LibGuides: ASHS Physician Assistant Didactic Resources: Body, Mind, and Spirit

PA Profession and History

The Ultimate Guide to the Physician Assistant Profession by Jessi Rodriguez Ohanesian
ISBN: 9780071801942
Publication Date: 2013-09-05
Physician assistants policy and practice by Hooker, Roderick S
ISBN: 9780803658929
Publication Date: 2017
Clinical Leadership for Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners by Michael Huckabee
ISBN: 9780826172211
Publication Date: 2017-12-15

JAAPA: Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants
1999 - present
The Journal of Physician Assistant Education
2009 - present
Physician Assistant Clinics
01/01/2016 - present

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window Comprehensive research database for nursing and allied health sciences; includes full text for more than 730 journals; indexing for more than 5,000 journals; health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals, book chapters and more; for topics including nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines including physical therapy, occupational therapy, audiology, etc.
Scopus This link opens in a new window Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature – scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
Nursing & Allied Health Collection This link opens in a new window Full-text journals focused on patient care and management for the benefit of allied health professionals, physician assistants, nurses, etc.

Physician Assistant History Society The Physician Assistant History Society, Inc., is dedicated to the history and legacy of the physician assistant profession through the identification and collection of appropriate papers, manuscripts, magazine and newspaper clippings, newsletters, reports, dissertations, oral histories, and visual artifacts, such as films, slides, videos, photographs, and digital images.

Ethics and Professionalism: A Guide for the Physician Assistant by Barry Cassidy; J. Dennis Blessing
ISBN: 9780803613386
Publication Date: 2007-08-23
Healthcare Professionalism: Improving Practice Through Reflections on Workplace Dilemmas by Lynn V. Monrouxe; Charlotte E. Rees
ISBN: 9781119044451
Publication Date: 2017-02-21
Core Ethics for Health Professionals by Robert F. Phalen
ISBN: 9783319858234
Publication Date: 2018-08-12
The Ethics of Everyday Medicine by Erwin B. Montgomery
ISBN: 9780128230664
Publication Date: 2020-09-24
Clinical Ethics: a Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, Ninth Edition by Albert R. Jonsen; Mark Siegler; William J. Winslade
ISBN: 9781260457544
Publication Date: 2021-12-28

Evaluation of Medical Literature

Books
Links

Physician Assistant's Guide to Research and Medical Literature by J. Dennis Blessing
Call Number: W 20.5 P578 2006
ISBN: 9780803612440
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
Studying a Study and Testing a Test: Reading Evidence-Based Health Research by Riegelman
ISBN: 9780781774260
Publication Date: 2012
Introduction to Research and Medical Literature for Health Professionals by J. Glenn Forister; J. Dennis Blessing
ISBN: 9781284153774
Publication Date: 2019-03-25
Evaluating Research in Academic Journals-6th Ed by Fred Pyrczak
ISBN: 9781936523344
Publication Date: 2014
Statistics for Clinicians by Ahmed Hassouna
ISBN: 9783031207570
Publication Date: 2023-03-04
How to Read a Paper by Trisha Greenhalgh
ISBN: 9781119484745
Publication Date: 2019-05-06
Pay particular attention to Chapter 16: Applying Evidence with Patients

What Is Critical Appraisal? This short handout goes over the essentials of critical appraisal and its importance to evidence-based practice.
Video: How I Read a Paper! This short video goes over how to quickly and effectively read a paper and determine its clinical relevance.
CASP Checklist This set of eight critical appraisal tools are designed to be used when reading research. CASP has appraisal checklists designed for use with Systematic Reviews, Randomised Controlled Trials, Cohort Studies, Case Control Studies, Economic Evaluations, Diagnostic Studies, Qualitative studies and Clinical Prediction Rule.

Health Inequity and Bias in Healthcare

Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna Bowen Matthew
ISBN: 9781479899630
Publication Date: 2015
Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion by Rose
ISBN: 9781284197792
Publication Date: 2020
Essentials of Health Justice by Teitelbaum; Tobin-Tyler
ISBN: 9781284152074
Publication Date: 2018
Inequality and African-American Health by Shirley A. Hill
ISBN: 9781447322832
Publication Date: 2016-10-05
Diagnosis Female: How Medical Bias Endangers Women's Health by Emily DWASS
ISBN: 9781538114476
Publication Date: 2019-10-08
Tackling Causes and Consequences of Health Inequalities by James Matheson (Editor); John Patterson (Editor); Laura Neilson (Editor)
ISBN: 9781138499867
Publication Date: 2020-02-11

