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Your quick link to major health care reference sources.
Want to search a bibliographic index?
- RNdex-- indexes over 60 top nursing journals; includes abstracts; free searches from this site.
- CINAHLExpress-- indexes nursing and allied health journals and books; includes abstracts; search is free to members.
- Internet Grateful Med Search Medline and other databases, including Aidsline, Aidsdrugs, HealthSTAR, and more.
- Medline indexes over 4,000 biomedical journals; includes abstracts; free search.
Want to get a copy of an article published in a nursing journal?After you search the bibliographic indexes, use this list to order copies of the articles of interest to you.
- Springhouse offers copies of articles from Nursing95 through Nursing99; cost is $5 per article.
- CINAHL offers copies of articles for $12 each.
Want to find medical sites on the Web? These sites include lists of them:
- Health on the Net--search their MedHunt for links to medical sites.
- MedGuide--links to medical sites as well as universities and libraries worldwide.
Want to find general healthcare information for yourself and your patients? Try search engines and Web guides such as:
Or try these sites, designed for patients and/or health care professionals:
- American Academy of Family Physicians--includes "Family Medicine Online," offering handouts and other resources to patients and health care professionals, plus links to other sites.
- American Medical Association --A good place for patients to start a search for medical information; check "AMA Health Insight" for a database of U.S. physicians.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention--Check under "Health Topics A-Z" for diseases, injuries and disabilities, health risks, and prevention guidelines.
- Harvard University--includes Web resources compiled by staff at the Countway Library, plus electronic journals.
- HealthAnswers.com--from Orbis Broadcast Group, includes a list of health organizations, health news, and a restricted section for health care professionals; requires registration but no fee.
- Healthfinder--from the U.S. government; this large searchable database has links to Web sites, support groups, government agencies, not-for-profit organizations that provide health care information for patients.
- Healthtouch Online--from Medical Strategies, Inc., includes drug information, a list of health care organizations and government agencies, health and product information.
- HealthWeb--from a group of librarians and information professionals at academic medical centers in the Midwest U.S.; offers searchable database of evaluated Web sites for patients and health care professionals.
- Intelihealth--from Johns Hopkins Health Library; contents include Johns Hopkins Encyclopedia, Ask the Doc feature, and Quick Health Search.
- Mayo Health Oasis--from the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research; content includes articles, reports, books, and other resources.
- Medical Matrix--includes journal articles, abstracts, reviews, conference highlights, links to other major sources for health care professionals; registration required butno fee.
- Medscape--includes articles, medical news, and quizzes; registration required but no fee.
- Meducation--includes links to organizations, journals, med schools and centers, news, educational software, medications, patient education, and more.
- National Health Information Center--fromthe U.S. government; a health information referral service, including extensive list of toll-free numbers for health information, federal health information centers, plus a searchable database.
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North Memorial Health Care's Medical Library--extensive lists of health information sites and health journals online.
- National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc. (NORD)--this federation of over 140 not-for-profit voluntary health organizations offers a database of understandable medical information on rare diseases as well as an online newsletter.
- Office of Rare Diseases (ORD)--A site designed by the National Institutes of Health for patients, health care providers, and research investigators it includes information on over 6,000 rare diseases, current research, and support groups.
- onhealth--from IVI Publishing, includes community health, news, nutrition and fitness, alternative health, urgent care, and more.
- Wellness Web-- The Patient's Network--designed for patients, this site includes conventional as well as complementary medicine, nutrition, and fitness.
Want to find drug information?
- Food and Drug Administration
- eDruginfo.com--the latest drug information for today's health care professional.
- MedicineNet.com--a medical resource for patients
- Pharminfo includes an index to articles and resources on drugs, a disease center, and more.
- RxList--for health care professionals and patients (although language is technical). Includes precautions, indications, and adverse effects.
- U.S. Pharmacopeia--from the U.S. Pharmacopeia Convention, Inc.; database with extensive information on many drugs; registration required but no fee. (Click on "Drugs.")
Want to look for sites in your specialty?
- Emergency nurses
- Nurse practitioners
- Wound care
Want to search a major reference book?
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