CU 12: US GOVERNMENT MEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATION RESOURCES

NLM Gateway

What is a handy entry point for searching the many valuable resources at the National Library of Medicine?

What provides a global search function for Pubmed, Pubmed Central and Medline Plus?

What is an excellent place to begin a search of health-related government information?

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

What is a federal agency that both conducts and sponsors research on healthcare quality safety, and cost=effectiveness?

“Consumers & Patients“

What also provides information for practitioners on such areas as disaster preparedness, quality and patient safety, datasets, and research findings?

National Institute of Nursing Research

What supports nursing research in nursing in clinical and community setting through grants and other funding programs?

Pubmed Central

What is a free “digital archive of life sciences journal literature“, and offers access to the full text of more than 160 high-quality, open access life sciences journals from various publishers?

CDC and Prevention

What monitors public health put forth prevention initiatives, investigate health problems, and promote healthy behaviors?

Healthfinder

What is a consumer health information site and is maintained by the National Health Information Center of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?

What is a hand-selected directory of the health related websites of more than 1500 organizations— government, nonprofit, and educational?

MedlinePlus

What is a consumer health resource that brings together information from various government agencies, including the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes for Health, and others?

What provides simple but accurate health-related information for the general public?

Biomed Central

What publishes more than 140 open access journals covering all areas of biology and medicine?

What includes journals on nutrition, public and international helath, and BMC nursing?

Healthweb

What is a well-organized collection of evaluated noncommercial resources ad a collaborative project of health sciences libraries at more than 20 leading academic medical centers in the Midwest?

Focuses on AIDS, HIV, and Women’s Health

Mayo Clinic: Tools for Healthier Lives

Users can choose “Diseases & Conditions“, “Drugs & Supplements“, “Treatment Decisions“, “Healthy Living“, “Ask a Specialist“, and “Health Tools“.

The medical information is high quality and comprehensive, but the “Tools“ section sets this resource apart.

OJIN

What is a free, peer-reviewed, international journal addressing topics affecting nursing practice, research, education, and the wider health care sector?

What presents timely information required by nurses and other health care professionals?

PLoS

What is an initiative by scientists and doctors to publish quality, peer-reviewed literature and make it freely available to the public and other researchers?

Biology, medicine clinical trials, and genetics

WHO

What is an excellent source of global health information, including statistics and country-by-country health overview?

Alzheimer’s Association

What provides information and support to family members, caregivers, and health professionals on Alzheimer’s disease?

Oncolink

The University of Pennsylvania cancer specialists launched this site in 1994 to “help cancer patients, families health care professionals and the general public get accurate cancer-related information at no charge“…