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These are sites of professional interest to me.
 | Questions and answers about tuberculosis, developed for staff manning a help line after a health care worker with tuberculosis was identified. |
| Information on Parvovirus B19 infection (parvovirus causes Slapped Cheek Syndrome / Fifth Disease / Erythma infectiosum). |
| Information about headlice. (Includes link to the PHMEG report on headlice.) |
| Surrey Communicable Disease Control Service's guidance for persons with hepatitis B. |
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| West Surrey Health Authority |
| East Surrey Health Authority |
| Surrey County Council, including information about Surrey schools |
| St Peter's Hospital, Guildford Road, Chertsey, Surrey KT16 0PZ |
| West Sussex Health Authority. |
| Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital |
| St George's hospital and medical schools |
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These links are now on the communicable disease links page, here.
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Sites where you can obtain on-line medical journals include:
| www.publist.com/indexes/health.html for lists of publications |
| www.freemedicaljournals.com |
| www.clinmed.netprints.org - preprints (prepublication papers) |
| highwire.stamford.edu - full text of many journals on line (albeit some only after 1 yr). Also access to PubMed articles, with single search engine. Citation tracking with email notification is available. |
| Free abstracts on line from publisher Elsevier. |
Journal web pages include:
| Bandolier Home Page | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Bugs in the News! This site contains information on a wide range of micro-organisms, and also about how they can be identified. There is a page on how PCR (polymerase chain reaction) can be used to identify e.g. meningococci. The American tone may jar some European readers, but the information contained seems excellent and useful. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| British Medical Journal, and the following other
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| British National Formulary | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC) provides FREE information on thousands of licenced medicines (both prescription and over-the-counter) available in the UK. Updated daily with new and revised information, the eMC can be accessed at: http://www.emc.vhn.net/. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov now has BMJ articles on their day of publication (as does www.bmj.com; but it also has 15 other journal articles). See also www.biomedcentral.com and http://thescientificworld.com. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Many national communicable disease reports/bulletins are available in Acrobat's .PDF format. They include the UK's CDR Weekly, and the USA's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) MMWR. Eurosurveillance Weekly and Eurosurveillance Monthly can both be accessed via the web, and they include a longer list of European Union and other bulletins, together with contact addresses, phone/fax numbers, and (where available) web sites. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Clinical Chemistry. Full text .pdf versions, and the total base searchable, and with e-mail content list to be sent to you at http://www.aacc.org/ccj/default.stm. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Communicable disease and public health (journal) from PHLS. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The Epidemiology Monitor "the domain of epidemiology in the online world". | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The European Journal of Public Health | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Eurosurveillance. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The Eurosurveillance Weekly website, "the fastest with authoritative news on communicable diseases in Europe". | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Gut. (Full text available for searching online) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| HMS Beagle: a life-sciences and medical E-Zine. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| "Informatics" - The Journal of Informatics in Primary Care | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Health informatics journal | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Health Policy and Planning | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, published jointly by the International Society of Chemotherapy and Elsevier Science, is now available full text online. To register for the complimentary table-of-contents service by email, go to: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/contentsdirect. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| "Health Service Journal is proud to announce
the launch of a new FREE on-line service today, HSJ 1000 available at http://www.hsj.co.uk/. "Based on HSJ Online's popular Links section, HSJ 1000 is a unique, user-friendly search engine which searches the content of 1000 health-related web sites. HSJ has carefully chosen these sites for their relevance to healthcare professionals in the UK. "Unlike most search engines, you don't need to learn Boolean logic, you simply type in what you are looking for and ask it to match `any of the words', `all of the words' or the `exact phrase.' "And unlike many search engines, it does more than skim across the surface. It investigates the entire contents of 1000 linked sites - if the information is out there, HSJ 1000 will find it." | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) (or, for searching, http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/pubsrch.htm). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| American College of Physicians. The ACP site has lots of useful information on it, including the "Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals" - very useful if you're writing an article for a medical journal. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Journal of Hospital Infection. From Stephen P. Barrett of Imperial College (Feb 1998). The UK Hospital Infection Society (HIS), Publisher of the Journal of Hospital Infection, is going live on the Web. You can visit the HIS web site at http://www.his.org.uk which also gives details of the 4th. International Conference in Edinburgh next September. An electronic discussion group has also been set up which will be open to anyone with an interest in nosocomial infection. To subscribe, email majordomo@his.org.uk with the request 'subscribe his-l' (without the quotes). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Trends in microbiology (possibly available only to BioMednet subscribers. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Journal of Medical Internet Research: "the International Scientific Journal for Medical Research, Information and Communication on the Internet. All papers are available free of charge from our website." | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lancet | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Medicine Online Journal is the Internet version of Medicine Journal. Non-subscribers may sample the site content by visiting http://www.medicine.vhn.net/ and clicking on 'Browse'. The Alcohol section is FREE to browse for all users. If you wish to subscribe to Medicine Online, you may do so by visiting the site and clicking on 'Subscribe'. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| MMWR | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nature | ||||||||||||||||||||
| New England Journal of Medicine | ||||||||||||||||||||
| New Scientist | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Pediatrics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary care Gastroenterology (PCSG) (UK) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Electronic Pulse (GP Magazine) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| TheScientificWorldJOURNAL | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Social History of Medicine | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Thorax | ||||||||||||||||||||
| UK Primary Care - deals with lots of GP issues, commissioning, etc | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Vaccine | ||||||||||||||||||||
| WHO's Weekly Epidemiological Record |
| Mosby Periodicals - a variety of medical journals |
| Highwire Press |
| http://www.medwebplus.com/subject/Periodicals.html |
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| www.nottingham.ac.uk/~brzaf/Acronym.htm for medical acronyms |
| www.ctisus.org re CT scans |
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| The General Medical Council (GMC) - registration of "medical practitioners" in the UK. The GMC has a web-based version of the medical register, which allows anybody (public or doctor) to search the entire database from any computer connected to the web, via http://www.gmc-uk.org/register/search/search.asp. |
| Royal College of Anaesthetists (see also Steve Yentis' starting point for exploring anaesthetics on the web, Wright's Anaesthesia and Critical Care Resources on the Web and the Virtual Anaesthesia Textbook.) |
| Royal College of Paediatricians |
| Royal College of General Practitioners |
| Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists |
| Royal College of Pathologists. |
| Royal College of Physicians |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists |
| Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Chris Oliver writes: "I have added a section "Medical Informatics Books" to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Surgical Internet Information Gateway. These books are recommended by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Faculty of Medical Informatics." |
| Royal College of Surgeons of England (Their
librarian, Don Liu (DLiu@rcseng.ac.uk) writes: The
Evidence Based Surgery web pages from the Library of The Royal College of Surgeons of
