Hope Fox Eccles Clinical Library

The Hope Fox Eccles Clinical Library serves as a branch of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Our mission is to provide quality health information services to the patients, visitors, and staff of University Hospital, as well as the general community. The Clinical Library is located on the fourth floor (rm. 4037) of University Heath Care hospital, near the main elevators. Phone: (801) 581-4685.

Hours:

• Monday - Friday: 8 am - 6 pm
• Saturday & Sunday: Noon - 6 pm

The following resources are provided to assist you in finding current and reliable health information.

Information Areas for Patient Centers at University Hospital

• For Burn Patients and Their Families
• Case Management: Assisted Living

Ready-Reference Tools

• Address Lookups, Info on Lodging and Transportation, etc.

Finding Information for Health Consumers, Patients and Their Families

• Utahealthnet - find health information and services; especially geared to Utah residents, but globally useful.
• Medlineplus - the National Library of Medicine's premier source for quality health information .
• Patient Education and Information Resources - Patient resources from many professional health organizations.
• Consumer Health Resources from the Eccles Library Reference Staff - recommended Websites from the Reference Department staff at the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library.
• The 24 Languages Project - access many health brochures translated in other languages, in audio and visual formats

Finding Basic Clinical Information

• Clinical Trials - resources for clinical trials.
• Culturally-Sensitive Care - resources for healthcare providers who serve patients from multiple cultural and language backgrounds.
• Diagnosis and Treatment - resources for clinical practice guidelines, clinical alerts, and disease classification.
• Drug Information - FDA drug approvals, recent labeling updates, approved drug products, and consumer drug information.
• Evidence Based Medicine - sites focusing on the multidisciplinary nature of heath care including clinical evidence in the literature and various research methods.
• Legal and Ethical Issues - sites addressing the legal, ethical, and public policy issues surrounding health care.
• Practice Guidelines - practice guidelines and policy statements from several professional organizations.
• Statistics and Epidemiology - national and worldwide information about mortality, epidemiology, incidence, and prevalence.