Medical Laboratory Technology

Books

Books, reference books and audiovisual materials about Medical Laboratory Technology are in the RM 37-56.5 and R 855-855.5 sections of the library. The following keywords or subject headings may be helpful in finding relevant books:

• Blood--Examination
• Blood banks
• Body fluids--Analysis
• Clinical biochemistry
• Clinical chemistry
• Diagnosis, Laboratory
• Diagnostic microbiology
• Hematology
• Hemostasis
• Immunodiagnosis
• Immunology
• Medical laboratories
• Medical laboratory technology
• Medical microbiology
• Medicine--Dictionaries
• Medicine--Encyclopedias
• Pathology

Academic Search Complete Index, abstracts, and full text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study.

Biological Abstracts contains abstracts and citations to journal items focusing on vital biological and medical research findings, pharmacological studies, and discoveries of new organisms. BIOSIS Previews also covers international meetings, review articles, books, and monographs.

CINAHL provides indexing for journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and allied health disciplines.

Digital Media Center provides multimedia resources of OhioLINK, including Images MD.

Electronic Journal Center Full text journals online. For Medical Laboratory related articles, click on "Health Sciences and Medicine " or "Life Sciences."

HealthSource: Consumer Edition is a rich collection of consumer health information.

HealthSource: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals. This database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides monographs for U.S. prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps and other materials to create the definitive international database for the history of science, technology, and medicine.

MEDLINE contains the most recent years of the National Library of Medicine's online database of references to journal articles in the health sciences. Coverage includes medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.

Science Citation Index Expanded provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in approximately 5,900 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 150 disciplines.

Web Resources

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://www.psnet.ahrq.gov/content.aspx?taxonomyID=334
Provides access to various studies in pathology and laboratory medicine.

American Society for Clinical Pathology
http://www.ascp.org/
Provides information for clinical laboratory professionals

Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/ResourcesforYou/HealthcareProviders/default.htm
The CBER, part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, regulates the collection of blood and blood components.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention
http://cdc.gov/
Provides information and statistics on various diseases and conditions.

Guide to Diagnostic Tests
http://www.health.harvard.edu/diagnostic-tests/
Harvard Medical School provides a guide to diagnostic tests.

Lab Tests Online
http://www.labtestsonline.org/
Award-winning "public resource on clinical lab testing from the laboratory professionals who do the testing." Lists of all tests, diseases and conditions, and screening recommended for various segments of the population.

Laboratory Medicine Profession
http://www.ascp.org/MainMenu/laboratoryprofessionals/CareerCenter.aspx
Provides various career exploratory materials for laboratory professionals. Links to the ASCP Wage and Vacancy Survey of U.S. Medical Laboratories.

Martindale's Laboratory Tests, Diagnostics & Protocols Center
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Reference_3_LabP.html
Provides links to educational resources by subject.

National Guideline Clearinghouse
http://www.guideline.gov/browse/by-topic-detail.aspx?id=32244
Provides culture technique guidelines.

PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=ohiolink
Provides linkage of OhioLINK databases to the comprehensive listings of the online version of MEDLINE.