England http://http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/public/infores/reso_ir.htm : A listing of the 300+ journal titles held by the Library together with links to the Internet home pages of many of these journals (and therefore, in many cases, providing current content pages, full text articles, etc); Similar links to the most frequently used journals in the different; categories of surgery (based on the Science Citation Index); Links to free medical databases including Medline; Listing of Cochrane Systematic Reviews relevant to surgery; Details of guidelines and reports published by the RCS and other surgical bodies / societies; Links to internet resources relevant to evidence based surgery; Details of the many email discussion groups open to surgeons These pages have been created for all surgeons and the related medical community. |
| Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh |
| Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland |
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| Academy of Medical Royal Colleges |
| Royal Society of Medicine |
| Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK (formerly faculty of public health medicine) The site has some excellent online content including the Faculty blue book and a searchable database of MFPHM part 2 abstracts. |
| WFME (World Federation for Medical Education): http://www.sund.ku.dk/wfme |
| Society for Social Medicine |
| Medical Defence Union and Medical Protection Society. |
| The Health Promotion Information Centre at the Health Education Authority include a section on "Using the Internet": internet training notes for health promotion professionals" (among other things). |
| Joint Committee on Higher Medical Training |
| P. Badrinath (Assistant Professor &
Epidemiologist, United Arab Emirates) wrote on 2 May 1999: "Greetings from Al-Ain,
United Arab Emirates in the middle east. With my involvement in EBM teaching here I have
developed a keen interest in Internet and health. Probably you may agree with me that EBM
and internet are closely linked as the WWW helps health care providers to access
literature in a timely fashion from a desk top in the surgery (UK) or in the office (US)
be it Cochrane, Bandolier or clinical guidelines. Recently I presented a two part seminar
to our medical students on "accessing literature through the WWW" and on
"using Internet effectively to learn basic and clinical sciences". For the later
we developed a Web page
so that students can learn in an interactive way. I presented the seminar in the medical
school computer cluster and the students logged on to the WWW page built for this purpose
and visited the various links from there. I thought some of you may be interested in the Super search engine (one of our links) from the Stanford University, USA Which will search the internet (only for medical & health information) using up to 4 search engines and will display the results on a single page. If some of you do visit the site I will very much appreciate your valuable feed back. Cheers and continue to have a good weekend. Badri |
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| UK government's Department of Health. Other links seem to have changed. Department of Health: directory of publications and events (Circulars On the INternet) is now at http://www.doh.gov.uk/publications/coinh.html. |
| UK Public Health Observatories. |
| NHS "National plan", due for launch 27/7/2000. |
| The DoH now has a "what's new" page, and a new "ultraseek" search engine. |
| NHS Direct |
| Health Survey for England. The results from the Health Survey are available on the DH website at www.doh.gov.uk/public/summary.htm. |
| South East Regional Office of the NHS includes SE at a glance, NHS Direct in the SE, a decent map of the region, and info about HA and Trusts, regional profiles press releases , Deaneries, Education consortia etc. |
| Scottish Office |
| Welsh Office |
| Statement of fees & allowances for GPs (the "Red Book"). (Note that NHS version, http://www.nhs.uk/redbook, is no longer available, since the introduction of a new contract; but for some issues - including e.g. vaccination - the new contract refers back to the original red book, which is still available at the link given, http://www.redbook.i12.com/Index.htm. |
| NHS Cancer Screening Programmes |
| Tackling Racial Harrassment in the NHS |
| Report on the NHS uses of non-clinical patient-identifiable information is available from the NHS information management and technology web site. |
| http://www.wiredforhealth.gov.uk/ includes the schools poster re exclusion of children with communicable diseases. Supposedly also includes a paper/literature review about the evidence-base (such as it is) for this. |
| Central Office for Information: government press releases (UK) |
| The Health Technology Assessment web site (which is also available via the private NHSnet at the special URL: http://nww.hta.nhsweb.nhs.uk. |
| Medicines control agency (MCA) and the Committee for Safety of Medicines (CSM) pages. These tell you about the process of licensing drugs and monitoring their safety. They give little information about specific products: you cannot look up a product to see if it has a license at the MCA site, for example. |
| ABPI datasheet compendium: Datasheets replaced by Summaries of roduct Characterisics. These, and patient information leaflets (PILs) now available from Electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC) website www.emc.vhn.net. |
| Mims is now available to doctors on the internet (you need to know your GMC registration number). |
| Report on Prodigy, the GP prescribing support system. (Requires Acrobat.) |
| There is a source of Office of National Statistics (ONS) data: StatBase (TM) (or get to it via "The Source", the government statistical service's site. "StatBase (TM) has been set up to provide access to a comprehensive set of key statistics drawn from the whole range of official statistics." I found it rather slow. You can search it using a "drill down" approach. . I used StatSearch catalogue view. I selected (from a list of "themes") "Health and Care", and (from the list of "subjects" that then appeared) "Demand for, and Supply of Healthcare Staff", which gave me a list of topics, from which I selected "Professions Allied to Medicine - joiners and leavers". Disconcertingly, when I then clicked on "search" I got a message reading "There are no documents linked to this item at present, please select another item." |
| The NHSnet's Information Zone Discussion Board has been quite useful. I am not certain if it can be accessed other than via the NHSweb. |
| NHS Web Home Page. ?May be accessed only via the NHS Web. |
| The NHS health database is also on the web at www.healthnet.bt.com, with a large collection of annual reports, purchasing plans and strategy documents from UK Health authorities and trusts. I've looked at the annual reports from Southern Derbyshire: they seem to be correct, but no diagrams or tables have been included. It is a shame that a .pdf (Acrobat's portable document format) version is not available, with graphics. |
| NHS IM&T Electronic Library |
| National Electronic Library for Health: anatomy resource. "An on-line anatomy resource designed to help on-line study and to facilitate patients understanding of their problems or illnesses". |
| UK government health site for teenagers. |
| UK government's department of health has published some of the key guidance documents on prison health at their website. |
| National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) |
| "During 1999 healthcare professionals in the UK (both those individuals linked to
NHSNet and those linked to the Internet) will gain access to a dedicated electronic
library service, as part of the new information strategy for the NHS 'Information for
Health' (available at http://www.imt4nhs.exec.nhs.uk/strategy/index.htm) Library services in support of evidence-based medicine will include access to best practice texts, the Cochrane Library, and other services. Right now, the library is at the planning stage. The development team (Muir Gray, Ben Toth, Veronica Fraser, Robert Ward, Bob Gann) welcome your views. A web site http://www.nelh.nhs.uk describes the initiative. There is a mailbase discussion list for those who would like to discuss the NeLH. Ben Toth. |
| COPAC Update: New Libraries, New Facilities COPAC provides free access to the unified
online catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and
Ireland. It offers a single point of access to details of materials held in many different
locations. New Libraries We have recently loaded the online library catalogues of Birmingham University, Sheffield University and Durham University. This brings to 14 the number of catalogues accessible via COPAC. We are already beginning work on further catalogues. New Facilities A new COPAC Web Interface was released in September 1998 and further enhancements have just been implemented. The general appearance is very similar to the original interface, but it provides a number of improvements, including:Record display: We can now sort the records into a useful order when we display search results. Title only search results are ranked so the records that are the best match to your query are displayed first. If you wish to change the order in which the records are displayed you can choose from a list of sort options at the top of the Record display screens, then select the 'Re-sort' button. Record Tagging and Downloading: Selecting the Tag box next to each record number allows you to choose a sub-set of records for Downloading. Selecting the 'Download' button from the Record display screens allows you to Download COPAC records via email. You just need to enter your email address and select the 'Email records' button. Records are supplied in a format suitable for inclusion in reference management software. Search History: Selecting the 'Search History' button allows you to view all the searches carried out in your current session. For any search you may Re-display the results, Download the records, or Edit and re-run the search. Searching COPAC To access COPAC you can use the Web Interface at: http://copac.ac.uk/copac/ or the Text Interface using telnet: telnet copac.ac.uk username and password are both: copac. For further information or assistance contact the COPAC Helpdesk: copac@mcc.ac.uk. Tel: 0161 275 6037. |