Civil Rights and Social Justice This link opens in a new window Civil Rights and Social Justice database brings together a diverse offering of publications covering civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans. Containing links to more than 500 scholarly articles*, hearings and committee prints, legislative histories on the landmark legislation, CRS and GAO reports, briefs from major Supreme Court cases, and publications from the Commission on Civil Rights, this database allows users to educate themselves on the ways our civil rights have been strengthened and expanded over time, as well as how these legal protections can go further still.
Health Policy Reference Center This link opens in a new window Articles from hundreds of full-text academic, trade, & popular journals, e-books, etc. in combination with a detailed health policy and professional thesaurus; subjects include Public health, Medicine, Public policy, Healthcare access and delivery, Healthcare administration, Healthcare financing and economics, Healthcare planning, Healthcare quality, etc.
Native Health Database This link opens in a new window Bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) This link opens in a new window Govt reports commissioned to assist public- and private-sector organizations in their efforts to improve the quality of health care in the United States; comprehensive, science-based information on common, costly medical conditions and new health care technologies and strategies, reviews of relevant scientific literature on a wide spectrum of clinical and health services topics, technical reports on methodological topics, and other types of evidence synthesis-related reports.

Diversity and Social Justice LibGuide

Complementary Medicine

Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Health: A Multicultural Perspective by Helda Pinzon-Perez (Editor); Miguel A. Pérez (Editor)
ISBN: 9781118880425
Publication Date: 2016-06-17
Primary Health Care and Complementary and Integrative Medicine: Practice and Research by Parker Magin (Editor); Alex Broom (Editor); Jon Adams (Editor)
ISBN: 9781299713703
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Alternative Medicine: A Critical Assessment of 150 Modalities by Edzard Ernst
ISBN: 9783030126001
Publication Date: 2019-07-12

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health This link opens in a new window NIH research to help answer important scientific and public health questions about complementary and integrative health approaches; works to determine what is promising, what helps and why, what doesn’t work, and what is safe, and provides a database of research, recommendations, and patient information.
Natural Medicines This link opens in a new window An international research collaboration that systematically reviews scientific evidence on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM); includes an interaction checker, effectiveness checker, information on nutrient depletion, pregnancy and lactation, and adverse effects for dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary, alternative, and integrative treatments. Offers CE/CME credits accepted by AOA, AMA, AAPA, NCCPA, ANCC, etc.
Dietary Supplement Label Database This link opens in a new window This resource offers nutritient content, instructions for use, health claims, product formulation, cautionary information, and other information taken from the labels of approximately 50,000 dietary supplement products available in the U.S. marketplace, with regular updates and expansions
MedlinePlus This link opens in a new window NIH's open site for patients and consumers; offers extensive information on over 975 diseases and conditions; directories, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.

Spirituality in Medicine

eBooks
Journals

Spirituality, Religiousness and Health : From Research to Clinical Practice by Giancarlo Lucchetti, Mario Fernando Prieto Peres, Rodolfo Furlan Damiano
ISBN: 9783030212216
Publication Date: 2019
Psycho-Spiritual Care in Health Care Practice by Guy Harrison (Editor); Rachel Freeth (Contribution by); Gavin Garman (Contribution by); Isabel Clarke (Contribution by); Steve Nolan (Contribution by); Bob Heath (Contribution by); Prof William West (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781784502928
Publication Date: 2017-05-18
Spirituality in Patient Care by Harold G. Koenig
ISBN: 9781599474380
Publication Date: 2013-05-01

Patient Safety and Medical Error

When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error by Danielle Ofri
ISBN: 9780807037881
Publication Date: 2020-03-23
Patient Safety Ethics : How Vigilance, Mindfulness, Compliance, and Humility Can Make Healthcare Safer by John D. Banja
ISBN: 9781421429083
Publication Date: 2019-06-25
Patient Safety A Case-Based Comprehensive Guide by Abha Agrawal (Editor)
ISBN: 9781461474197
Publication Date: 2013-10-04
Anatomy of Medical Errors by Donna Helen Crisp; Sigma Theta Tau International Staff (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781940446844
Publication Date: 2016-06-01

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) This link opens in a new window Govt reports commissioned to assist public- and private-sector organizations in their efforts to improve the quality of health care in the United States; comprehensive, science-based information on common, costly medical conditions and new health care technologies and strategies, reviews of relevant scientific literature on a wide spectrum of clinical and health services topics, technical reports on methodological topics, and other types of evidence synthesis-related reports.
Health Policy Reference Center This link opens in a new window Articles from hundreds of full-text academic, trade, & popular journals, e-books, etc. in combination with a detailed health policy and professional thesaurus; subjects include Public health, Medicine, Public policy, Healthcare access and delivery, Healthcare administration, Healthcare financing and economics, Healthcare planning, Healthcare quality, etc.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window An industry and business research database, providing full-text coverage of more than 2,300 journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Includes coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, healthcare administration, business policy, accounting, finance and economics.