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Now with over 300,000 Records Indexed!*

Chiropractic Research at Your Fingertips with the MANTIS™ Database

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Unlimited Online Literature Searches FREE with FCER Membership.

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THANKS TO AN EXCLUSIVE ARRANGEMENT with Action Potential, Inc., FCER Members can perform unlimited Literature Searches online through the MANTIS™ database. 

MANTIS™ (formerly known as Chirolars) is the largest index of chiropractic literature in existence. Normally it is available by subscription only, but FCER Members have unlimited Internet access for FREE. This benefit alone is worth your membership in FCER!¹

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Why do I need a literature search?

Some of the many benefits of including contemporary research findings in the practice of chiropractic are the ability to:

• Maintain state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment skills

• Have a thorough reference for difficult cases

• Facilitate patient education

• Provide support for diagnostic and treatment procedures to ensure third-party payment

• Provide support for medical/legal issues including expert testimony and legal narrative reports

• Stay current with risk management and avoid malpractice

• Provide information to help develop interprofessional managed care relationships

With the increased emphasis on "evidence-based" medicine, all health care providers are being asked to support their procedures or risk legal and financial repercussions.

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Who can use MANTIS™?

You can! Using MANTIS™ requires nothing more than an office PC equipped with Internet access. If you can access the Internet from your office, your home, or even the public library, you can perform a literature search. 

Only FCER Members, however, can search FREE OF CHARGE! If you are not already an FCER Member, you should know that through an exclusive arrangement with Action Potential, Inc., the owner of MANTIS™, you can have full access to MANTIS™ through your FCER Membership without paying even ONE PENNY extra! Check out FCER Membership HERE.

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What are the features of the MANTIS™ database?

The MANTIS™ index includes full citation and available abstracts, and includes chiropractic research from the turn of the century to today, as well as osteopathic and other manual medicine, a total of over 300,000 records! Click here for a list of the journals comprehensively indexed in MANTIS™.

The MANTIS™ database has grown to be not only the largest index of chiropractic literature but also the largest index of osteopathy and manual medicine. It contains more references to low-back pain than any other index.

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How do I perform a MANTIS™ search?

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Put MANTIS™ to Work for You

With the MANTIS™ benefit, you have more reason than ever to join FCER! Join now, and in just a few short minutes you can be performing your own custom literature searches of the MANTIS™ database. Plus at the same time, you'll be helping support FCER, a non-profit foundation which since 1944 has been dedicated to chiropractic through scientific research and chiropractic education. You can't lose. Join FCER today!

*As of July 2007.

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²MeSH is an abbreviation for Medical Subject Headings. It is a controlled vocabulary of medical and scientific terms assigned to documents when they are indexed and included in databases. These terms can be used in many cases to search more efficiently than simple text words or text "strings." For more information on MeSH from the National Library of Medicine, please click here.

Since 1944, the Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER) has endeavored to fund and support scientifically sound research to evaluate chiropractic health care. In order to protect the integrity of the research that it funds, FCER maintains a 501(c)(3) status as an independent research foundation, dedicated to education and research.

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