| Caspe group |
| NHS directory |
| NHS executive's Information Management Group (IMG) (or here, for NHSNet users only). |
| NHS Confederation. The "Hot topics" option allows one to contribute to a debate about an aspect for the NHS. Its web master is James Garnett. |
| Institute of Health Service Managers (IHSM). |
| Association of Community Health Councils of England and Wales (CHCs, ACHCEW). |
| Another source of government information is the Stationery Office's web site. This includes, for example, the full text of the revised guidance for laboratory and healthcare workers on safe working with TSE agents. |
| National Centre for Clinical Audit (UK): http://www.ncca.org.uk. This newly launched site is a Mecca for all those interested in clinical audit and evidence based medicine. It's all there. One snag though, you have to register for the site in order to get in. However, once you fill in the on line form, they fax (!) you the user id and password. This took 2 weeks! The wait was worth it. In one site, you get access to influential databases and libraries as well as all the right 'connections'. (Review by Dr Ahmad Risk, http://www.cybermedic.org.) You might also like to look at Suffolk MAAG audit site: http://www.suffolk-maag.ac.uk/audit/smaag.html. |
| Department of health documents. |
| The PPRU Surveys of Disability 1989-90: "a new dataset, now available from The Data Archive. ... The Data Archive holds over 7000 datasets which are available for research and teaching purposes. Data holdings include official statistics, country aggregate data and individual level data ie survey data.Data holdings include the Health Survey for England, the General Household Surveys, Disability Surveys, Dietary and Nutritional Surveys, Health and Lifestyle Surveys, Allied Dunbar National Fitness Survey 1990, The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, Local Mortality Datapack and Road Accident Data to name but a few. All the data are fully described in a comprehensive on-line catalogue - called BIRON - available on the Web (http://dawww.essex.ac.uk under Services). Full information on ordering, costs, and forms you will need are also available on the Web but please do contact our User Services staff if you have any difficulties: Kath Cooper is on 01206 872143 (kathc@essex.ac.uk) and Kathy Sayer on 01206 872323 (sayek@essex.ac.uk). If you would like to receive regular updates about the availability of new datasets being deposited in the Data Archive please join our mailbase list essex-archive-all. If you need assistance with this contact me - Rowan Currie - rowan@essex.ac.uk". |
| Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry |
| The Centre for Clinical Effectiveness. Paul Fennessy writes:- "The Centre for Clinical Effectiveness is a new group recently formulated at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne, Australia. We provide a range of services locally, including generating evidence-based reviews for members of our staff. We can be found at: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/psychmed/clinicaleff/. From our website you can access some our evidence-based reviews, free of charge, as a PDF file. We have also put together several pages, including 'INTERNET RESOURCE LIST FOR LOCATING EVIDENCE'. Everyone is welcome to use our pages to cycle through a range of evidence-based and other internet links and databases for journals, guidelines, learning resources, consumer resources, etc. Please add our URL to your bookmarks and let us know if you have any suggestions as to how we can improve our site. We would be very grateful for your feedback." Dr Paul A. Fennessy, Centre for Clinical Effectiveness, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton VIC 3168, Australia. Phone: +61 3 9550 2726. Fax: +61 3 9550 6970. Email: Paul.Fennessy@med.monash.edu.au. |
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| NHMRC Publications Catalogue: > CP 30. A Guide to the Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Clinical Practice Guidelines http://www.health.gov.au/hfs/nhmrc/publicat/cp-home.htm. |
| NHMRC handbook series on preparing clinical practice guidelines http://www.health.gov.au/hfs/nhmrc/publicat/synopses/cp65syn.htm. |
| Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network: 39. A Guide to Guideline Methodology http://www.sign.ac.uk/. |
| New Zealand Guidelines Group: Tools for Guideline Development and Evaluation http://www.nzgg.org.nz/tools.cfm. |
| look at their monograph : "Changing Professional Practice – Theory and Practice of Clinical Guidelines Implementation" http://www.dsi.dk/projects/cpp/cpp.htm. |
| "The domain of epidemiology in the online world" from the Epidemiology Monitor. It comprises: EpiMonday -- an weekly update of news, events, and job openings, an Editor's Quote of the Week feature and Special Notices; EpiMonitor -- headlines and quotes from this international print newsletter.; Epi Wit & Wisdom -- an article of the month reprint from the new book; and EpiSource -- links to resources in epidemiology taken from the earlier print version. |
| European Commission |
| World Health Organization WWW Home Page |
| United Nations (UN) |
| Public Health Services, Health Department of Western Australia |
| Health Canada Online |
| Canada Health Ministry health information web site |
| The New Zealand Ministry of Health. Also the New Zealand Clearing House for Health Outcomes and Health Technology Assessment. |
| Official American Medical Association (AMA) H. |
| Achoo Healthcare Directory - Home Page |
| National Food Safety Database Hot Topics (US) |
| The European Health Telematics Observatory ( http://www.ehto.be/). |
| Health Canada - Disease Prevention and Control Guidelines |
| The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NCG) - sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) in partnership with the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Association of Health Plans. |
| A useful book "Managing Knowledge in Health Services" is now out of print, and has been made available on line. | ||||
| There is a database of courses in the United Kingdom on Public Health and related subjects at http://www.education-brokering.org.uk. | ||||
| Main National Electronic Library for Health page is http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/. Public Health page is http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/vbranchlibs/publichealth.asp (but this was still under development when I last looked). Primary Care National Electronic Library for Health www.nelh-pc.nhs.uk or nww.nelh-pc.nhs.uk from within NHSnet. There is free on-line access to the BMJ publication 'Clinical Evidence' for all NHS staff who are connected to the NHSnet, via the National Electronic Library for Health. The web site addess is http://nww.nhs.uk/nelh/clinical_evidence.asp. The publication is updated twice a year. Those working in the NHS who are not yet connected to the NHSnet, passwords will be available to access the service from the middle of February 2001, via on-line registration at the nelh website (http://www.nelh.nhs.uk). | ||||
| "On Monday, 12 Apr 1999, the National Library of Medicine will unveil its new web
catalog, called LOCATORplus, which will
allow anyone with Internet access to find out what books, journals, audiovisuals,
manuscripts, and other items are contained in the world's largest medical library. There are many exciting new features will be available via LOCATORplus. Customers using the catalog from the Web can search by author, MeSH subject, title, conference name, keyword and many other specific fields, then e-mail the results to themselves. Current receipts of both serial and monograph material will be displayed along with information about material which is on order or available electronically. Hotlinks to online journals will be available from many records. Direct access to a variety of other resources will be available from LOCATORplus including MEDLINE, MEDLINEplus, Images of the History of Medicine, TOXNET, HSTAT, and other U.S. medical library catalogs. LOCATORplus is part of NLM's new integrated library system (ILS) which was installed for in-house use in November 1998. The ILS is being used for acquisitions, serials control, cataloging, collection management, circulation and preservation. LOCATORplus is the ILS's online public access catalog and serves as the retrieval engine for the Library's cataloging records, replacing existing online access methods, such as Locator, CATLINE, AVLINE and SERLINE. LOCATORplus brings together a number of previously disparate databases, along with information formerly available only to staff, using state-of-art information retrieval technology. Beginning April 12th, NLM's LOCATORplus can be found at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locatorplus/ The site is updated daily." | ||||
| www.pubcrawler.ie is not (particularly) for topers; it allows you to set up PubMed (medline) and Entrez (GenBank) searches, and leave them running, showing you new results as they are added to the databases. | ||||
| John Powell, Specialist Registrar in Public
Health Medicine in the Oxford Region has set up a page of links to internet resources for
people taking the MFPHM part 1 exam (the first part of the examination for
membership of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, UK). He writes "If anyone has
comments or suggestions for the site please let me know - hopefully it will gradualIy evolve. There is also an email discussion list which can be joined from the site." You can also download my (Peter English's) Part I revision document - it is a 743kB Word97 document. | ||||
| John Powell is also, it seems, responsible
for the 'Public Health Digest' page. He wrote: "The first edition of the 'Public
Health Digest' page, bringing you topics and links related specifically to public health
medicine, is now published on Doctors.net.uk. at http://www.doctors.net.uk/802567060058CEB0/Z/32AF6?Open&30~14PublicHealth.
