Steve Teich's Miscellaneous Health Sites
Links to miscellaneous health-related resources.
- OHSU Ovid Databases
- A variety of databases provided by OHSU, including Medline, Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health, PsychLit, HealthStar, Current Contents. Links to full text for selected journals. Password required. All Oregon-licensed health professionals are eligible for free passwords. Call (800) 328-2422 (503 494-2222 in Portland area).
- Ovid Tutorial
- Learn how to use OHSU's Ovid databases with this interactive tutorial. A terrific investment of about 40 minutes.
- Ovid Basics Guide
- From Duke University Medical Center Library. A succinct overview of how things work in Ovid's Medline database.
- PubMed
- The National Library of Medicine's free Medline search system. Easy to use. Good for "quick and dirty" searches. Use "Clinical Queries" feature to zero in on diagnosis, therapy, etiology, prognosis.
- NLM Gateway Search
- Allows searching in several NLM databases, including MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE.
- CliniWeb
- Search or browse to find quality links for diseases and anatomical terms. Automated PubMed searches for each term.
- National Guideline Clearinghouse
- Probably the best place to start if you're looking for evidence-based clinical practice
guidelines. Sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in partnership
with the AMA and the American Association of Health Plans. Allows you to compare guidelines on similar subjects from different sources.
- HSTAT - Health Services/Technology Assessment Text
- From the National Library of Medicine. Provides full text of NIH consensus conference reports, AHCPR guidelines and evidence reports, Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, more. Easy-to-use search feature.
- eMedicine
- An excellent beginning to what is expected to be a well-rounded collection of online, professional level texts.
- JADE
- Journal Abstracts Delivered Electronically. Plug in your search subject (not an especially useful interface), and you'll get weekly updates via e-mail. Weekly updates by journal title (a much better interface) is a painless way to set up a table of contents alert service. X-ray and case of the week are also available.
- BioMedNet Magazine
- BioMedNet's online, fortnightly magazine. Sorta like Nature, but without the cachet. Then again, it's free. BioMedNet, itself, purports to be a one-stop shopping site for all things biomedical. It tries hard, not always with great success.
- HighWire Press
- Bills itself as "one of the two largest free full-text science archives on earth." Thousands of journals, over 200,000 articles. It's amazing what you can find, especially if you're looking for something older than one year. From Stanford University. FYI, the largest is NASA's Astrophysics Data System.
- FreeMedicalJournals.com
- Not as comprehensive as HighWire, but easier to navigate.
- Periodici Elettronici Biomedici
- A comprehensive collection of links to medical journals. Indicates what is available for each: full-text, abstracts, or tables of contents. Well-maintained and easy to navigate.
- Evidence Based Medicine Toolkit
- If you want to improve your literature searching by incorporating evidence based medicine techniques, here's where to go. From the University of Alberta.
- Evidence-Based Practice Internet Resources
- An excellent assortment of links. From McMaster University.
- Opioids and Chronic Non-Malignant Pain: A Clinician's Handbook
- An easy to use handbook on managing chronic pain. Links to additional Web resources.
- CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
- Easy way to search for clinical trials, along with e-mail notification service. Also lists FDA drug therapy approvals.
- NIH Office of Rare Diseases
- Links to information about rare diseases and conditions, including clinical trials.
- Medical Algorithms Project
- Collection of more than 1000 medical algorithms implemented in MS Excel. Individual algorithms along with associated references and descriptions are combined into one of 42 chapters. Each chapter is compressed into a single zip file for rapid transmission. Not as complicated as it sounds. Search feature and related links add value.
- EthnoMed
- Contains information about cultural beliefs, medical topics and other issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle. Though incomplete, a good beginning.
- Travelers' Health
- From CDC. News, general guidelines, and more. A good place to start.
- Frontiers in Biomedicine Tumor Atlas
- Not comprehensive, but concisely covers several areas, including reproductive organs, gastrointestinal tract, eyes, hematopoietic system, endocrine system, skin, urinary tract, breast.
- Electronic CME
- Classified listing, including accrediting institution, audience, cost, and hours. Course content description is especially helpful.
- Wageweb
- Database of salary information as of mid-2000 for various positions, inlcuding 27 in health care. Benefits not included.
- Medicine and the Law
- Information about medical malpractice, litigation, standards of care. Targeted at lawyers, but ....
- HealthPathfinder
- From the University of Houston's Health Law and Policy Institute. Selected, annotated links to resources for health law, health policy, and general health. Annoyingly slow to load.
- Medicare Personal Plan Finder
- Loads of information for those interested in managed care. Allows comparison between managed care options within a given zip code.
- USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
- Searchable database of foods, showing nutrient values. Comprehensive coverage.
- Nursing Home Compare
- From the Health Care Financing Administration. Search by state, county, city. Contains information about compliance with federal regulations on every Medicare/Medicaid certified nursing home in the country. Be sure to read the scope/severity definitions.
- Quackwatch
- Billed as "your guide to health fraud, quackery,and intelligent decisions," and that's what it is. Essays, usually on the brief side and always well written, on questionable products, practices, advertisements, organizations, etc. Searchable.
- HealthGrades.com
- Here's an easy way to find out how well patients fare at hospitals in a given area. Organized by procedure/diagnosis and geographic location. You may not agree with the rankings, but HG explains the methodology and results. Information about physicians and health plans also. Formerly HealthCareReportCards, the name must have been too long.
- MSDS-SEARCH
- Claims to be "the most comprehensive single source of information" for material safety data sheets. Believe it.
- Medical Humanities
- Medicine as it relates to literature, art, ethics and history. Not comprehensive, but fascinating nonetheless. From New York University.
- Lots of Links
- Top Web resources suggested by medical librarians and health educators. From the National Network of Libraries of Medicine/Pacific Northwest Region.
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Steve Teich
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