of standards of adequacy or acceptable performance and with chemicals and drugs for standards of identification, quality, and potency.

Trends: Qualitative or quantitative changes over time, whether past, present, or future.

Utilization: Equipment, facilities, programs, services, and health personnel for discussions, usually with data, of how much they are used. Discussions of overuse and underuse.