The page will be UPDATED regularly in RESPONSE TO feedback from Doctors.net.uk members
with an interest in public health. Initially I have chosen to cover CURRENT NEWS IN PUBLIC
HEALTH, useful links to online information, and topics for debate. Please send all your
feedback, comments and suggestions to ME ... Thank you. Dr John Powell, Specialist
Registrar in Public Health Medicine". He includes links to:
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| This is the homepage of the South Thames (East) Public Health Medicine Specialist Registrars Training programme. | ||||
| Andrew Booth (Email A.Booth@sheffield.ac.uk, home page ) has a far better set of links than mine - and also "Trawling the Net", "the less glamorous sibling of my "Netting the Evidence" site". It aims to provide a resource page of links to free databases of interest specifically to NHS staff. I would be grateful for further suggestions for inclusion. One of the sites is a page on using NNT (Numbers Needed to Treat). He has recently sent a list of packages, self-instructional materials, slides on EBM to a mailing list - they will go on his "Netting the Evidence" site but until they do, they can be accessed here. All the full-text articles from the "Netting the Evidence" site have been put into a greatly expanded "Core Library of Evidence Based healthcare" as a link from the site: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/core.html. | ||||
| For those that are interested, over 200 (free) lectures are online at http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/. I believe they will also send you a CD containing all the lectures. Many of these are related to infection control & epidemiology. Some have been translated into other languages. If you're looking for lecture material or power point slides, this site is well worth checking. | ||||
| Search engines for journal articles are reviewed by Peg Allen on this page. | ||||
| Clinician educators may find this site very useful while teaching medical students.It is from the book Bedside Diagnosis compiled by Henry Schneiderman and Aldo Peixoto. | ||||
| DISCERN. Alison Hill ( alison.hill@public-health.oxford.ac.uk, alison.hill@dphpc.ox.ac.uk, or alison.hill@phru.anglox.nhs.uk) wrote: "The DISCERN tool, developed by Sasha Shepperd and Deborah Charnock with funding from the British Library, is now available on the Internet. The DISCERN on the Internet Project was funded by the NHS Executive Research and Development Programme Anglia and Oxford Region. ... DISCERN is an instrument, or tool, which has been designed to give users of consumer health information a valid and reliable way to judge the quality of written information about treatment choices. DISCERN can also be used by authors and publishers of information on treatment choices as a guide to the standard which users are entitled to expect." | ||||
| "For researchers interested in the use of GIS in health research, and the geographic aspects of health and disease, Just Another Medical Geography Page has been updated as of October 1998 and moved to a new location (one that features no annoying ad popups). The October 98 issue of _Medical Geography Digest_ is also accessible from this site." Wayne Hall. | ||||
| "SIGLE" - System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe, produced by the European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation (EAGLE) in the Hague, dating back to 1980. Available as a CD-ROM or for online searching via the British Library's BLAISE-Line <http://portico.bl.uk/blaise/> and STN International in Germany <http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/stn.html>. | ||||
| Thames Cancer Registry. "The Thames Cancer Registry (TCR) is situated in the South East of England, covering the London region, part of Eastern and South East regions, with a population of 14 million. From this population, we register around 70,000 new cancer cases each year. The wealth of collected data allows us to produce information on cancer incidence, prevalence, survival, treatment types, comparative and trend analysis. Much of this information is published in the Annual Report [available from this web site]". | ||||
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| EBH search tools recommended by Andrew Booth, including: "a further EBM search engine ... Similar in aspiration to the Idea Database below it indexes "good" review sources off the Internet. Well worth a visit:- http://www.mcphu.edu/libraries/resources/reviews/ghindex.html." Also "An alternative approach is to use those search engines that use MeSH or UMLS language systems to map terms to approved headings. You might like to try two of my favourites: MedFinder and Cliniweb. Other purposive (not surfing!) tools I use are: OMNI (Organising Medical Networked Information) and IDEA database of Evidence Based Topics. If I've not found anything useful after checking these 4 sites then I will usually cut my losses." | ||||
| Health Evidence Bulletins - Wales. Alison L Weightman writes: e have a NEW SHORT
web site address for the Health Health Evidence Bulletins
- Wales. The site has a brief evaluation form which can be E-mailed back to the
Project Office at the click of a button. Please take a minute or two to fill one in and
tell us what you think. We will welcome, and act on, your responses. Mirror sites are still available on http://www.uwcm.ac.uk/uwcm/lb/pep and (Wales only) http://cymruweb.wales.nhs.uk/hebw. BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT: The Bulletins are the result of a collaboration between the Welsh Office, the Wales Office of Research and Development, the Welsh Health Authorities, health professionals from primary and secondary care in the United Kingdom, and the Department of Information Services at the University of Wales College of Medicine. As far as we are aware, the documents are unique in the field of health information since they provide an overview of a subject area via succinct, current and reliable summaries of the best evidence across a broad range of evidence types and subject areas. Full details of the supporting evidence are provided and an increasing number of links to these publications are now available on the web-sites. Published bulletins: Cardiovascular Diseases; Injury Prevention; Maternal & Early Child Health; Mental Health; Oral Health; Respiratory Diseases. In press: Healthy Environments. Coming soon: Cancers; Healthy Living; Learning Disabilities; Pain, Discomfort & Palliative Care; Physical Disability & Discomfort. | ||||
| http://www.healthfinder.gov/ - a good starting point for medical information. | ||||
| University College London have a Unit for Evidence Based Practice, and run an MSc in primary care | ||||
| MedSrch on LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU.
Medical Information Resources and Search Techniques. MedSrch is an open, unmoderated
mailing list dedicated to helping people searching for medical information, whether for
personal or professional use. Requests for information on available resources, both online
and on paper, are welcome. Questions about search tools and techniques are also
appropriate. Answers and suggestions from knowledgeable professionals will be welcomed
with gratitude. The hope is that participants will teach and learn from each other.
MedSrch is NOT for requesting searches or for getting medical advice. It replaces the list
GratefulMed, which concentrated on the National Library of Medicine's software of the same
name. Questions about GratefulMed software should now be directed to MedSrch. To
subscribe, send e-mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU with the message subscribe MedSrch YourFirstName YourLastName For example: subscribe MedSrch Paul Ehrlich | ||||
| Health Economics Research Unit, Aberdeen. | ||||
| www.mdlinx.com - specialty specific information. | ||||
| UK Medical search engine | ||||
| Orthopaedics textbook | ||||
| Medical Algorithms | ||||
| University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) guidelines on clinical practice. | ||||
| Gross Anatomy | ||||
| WebMedLit. Ahmad Risk says: MedWebLit service tracks new articles published on the web (either full text or abstract) by 23 medical journals and displays them by topic or as a searchable database. It also links them to relevant stories on PR Newswire. Useful for finding new articles before they are indexed in Medline. | ||||
| CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme), collaborating with qualitative research
experts throughout England, has now (13/04/99) finalised a checklist for qualitative
studies. The development of the tool occurred in three phases. Firstly we identified all
the available appraisal tools for qualitative research currently in use, and from those
determined our questions. Then we convened one workshop with experienced qualitative
researchers as participants, to appraise a piece of qualitative research using a prototype
tool. Through this crucial contribution, and by building on pre-existing tools, we
developed an appraisal tool. Finally we tested and refined the appraisal tool in four
pilot workshops, and have modified it on the basis of user response. We intend to write up
the process of developing the appraisal tool in a peer reviewed journal but don't want to
delay the dissemination of the product. If you want to have a copy of the appraisal tool/checklist please it can be downloaded from their web site address: http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/casp/ to download. The CASP web site has all the current appraisal tools and gives information about new tools being developed. Based on an email from Alison Hill . | ||||
| "Wisdom": Conferences, continuing
professional development, and clinical governance: "The Wisdom Centre for Networked Learning, Institute of General Practice and Primary Care, Sheffield University, proudly presents A RESOURCE PACK FOR CLINICAL GOVERNANCE. We now have what is probably the most comprehensive resource for clinical governance in the UK, in the form of a pack of courses, publications, and organisations. To go to it, open the Wisdom website and then got to the "Learning Resources" page. You will find a link there to the pack, as "Resource Pack for Clinical Governance." Access is also provided from the clinical governance conference web page. Or, go directly by clicking on http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/wrp/clingov.html." | ||||
| Public Health Knowledge. "Public Health Knowledge at www.public-health.com: 1. - serves as an easy to remember single point of entry to Public Health resources on the web. 2. - is continuously updated in response to feedback from Public Health Professionals and news items are posted as they emerge. 3. - provides a forum for exchange of intelligence and other resources. Forum messages can contain hyperlinks to other web, ftp or email addresses. A web-board/public folder provides an exchange point for files. Messages posted to the Forum can be cited as evidence of life-long-learning. 4. - will harness advances in Public Health Informatics. 5. - welcomes multi-agency, multi-disciplinary input. Team members comprise"observers" who email web-links and news items. Email iain@camcode.com if you would like to be an observer. | ||||
| Ask Professor Mean: http://www.cmh.edu/stats/profmean.htm. A guide to medical statistics on the web. See also Steve's Attempt to Teach Statistics, http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html, which performs all sorts of statistical calculations for you on line absolutely free. Another useful resource when you are stuck with stats during your research is: http://www.cmh.edu/stats, where you can email questions and get an expert answer. Dr. Robert Newcombe (Robert G. Newcombe, PhD, CStat, Hon MFPHM, Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics, University of Wales College of Medicine) has also made available "a set of macros ... which can be used to calculate confidence intervals for proportions and their differences using good, closed-form methods. These algorithms for confidence intervals for the single proportion, the difference between two independent proportions, and the difference between two proportions for paired data, are now available at my web address. Two sets of macros are available, designed to supplement the capabilities of SPSS and Minitab. Please feel free to download, use, and share with colleagues!" Thank you, Robert. (Offer made to evidence-based-health list members on 17/05/99.) | ||||
| Also on the subject of medical statistics, Dr Alan Hassey has put information on calculating and using kappa in a 2 page document on his website (in rtf format). Try http://www.hassey.demon.co.uk/kappa.rtf to get there directly or go to Dr Hassey's home page & follow the pulldown menu to the kappa page. | ||||
| The Doctors Desk (The Doctors Desk project (world-wide web version) or full version for those on the NHS net) "exists to bring the tools of evidence based practice to the consulting room desk". Includes links to a number of useful databases. Contact Simon Lusignan Doctors Desk Project, General Practice, St George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE, or email drsdesk@sgms.ac.uk. | ||||
| Dr Trish Greenhalgh writes: "Useful, high quality information on risk
communication can be found at the Ottawa Health Decision Center (OHDeC): http://www.lri.ca/programs/ceu/ohdec/default.htm
and in the new journal edited by Angela Coulter 'Health Expectations' - for contents see: http://www.blackwell-science.com/~cgilib/jnlpage.bin?Journal=HEX&File=HEX&Page=contents
and at the Society for Medical Decision Making http://www.gwu.edu/~smdm/.
