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Free Medical Journals.com

http://freemedicaljournals.com/

ChildStats.gov

http://www.childstats.gov/
The official web site of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.

OKDHS (Oklahoma Department of Human Services)

http://www.okdhs.org/
Annual Report: Includes tables, statistics, etc. Call #HV86.O516A LRC-R

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC)

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/

Statistical Abstracts of the United States

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
Also available in print, call number HA202.S72 LRC-R

U.S. Census Bureau

http://www.census.gov
Provides complete statistics. State and local information are available.

 

Reference Resources for Locating Web Sites

How to Find Health Information on the Internet

Call # W22.1M465H 1998 LRC-R
Provides extensive lists of web resources. Watch particularly for government resources and official organizations pages.

Internet Resources for Nurses

Call # W26.I617 LRC-R

 

 

EBP Organizations and Databases

 

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)

http://www.ahrq.gov/

AGREE (Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation) Research Trust

http://www.agreetrust.org

Bandolier - "Evidence based thinking about healthcare"

http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/knowledge.html

CRD Databases - Center for Reviews and Dissemination

http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/
Search DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews and Dissemination), NHS EED and HTA. Provides access to more than 12,000 abstracts and 12,000 summaries. more info.

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM)

http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/

Cochrane Collaboration

http://www.cochrane.org/

Guidelines International Network

http://www.g-i-n.net/

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement Guidelines (ICSI)

http://www.icsi.org/

Joanna Briggs Institute

http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au/about/home.php

National Guideline Clearinghouse

http://www.guideline.gov/

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

http://www.nice.org.uk/

Oncology Nursing Society: Evidence Based Practice Resource Area (EBPRA)

http://onsopcontent.ons.org/toolkits/evidence/index.shtml

Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO): Nursing Best Practice Guidelines

http://www.rnao.org/Page.asp?PageID=861&SiteNodeID=133

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)

http;//www.sign.ac.uk/index.html

University of Iowa College of Nursing Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center (GNIRC)—Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines

http://www.nursing.uiowa.edu/products_services/evidence_based.htm
 

 

 

Other Nursing Sites

 

Addiction Search

http://www.addictionsearch.com

AIDS Info

http://aidsinfo.nih.gov

AHIMA: American Health Information Management Association

http://www.ahima.org/

American Association of Medical Assistants

http://www.aama-ntl.org/

American Medical Association

http://www.ama-assn.org/

ANA Nursing World

http://www.nursingworld.org/about/ 
American Nurses Association (ANA) "represents the interests of the nation's 2.7 million registered nurses through its 54 constituent state and territorial associations and over 150,000 members."

Bioethics.net

http://bioethics.net/

CAAHEP: Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs

http://www.caahep.org/

Cancer Mortality Maps & Graphs (National Cancer Institute)

http://www3.cancer.gov/atlasplus/

CDC: Center for Disease Control and Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/

The Diabetes Dictionary

http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/diabetes/pubs/dmdict/dmdict.htm

Drug Information Portal

http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/drugportal.jsp
"Quick access to over 12,000 selected drugs.""

Encyclopedia of Psychology

http://www.psychology.org/

Food and Drug Administration

http://www.fda.gov/

Global Health.gov

http://globalhealth.gov

HEAL: Health Education Assets Library

http://www.healcentral.org/services/servicesCollectionsList.jsp
Provides access to tens of thousands of images, video clips, animations, presentations, and audio files that support healthcare education

Inside Cancer: Multimedia guide to Cancer Biology

http://www.insidecancer.org/

Intute: Helath & Life Sciences

http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/
Provides "access to the very best web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists." Includes more than 31,000 resource descriptions to browse or search.

Land of Medical Links by Joe Buenker

http://www.west.asu.edu/jbuenke/medicine/

Medical Library Association's Nursing & Allied Health Resources Section

http://nahrs.mlanet.org/

MEDLINE

http://www.nlm.nih.gov

MEDLINEplus: Drug Information

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html

Merck & Company: The Merck Manuals

http://www.merck.com/pubs
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (18th edition)

National Guideline Clearinghouse

http://www.guideline.gov/

National Institutes of Health

http://www.nih.gov/

National League for Nursing

http://www.nln.org/

National Library of Medicine

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT)

http://www.nremt.org

Nutrition.gov

http://www.nutrition.gov/

Scirus

http://scirus.com/
A comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. "With over 450 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information."

State Health Facts Online

http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?
Provided free by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Subject Directories
Librarians' Internet Index: Nursing
Librarians' Internet Index: Health & Medicine

http://lii.org/search/file/healt