Try also http://www.hbroussais.fr/Scientific/fram.eng.html
or http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Health/CPRC/obesity.html or http://www.seattletimes.com/news/health-science/html98/body_012799.html. And Paul says he couldn't get onto this one but it seems potentially promising http://www.adis.com/files/diseasemanagement/DMHO_7049.html (I couldn't get on it either...). Happy surfing - hope it's provided something worth bookmarking! Trish." | ||||
| Also on risk, Lorraine McCarthy posted information about The Risk Analysis Center: "... a new site containing information about the wide variety of risks you face as a human being û from illness and disease, crime, sports injuries, food, workplace accidents, travel, pollution and other risks ranging from the remote to the ever-present. The site contains a searchable database of abstracts of articles from the UK national press and international press (scanned daily) and scientific, technical and medical journals and is a valuable information resource if you are researching health, environmental or other subjects involving human welfare. Access to the site is free on registration." The site has some very interesting links, many of them chemical incident related. | ||||
| Healthcare Computing 1999 (HC99) or at http://healthcare-computing.co.uk/. | ||||
| Louise Locock writes: "I recently offered copies of the executive summary of our evaluation of PACE (Promoting Action on Clinical Effectiveness) on the e-b-h list, and a number of those who responded expressed interest in seeing the full report. We have now got a site set up for it (http://www.templeton.ox.ac.uk/TempletonWeb/www/insts/ohcmi/research/evalpace.htm). For those on the h-s-r list who have not yet come across it, PACE was a series of 16 demonstration projects in England on implementing clinical effectiveness, funded by the Department of Health and managed by the King's Fund. This is an independent evaluation of the project. | ||||
| Evidence-based abstracts and articles (medical) | ||||
| Development and Evaluation Services (DEC, plus reports) - http://www.soton.ac.uk/~dec/. (Listed by Bandolier as one of the "top UK electronic sites on evidence-based-medicine on the internet [October 1998]) | ||||
| Jon Brassey wrote: "Just to announce the arrival of a new database courtesy of TRIP. It uses the hyperlinks of Bandolier, Sign, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Abstracts only), Journal of Family Practice, DEC etc. In total 14 separate providers of evidence-based material (as identified by Andy Booth's ScHARR Guide to EBM) have been merged into this database. So instead of going to these separate sites to search for evidence-based material you can use the TRIP database. It is searchable by word in title only. At present (19 November 1997) there are over 1150 hyperlinks. The address is http://www.gwent.nhs.gov.uk/trip. The only resource available in putting together this database has been my time and the support of the TRIP chair Dr Chris Price. Therefore, it's perhaps a bit rough and ready - but it serves a purpose! But any constructive criticism welcomed. (Listed by Bandolier as one of the "top UK electronic sites on evidence-based-medicine on the internet [October 1998].) | ||||
| J. Peters wrote (27/05/99): The Public Health Section of ScHARR (School of Health and Related Research) at Sheffield University have now launched their new web site. It contains information about the current research at the section, as well as details about teaching and events. | ||||
| NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination | ||||
| The MRC meta-register of ongoing controlled trials. | ||||
| CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service | ||||
| Warren Magnussen Grant Clinical Center (National Institutes of Health). This NIH centre has a list of current clinical research studies, including a list of over 1000 ongoing clinical trials. | ||||
| Trials Registers Development Group | ||||
| He@lth information on the internet (from Wellcome). | ||||
| PubMed: US' National Library of Medicine's free Medline service. "PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 10 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals." Its URL changed early in 2000. | ||||
| The Hardin Meta Directory Medical Informatics page (The Informatics page is now - http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/inform.html). | ||||
| Wessex Institute for Health Research and Development's "the South and West Development and Evaluation Service": "reliable, timely information about the cost-effectiveness of health care technologies... At least 12 reports are produced each year by researchers at the Wessex Institute for Health Research and Development. Examples include Donepezil for Alzheimer’s disease, Antenatal screening for hepatitis B and Gastroplasty in obesity." | ||||
| The South East Institute of Public Health has
a list of public health specialists working in the region, as does C.H.A.I.N. - which can
be accessed via two sites: http://www.nthames-health.tpmde.ac.uk/ntrl/chain/chain.htm
or www.open.gov/doh/ntrd/chain/chain.htm. | ||||
| Public Health virtual library" with about 900 links. BMA Library Free MEDLINE Service. (Only free to BMA members, I am afraid.) | ||||
| DOCNET INDEX | ||||
| CHT (Centre for Healthcare Telematics) is a new centre at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. | ||||
| Visible Human project - fascinating project doing 1mm slices through male and female bodies, lots of links to projects using the data. | ||||
| Society for the Internet in Medicine. "This mail burster is for the exchange of technical and business information relating to the Society for the Internet in Medicine." To subscribe to sim, send the following message to majordomo@umds.ac.uk: "subscribe sim". For further info, send the following message to majordomo@umds.ac.uk: "help". (Do not include the inverted commas.) Their "4th World Congress of Internet in Medicine" will be held in Heidelberg, Germany, Sept 18-21 1999 http://yi.com/mednet99/. They also have a list of tutorials. | ||||
| Telemedicine forum. "we can discuss about ideas, share documents, etc. For example, we have created a documents forum to share to interesting links we have. You can include your own links and consult them." (Miguel Cabrer Gonzlez) | ||||
| "A collection of links to high quality clinical medicine resources that have recently been posted to the Internet is now available in the Medical Matrix Forums at http://www.medmatrix.org/info/mmforum.asp. These sites have been designated as four or five star sites in Medical Matrix in the last few months. Resources in Medical Matrix have been ranked according to their utility for patient care applications. "Best New Medical Sites" will be updated quarterly. "(Dr.Gary Malet, Medical Informatics Fellow, Family Physician, Oregon Health Sciences University, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, Oregon, (503)494-6734, Co Chair AMIA's Internet Working Group, MMATRIX-L Medical Internet Resource Development Mail List, "MEDICAL MATRIX"- Hypertext Internet Clinical Medicine Resources.) | ||||
| Health Communication Network Limited. This Australian site allows subscribers to search the Medline and Cochrane databases. I have not got around to checking out the interface - I was offered a free trial when I filled in the CGI. Contact person is: Hedy Sussmann - hedy.sussmann@hcn.net.au, Health Communication Network Limited (http://www.hcn.net.au), Ground Floor, 34-36 Chandos Street, St Leonards NSW 2065 Australia, Tel (02) 9906 6633, Fax (02) 9906 8910. | ||||
| Andrew Booth's Netting the Evidence Guide. "...contains initiatives such as SHPIC, SIGN and PRISE, expanded sections on finding and filtering the evidence and an experiment...... a virtual Core Library for Evidence Based Practice. The latter links together full text documents off the Web that are a key resource for EBP. Eg. EBM: What it is..., User Guides, Systematic Reviews series from Annals Of Internal Medicine, Trish Greenhalgh's new BMJ series etcetera. This slightly lengthened version also has a clickable alphabetical index so for example you can click on S and go straight to SIGN and SHPIC. Please check out my site and suggest additions, corrections amendments etcetera." (Andrew Booth BA MSc Dip Lib ALA, Director of Information Resources, School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR), Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, SHEFFIELD S1 4DA. Tel: 0114 222 5420 or 5214 Fax: 0114 272 4095, WWW: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/R-Z/scharr/ir/andrew.html.) Andrew Booth has also put together a page on related email discussion lists. He writes: "One of the growth areas in evidence based healthcare is in the proliferation of email discussion lists. Being a member of at least a dozen of these I have found it difficult to keep track of the different machines where they are based. I have therefore produced a WWW directory page on Evidence-based Health related discussion lists: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/email.html. Each entry has the name of the list, the joining instructions and a description of its purpose together with any entry criteria. I am sure that I haven't managed to catch all ebm lists at one swoop. I would be grateful for additional suggestions, corrections etcetera. BTW - For future reference you can also access this page by going to my Netting the Evidence Guide (see URL below), following D for Discussion lists and then selecting the hypertext link for the email.html page." | ||||
| List of Index Medicus journal abbreviations (very useful when preparing references for a paper or report - see also my Endnote page). | ||||
| WWW Virtual Library Biosciences Medicine | ||||
| MRC Home Page | ||||
| Three anatomy/surgery sites are JayDoc Histoweb, Canadian Journal of Plastic Surgery, and "some stunning anatomical and surgical multimedia presentations" from Vesalius interactive anatomy tutor (requires the Shockwave plug-in). | ||||
| Another anatomy site is http://www.primalpictures.com/offer/biomed (which may only be there temporarily, as a marketing ploy, to sell the CD-ROM). "BIOMEDNET EXCLUSIVE: UP TO 40% OFF AWARD-WINNING 3D ANATOMY CD-ROMs. Witness the most advanced medical CD-ROMs now. Ideal for reference, training, and patient education. ... View sample images, or download a demo. The best-selling Interactive Skeleton is the world's first complete 3D digital skeleton, rebuilt from CAT scan data. See all bones from all views!" | ||||
| Dearing report on-line. His comments on the Joint Academic Network ("Janet") on http://www.leeds.ac.uk/edukol/ncihe/nr_169.htm; and http://www.leeds.ac.uk/edukol/ncihe/nr_207.htm.There is also the National Union of Students view on the Dearing report. | ||||
| OncoLink, The University of Pennsylvania Canc. | ||||
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | ||||
| Cochrane Collaboration. (Listed by Bandolier as one of the "top UK electronic sites on evidence-based-medicine on the internet [October 1998].) Apparently you can also get the Cochrane Collaboration site at from http://www.update-software.com/ccweb/. | ||||
| Free Evaluated MEDLINE - http://BioMedNet.com/db/medline. "BioMedNets Evaluated MEDLINE has been considerably improved since its initial release, and now offers you: * Bibliographic Software compatibility - output your search results to a program of your choice (eg Bookends Plus, Reference Manager, EndNote); * Related record links - find the MEDLINE items which have most in common with the record you are viewing; * Easy author searching - click on any author name to find all references to other publications by that author; * And you can Save Your Searches - so that you can use them again and refine them by trial and error. Evaluated MEDLINE is getting rave reviews both from web sites (Medical Matrix ranks it joint best from 17 online MEDLINEs) and from its users" (Steve Lohn, BioMedNet membership secretary. | ||||
| You can also get access to various databases (Medline, Cochrane, Bandolier ...) via Doctors Net UK - but only if you are registered with the (UK) GMC (General Medical Council). | ||||
| Cyberounds (for Cyber - rounds, as in ward rounds, I suppose) is an e-magazine which "is free and exclusively for health professionals. You must, however, first register" at http://www.cyberounds.com/cgi-bin/register.cgi. | ||||
| Medezone is another site intended for medics. It's very flashy, full of stuff that takes ages to download. Slow. | ||||
| A toolkit for developing on-line questionnaires from the CAsTLe project. | ||||
| Cambridge Public Health Page. Its web-master is Dr David Pencheon. | ||||
| Public Health Student's home page. "The page is an excellent up-to-date summary of world-wide Public Health Resources on the WEB (with about three hundred hyperlinks)." It was updated (and its URL changed) during August 1997; and it now also links to a "Public Health virtual library" with about 900 links. Lucien E. Schlosser. | ||||
| Sample size calculations can be done easily using Arcus Quickstat (medical statistics programme): see www.camcode.com/updates.htm for software that you can download. | ||||
| Evidence-based purchasing | ||||
| Guideline project home page | ||||
| University of Clifornia, San Francisco guidelines on clinical practice | ||||
| NIH consensus statements http://text.nlm.nih.gov/ | ||||
| European agency for the evaulation of medicinal products (EMEA) | ||||
| Canadian health technology assessment web site | ||||
| An anatomical atlas. "An anatomical atlas has been develop (ORL) and can be visited over the Internet. ... We hope it can be useful. We are sorry but for the moment it's just in Spanish Language. Miguel Cabrer. | ||||
| www.rad.washington.edu/anatomy/index.html is an excellent resource with pictures for teaching and learning about anatomy and radiology. | ||||
| "The Interactive Patient" lets you practice your history and examination skills on line - and you can get CME points there. | ||||
| There are a number of sites for medical students - several of them from the USA. www.s2smed.com, "Student Doctor", and "Medical Student Cooperative" are some of these. medicalstudent.com is a digital library - lots of references to online text books and so on. Doctors.Net UK is another resource, which may have a student section. | ||||
| You may also wish to try the tutorial I wrote on using the internet for communicable disease control. |
HAs
| West Surrey Health Authority |
| East Surrey Health Authority |
| Isle of Wight Health Authority. Supposedly a good example of a DHA web-site. |
| Leicestershire Health Authority's web site. |
| East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Health Authority - has excellent links, which are well worth exploring. |
Trusts King's and Guy's Hospitals' United Medical and Dental School
| King's and Guy's Hospitals' United Medical and Dental School |
| King's College London |
| http://www.hospital.org.uk/ |
| St Peter's Hospital, Guildford Road, Chertsey, Surrey KT16 0PZ |
| Queen Victorial Hospital, East Grinstead. |
| Statement of fees & allowances for GPs (the "Red Book"). (Note that NHS version, http://www.nhs.uk/redbook, is no longer available, since the introduction of a new contract; but for some issues - including e.g. vaccination - the new contract refers back to the original red book, which is still available at the link given, http://www.redbook.i12.com/Index.htm. |
| East Kent Health Authority, with links to its PRImary Care Clinical Effectiveness Project (pricce) (follow PCG link, Clinical Governance link). |
| National Association of Commissioning GPs. |
| UK Primary Care - deals with lots of GP issues, commissioning, etc |
| Primary Healthcare Specialist Group (PHCG) of the British Computing Society. |
| "Whilst primarily of interest to Rural General Practitioners the following new online CME content is relevant to all medical practitioners who might have to deal with a cardiac emergency. CMENet (http://www.cme.net.au/) now has the content and discussion available online from its Australia wide satellite broadcast on the management of cardiac emergencies. Content for this broadcast may be found at http://www.cme.net.au/satell/98_cardiac/default.htm and discussion may take place via the discussion forum at http://www.cme.net.au/forum/. |
| "EURACT, the European Academy of Teachers in General Practice, is a network organisation within the European Society of General Practice/Family Medicine. The aim of the Academy is to foster and maintain high standards of care in European general practice by promoting general practice as a discipline by learning and teaching. On our web site you will find a detailed description of EURACT and its activities, reports of meetings, information on courses and conferences for teachers, contact details of council members and links to other sites relevant for teachers of family medicine." Comments to Panos Kokkinidis. |
| www.netdoctor.co.uk and www.surgerydoor.co.uk are primary care like, UK medical portals ith lots of links and information. Mark Porter is associated with the first one of these. Other sites for doctors include www..medic8.com ("a kind of medical yellow pages") and www.doctorsworld.com. |
| Internet Resources for Family Physicians - a superb set of links. |
| Database of GP websites. |
| D Huw Thomas' medical links. |
| The HealthPromis database may be accessed free of charge via http://healthpromis.hea.org.uk |
| “The Health Development Agency (HDA) identifies the evidence of what works to improve people's health and reduce health inequalities. It advises and supports policy makers and practitioners, helping them to get evidence into practice.” |
| Department of Health Immunisation web site (an excellent resource) - more vaccination information here. |
| Katherine Vik wrote, on 4 May 1999, that "The Health Promotion Information Centre at the Health Education Authority, London, UK have added some resources to our website (http://www.hea.org.uk/hpic) that you may find useful. New additions over the past few months include: Answers to questions commonly asked by GNVQ students; An FAQ answering the most common enquiries received by the Enquiry Service; An archive of issues of the HPiC Website News bulletin; and "Using the Internet" - internet training notes for health promotion professionals. |
| "I'd like to remind everyone that there is a UK based site. Which is fast becoming *the* site for resources of this kind. The charity running it will shortly be starting EuroHealth too as a european base healthnet site. I believe they're very quick to respond to suggestions and always willing to except quality content from Health Promotion Providers out there in the Community. The site addresses are WWW.HealthNet.Org.uk and soon www.EuroHealth.Org.uk. They also produce a Professional Only site called www.HealthPro.Org.uk which is hugely welcomed by us in the community. I hope all find this information of great use to everyone, Dr. M Wilkinson". |
| HIV / AIDS and Sexual Health site: Health Education Authority's World AIDS day site |
| Copy of the Ottawa Charter for health promotion. |
| West Surrey Health Promotion Service' Sexual health site for young people: http://www.wsurreyhps2.demon.co.uk/sexhealth/index.htm or www.cybershs.co.uk. |
| Public Health Inspector/EHO Web Page. |
| Health, Environment & Work, a newly relaunched website from the University of Edinburgh, Department of Public Health Sciences. It is primarily an academic site containing hundreds of pages, dealing mainly with Occupational and Environmental Health. It includes open learning tutorials, and other educational resources from the University of Edinburgh's teaching programmes in these areas, as well as a search facility and up-to-date links to hundreds of other related sites worldwide. |
| "This list will be of interest to all practitioners of occupational and environmental medicine and occupational health. Its aim is to promote discussion about current issues and to foster a global approach to research and teaching." For information about joining the list: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/occenvmed/join.html. |
| Health and Safety Executive home page. The HSE is involved with regulating e.g. work with potential pathogens, including those involved with BSE and nvCJD). HSE's InfoLine, tel: 0541 545500, or write to: HSE Information Centre, Broad Lane, Sheffield, S3 7HQ. |
| Friends of the Earth (email info@foe.co.uk for information). |
| The Campaign for Freedom of Information have made the Access to Health Records Act available here. | ||||||||||
| UK patient information leaflets | ||||||||||
| Health etc. site for teenagers. | ||||||||||
| UK Self Help and Patient Groups Web Links | ||||||||||
| For patients: www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk, www.surgerydoor.co.uk, www.netdoctor.co.uk, www.healthcentre.co.uk, www.patient.co.uk. | ||||||||||
| Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The foundation commissions and publishes research on social - and consequent medical - inequalities. There web page contains, for example, a summary of a recent report showing that geographical differences in standardised mortality ratios have increased increased since the 1950s. | ||||||||||
| Women's Health: http://womenshealth.miningco.com. "This site from the wonderfully named 'Mining Company' is a delight. There is an increasing number of women accessing the Net for health information. These women, by all accounts, are quite sophisticated in their quests. They also have the added advantage of clear objectives. 'Women's Health' addresses both aspects by focusing on issues directly and immediately relevant to women. Things like fibroids, implants, HRT, screening, osteoporosis and a host of other health issues of extreme value for young and old alike. There are hot topics, 'topic of the month' and the now-mandatory 'chat rooms'. The site does that through a well designed interface that is easy to navigate." (Review by Dr Ahmad Risk, http://www.cybermedic.org.) | ||||||||||
| www.medic8.com | ||||||||||
| Patient information. | ||||||||||
| BreastCancer.Net "a non-profit making site for survivors of breast cancer, legislators, and medical professionals". | ||||||||||
| US emergency contraception website | ||||||||||
| Planet health www.planet-health.com lay health site. | ||||||||||
| British Liver Trust - a national charity that funds medical research into liver disease and provides support for patients. | ||||||||||
| http://sids-network.org/index.htm - US sudden infant death syndrome web site, and http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/fsid/ - UK sudden infant death syndrome web site, with 24-hour helpline. | ||||||||||
| Anti tobacco sites:
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| www.patient.co.uk/selfhelp. | ||||||||||
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| "The Doctor Will See You Now. Produced (for lay people) by the same people as Cyberounds (for doctors), who claim that it "will present only original, cutting-edge, fully researched and authoritative content. Your patients won't find articles excerpted from the popular media. They won't find information that is passed from one site to another without anyone scrutinizing its worth. 'Where there's so much popular information, it's very helpful to have medical scientists who have actually done the basic research and can discuss the merits,' says Robert M. Russell, M.D., an author of several articles on nutrition for TheDoctorWillSeeYouNow.com, and Professor of Medicine and Associate Director, USDA Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. ... We all know there are plenty of health sites out there, some better than others. Many popular health consumer sites are extremely well-funded, able to run ads on television, radio and the newspaper -- we rely on the quality of our content and grassroots help from our audience..." | ||||||||||
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| Standing Committee of European Doctors: www.cpme.be. |
| NHS EXPOSED (http://www.nhs-exposed.com/). "This site believes that doctors and the National Health Service should be accountable for their mistakes. The site's aim is to being the truth to be accessed all over the world in the hope that Human Rights Abuses in the National Health Service will improve . We also aim to be the pioneer for doctors to speak out . We believe that together we are a force to be reckoned with." |
| For healthcare related programmes for psion and other palmtops see www.PDAMD.com. |
| Heather Hall has set up an extremely comprehensive set of UK of health and healthcare related links at www.health-resources.co.uk. |
| www.netdoctor.co.uk and www.surgerydoor.co.uk are primary care like, UK medical portals ith lots of links and information. Mark Porter is associated with the first one of these. |
| Medical Algorithms Home Page, and www.nottingham.ac.uk/~brzaf/Acronym.htm for medical acronyms. |
| There is a spreadsheet version of the CVD risk calculator available for downloading from the New Zealand Guideline Group web site: http://www.nzgg.org.nz/library/gl_complete/bloodpressure/appendix.cfm#app4. Other CHD Risk calculators (?or sources of the same one?) include Chris Burton's downloadable version on his lipid page, and a version that works in your brower here (The latter is on web site of Huw Thomas, a GP in Minehead, UK.He also has a good collection of links). |
| www.quackwatch.com is dedicated to debunking bad science and snake-oil treatments. |
| Swiss health on the net foundation www.hon.ch |
| Datasheets, as included in th ABPI datasheet compendium, have now been replaced by "Summaries of Product Characterisics" (SPC). These, and patient information leaflets (PILs), are now available from the Electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC) website. |
| British National Formulary (BNF) or also at http://www.bnf.vhn.net/. |
| MIMS: www.emims.net. |
| "We have just completed the largest online database of medical and pharmaceutical abbreviations and acronyms in the world. We now have 27,000 entries. If you go to our search box and type in FDA you will immediately get Food and Drugs Administration. www.pharma-lexicon.com" |
| electronic medicines compendium: http://emc.vhn.net. |
| Institute of safe medication practices: www.ismp.org |
| US pharmacopeia www.usp.org |
| Drug Infonet www.Druginfonet.com |
| European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries Associations |
| Pharmaceutical Information Network http://pharminfo.com |
| MedicineNet www.MedicineNet.com |
| Home doctor www.medetail.co.uk |
| www.medic8.com |
| Hardin MD (Meta Directory) www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/pharm.html |
| European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products www.eudra.com |
| Patient Group Directions or Group Protocols - a centrally maintained archive of approved group protocols for the supply and administration of medicines. |
| doctom.com - Dr Tom Ferguson's web site, with his medical links. Very clean (not like my pages!). US-oriented. |
| UK Medicines Control Agency www.open.gov.uk/mca/homemain.htm |
| e-WOM (electronic word of mouth) Collaborative filtering (e.g. PICS, MedPICS) http://sims.berkeley.edu/resources/collab/ & www.derma.med.uni-erlangen.de/medpics |
| Fingerprint logging from Compaq www.compaq.com/im/fit/index.html |
| Healthgate UK www.healthgate.co.uk/ |
| Doctor's Net www.doctors.net.uk |
| www.ctisus.org re CT scans |
| http://www.medsitenavigator.com/ |
| The UK National Database of Telemedicine. "We are pleased to announce the launch today of the UK National Database of Telemedicine (NDTM) on the web at http://www.dis.port.ac.uk/ndtm. NDTM is a collaborative effort of the Department of Health and the University of Portsmouth... The purpose of the database is to provide a background source of information to anyone researching the field or proposing a trial or a larger scale implementation of Telemedicine. Its publication is part of on-going research by the Department in the field. Alongside the web site, we have established an e-mail distribution list to facilitate communication and discussion among members of the UK Telemedicine community |
| HospitalWeb |
| "An index of international and italian cardiologist/medical web sites is available at the following URL: http://www.irfmn.mnegri.it/other/cardio/risorse.htm "This index include links to about 200 sites covering the following topics: Electronic journals; Images databases; Guidelines; Continuing education; Institutions/Organizations; Clinical Trials; Therapies; Meetings; Mailing lists/Newsgroups. Indexes on other medical fields will be available in the next few weeks. Best regards, Eugenio Santoro" (I think this site is at the home of the Italian wing of the Cochrane Collaboration.) |
| On-line medical dictionary. |
| Epidemiology "dictionary" on the web. |
| Medical Dictionary for Word by John Clegg. Free download from http://web.ukonline.co.uk/john.clegg/meddic.zip. |
| Mark Pallen's web page. (Mark Pallen, m.pallen@qmw.ac.uk, edits the "Netlines" column in the BMJ. Many of the sites I have included on this page were brought to my attention by his column.) |
| Medical Discovery (this page is written by a neighbour, who lived two doors away from me until I moved in February 1998!) |
| "Health crisis and the internet: an international meeting on harnessing the internet for disasters and epidemics." This sounds like it will be a fascinating meeting. It will be held from 18 to 21 November 1997 in Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia. Its organisers state that "The results of this meeting will have a major impact on communications among emergency managers during crises, and [it] is co-sponsored by almost 20 regional and international organizations and agencies." |
| EPIDEMIC RESPONSE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: REPORT. Anne-Valerie Kaninda <Anne-Valerie_KANINDA@epicentre.msf.org> , via ProMED, reported on 7/7/97 that the full report on the Medecins Sans Frontieres symposium on "Operational responses to epidemics in developing countries", held in Paris in October 1996, is now available on the internet in English and French at: http://perso.magic.fr/epicentre |
| "Promoting Patient Choice", King's Fund, London W1M 0AN; cnsh@kehf.org.uk. |
| Centre for Health Information Quality, Winchester SO22 5DH. enquiries@centreforhiq.demon.co.uk; http://centreforhiq.demon.co.uk. |
| Virtual autopsy. |
| "Europa" (European Commission Directorate General 5 (DG5)) site about how to get European funding for health related projects.( Guy Price of Derby City Council gave a presentation on this to Southern Derbyshire Health Authority on 18/11/97.) |
| International Generic-Brand Drug Dictionary of Psychotropics, Analgesics and CNS Drugs. (Brought to my attention by Ahmad Risk.) Description by the site's creator, Dr Raymot, a GP from Australia: a comprehensive list of (almost) all drugs in these classes, from USA, UK, Australia, Canada, South Africa, with cross referencing; Generic names of most drugs linked to relevant information and monologues and elsewhere on the net; All Brand names for most drugs in the counties listed above; Brand and Generic indexes (eg. click on a South African Brand, and in no time you'll be reading about the generic on some of best internet sites!); Arranged in Classes, eg. Antidepressants, Anxiolytics, etc.: Also b-blockers; NSAIDs, Antihistamines, Antiemetics. |
| "Welcome to the website of the Telephone Helplines Association, the membership organisation for non-commercial helplines in the UK. You can use this site to search for a helpline and to find out important information you will need to bear in mind if you are planning to call a helpline. www.helplines.org.uk". |
| Alan Mills at Venus Internet Ltd has made his two presentations available on-line. They
are: "Setting up a web site from scratch (Workshop)"; and "Intranet Opportunities in the Health Care Industries". They contain some links to sites and resources that some medical IT users may find useful and/or interesting. Alan Mills at Venus Internet Ltd, 24 Denmark Street, London WC2H 8NJ, UK. mailto:alan@venus.co.uk web: http://www.venus.co.uk. Tel: +44 (0)171 240 5858 Fax: +44 (0)171 240 5859 "Providing Web and Internet services and solutions" |
| Information on Cable and Wireless' NHS work. |
| IM&T site's links. |
| Sites recommended by Ahmad Risk: UK Health Centre, Olive Oil Medical Information Library, and Children with Diabetes. See this page for his description of the sites. (Dr Risk is the Chairman of the British Healthcare Internet Association (http://www.bhia.org) and a director of the Internet Healthcare Coalition - USA http://www.ihc.net.) |
| In a major new development, I am very proud to inform you that 'Health Infomatics Europe' has embarked on publishing the entire conference proceedings of the 15th Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics: MIE '99. ... 'Health Informatics Europe' will be publishing over 200 papers and presentations in full. The series starts with the presentation by one of Britain's most distinguished informaticians, Dr David Markwell (et al) "Validation of a European Message Standard for Electronic Health Records" is published today at http://hi-europe.co.uk/home.htm ". Dr Ahmad Risk. |
| Healthcare Events Ltd Website. This is a commercial site. Clare Gallagher writes: "[The website includes] listings of our current conferences and links to clinical effective, audit, evidence based and other healthcare internet sites in the UK to help you improve clinical effectiveness in your organisation/speciality." |
| Doctors Net UK is "by doctors, for doctors". You need to have your GMC registration details ready. It is now working. I got yet another free email address there: peter_english@doctors.org.uk. (You can get a free address of your choice when you register, ending with "@doctors.org.uk".) You can also get access to various databases (Medline, Cochrane, Bandolier ...) via Doctors Net UK - but only if you are registered with the (UK) GMC (General Medical Council). |
| Telemedicine and Telehealth Networks |
| Genome sequencing sites include Magpie at www.mcs.anl.gov/home/gaaster1/magpie.html (listed in BMJ in December 1998 - but it doesn;t work for me. Perhaps I mistyped it?), Institute for Genomic Research,and the Pasteur Institute. |
| The UK Autism Website "provides general information for people with autistic conditions, parents and professionals. It explains the condition, offers advice and information on support groups, conferences, treatments and therapies. |
| Fast food facts. "Are you always eating fast food and wondering about its nutritional value? Here's your chance to find out." |
| An example of audio/multimedia in medical education from Multimedia Multilingual Medical Education. |
| The Dermatology in the Cinema web site "Skin as seen onscreen...": http://www.skinema.com/. |
| http://www.apha.org/ American Public Health Association - excellent set of links, including to Am J Pub Health. http://www.apha.org/news/publications/journal/AJPH2.html. |
| http://cardiologycompass.com/ - cardiology links. |
| http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/4661/projoke35.htm - doctor jokes. |
The following sites were put together by a colleague of mine, Jill Walton.
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| UKPH Links to Health Evidence |
| Welcome to Ovid |
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| Webspirs - BNI MHIC EMBASE |
| Internet Grateful Med |
| The Cochrane Library |
| DOH publications |
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| Open Gov UK |
| The BBC Online |
| CNN Interactive |
| HM Treasury |
| House of Commons Debates - Hansard |
| Edn. courses in PH |
| South Thames on the Web |
| UK Gov press release archive |
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| Dogpile: Search |
| AltaVista: Main Page |
| Excite |
| Yahoo! |
| CASPfew Sources of evidence guide |
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