Antibiotic Utilization Guidelines-1995, Medical College of Wisconsin - intended to promote selective, cost effective use of antimicrobials, and to serve as Drug Use Evaluation criteria for antibiotic audits.
Antibiotic Guide Free registration required. PDA format available.
LEXI-COMP drug information system, a robust licensed resource. PDA format available.
MD Consult - contains Mosby's GenRx drug reference featuring information on over 30,000 medications. Searchable by generic or product name, disease or condition.
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RxList: The Internet Drug Index - listings of brand name, generic name, and category; the 200 most frequently prescribed drugs in America; interactions database, and more.
Stat-Ref collection of drug texts
U. S. Pharmacopeia (USP) - contains Standard Elements, a searchable and browsable database of descriptions, precautions, and side effects of over 750 generic drugs; medication counseling behavior guidelines; Quality Review, a bimonthly case studies review; and Just Ask! , a set of consumer brochures on proper medicine use.
Emergency MedicineAssociation of Emergency Physicians - provides information about AEP, membership, policy statements, CME and links
CDC Injuries and Violence - organization information, firearm injuries facts, suicide facts, etc.
Emergency Medicine and Primary Care Home Page by EMBBS - EKG Cases, Academic Emergency Medicine pearls, Challenging Clinical Cases, Physician E-Mail addresses, Best Picks of the Medical Web, Orthopedics.
EthicsBioethics Resources on the Web - National Institutes of Health - "contains a broad collage of annotated web links . . . for those with an interest in bioethics including research involving human participants, medical and healthcare ethics, and the implications of genetics and biotechnology."
bioethics.net - news, articles, commentary on current issues in bioethics
National Reference Center for BioEthics Literature - holdings represent the world's largest collection related to ethical issues in medicine and biomedical research. This collection functions both as a reference library for the public and as an in depth research resource for scholars from the U.S. and abroad.
Family Medicine, Internal Medicine & Primary CareAmerican Board of Internal Medicine - dates and fees for certifying exams, verification of certification, policies and procedures, publications and statistics
North American Primary Care Research Group - multi-disciplinary organisation to foster primary care research
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine - information for residency directors and other family medicine faculty
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Genetics
National Center for Biotechnology Information - access to Entrez, the NLM genetic sequencing database
OMIM Home Page - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
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Gynecology/Obstetrics
National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
OBGYN.net: The Universe of Women's Health
Women's Health - from the New York Times - an in-depth, searchable resource covering 29 topics of health concern, from nutrition to cancer to menopause. Includes several original features, archival New York Times content, licensed material from The Harvard Guide to Women's Health and The New Our Bodies Ourselves
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Hospitals
American Hospital Association - Home Page- AHA news, legislation, public policy, reimbursement, insurance
Hospital Administration
HospitalWeb - directory of hospital web sites
U.S. News Online: America's Best Hospitals 2006
ICD-9-CM
ICD-9-CM Coding Ref.(UCD Med Informatics) 2007
Medical Search Engines/Meta-sites
Search engines are the powerful Internet tools used to identify Web sites on particular topics. In addition to general search services such as Yahoo and Alta Vista, a variety of search engines available free of charge are specifically geared to the medical field.
Hardin MD - Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources - a massive but well organized site from the University of Iowa is catalogued by specialty
HealthWeb - provided by the health sciences librarians and information professionals from the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago
Martindale's Health Science Guide
MedWeb: Biomedical Internet Resources - an extensive listing of evaluated sites from the Emory University Medical Library.
Medical World Search - this search engine's strongest feature is its indexing. When a keyword is entered, the engine also retrieves any synonyms for the search terms. Medical World Search uses the medical thesaurus developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as part of their Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) project. The UMLS thesaurus combines different medical vocabularies, such as the NLM's own Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9-CM), the Systematic Nomenclature for Medicine (SNOMED), and the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT).
WWW VL: Biosciences: Medicine: Other Medical Indices
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Neurology
HealthWeb : Neurology
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Ophthalmology
American Academy of Ophthalmology
American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
Internet Ophthalmology
Karolinska Disease Categorization - Eye Diseases - a systematic disease classification of Internet resources for laymen, healthcare professionals and scientists. Presented by a medical librarian team at Sweden's Karolinska Institute (MM).
Review of Ophthalmology - clinical, patient care, and practice management topics that include ophthalmic surgical techniques and managed care issues (MM).
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Orthopedics
American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
Musculoskeletal Diseases (Diseases and Disorders)
OWL - Orthopedic Web Links
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Otorhinolaryngology
Association for Research in Otolaryngology News
Baylor Otorhinolaryngology Grand Rounds Archive
ENTnet - American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surger - information for both physicians (Members Only section for physicians requires membership in the Academy and registration to obtain online password) and patients. Physicians can obtain information on clinical indicators, practice management, various discussion boards, legislative alerts, and job classifieds. Consumers information on smell and taste disorders, snoring treatments, sinusitis, tinnitus, detecting hearing problems in infants, etc. A virtual museum offers displays of their museum's collections.The site has an excellent Web Links page to other internet sites for otolaryngology (BS).
Otolaryngology Statements and Practice Guidelines
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases National Guideline Clearinghouse - structured summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
Otolaryngology Resources on the Internet - from the Baylor College of Medicine Dept of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences. Contains information on organizations, outcomes, educational resources, etc.
Smell Database- database of information on chemicals with interesting/important odors, many of which are components of food and beverages or are produced by biological organisms
Textbooks: Quinn's Electronic ENT Textbook
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Pathology
Pathology Atlas at Connecticut
Pathology Case Database at Pittsburgh
Virtual Autopsy - a virtual tour of seven autopsies. Each case contains nearly a dozen detailed color images of key parts (including tissues) of the human anatomy with hyperlinks to further information. Cause of Death is a self-assessment quiz students may take after "performing" each autopsy
WebPath: The Internet Pathology Laboratory- this electronic resource includes over 1900 images along with text, tutorials, and laboratory exercises that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions
Textbooks: Laboratory Handbook Test Guide UT-HMS
Handbook of Clinical Tests University of Michigan
Robbins: Pathologic Basis of Disease
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Pediatrics
Ambulatory Pediatric Association - teaching, research and patient care in general pediatrics. Includes a Resource Manual for the General Pediatric Clerkship Curriculum (BS)
Children's Health Topics - the American Academy of Pediatrics
Harriet Lane Handbook - MD Consult
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine - includes a Rare Case Registry, an Evidence Based Journal Club, a Pediatric Critical Care Textbook, a Mechanical Ventilator Simulator (BS).
PedsCCM: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Virtual Paediatric Hospital
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Practice Guidelines
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)- AHCPR's Clinical Practice Guidelines Online; click on "Clinical Information."
CDC Recommends - a compendium of all of the official guidelines and recommendations
published by the CDC for the prevention of diseases, injuries, and disabilities.
MD Consult
National Guideline Clearinghouse
PubMed click on limit, then publication type "practice guideline" in MEDLINE
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Psychiatry
Psychiatry Matters
Psychiatry Online
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Radiology
BrighamRAD Home Page - From the Brigham and Women's Hospital radiology department, in affiliation with the Harvard Medical School. Teaching Cases: 125 cases. Finding-the-path: 50 ED patient presentations with an interactive format to select the appropriate diagnostic workup for the patient. Surgical Planning Lab Case of the Month: neurosurgical cases with 3D images. Atlases.
Martindale's Radiology Center
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Rheumatology
American College of Rheumatology Home Page- member services, patient info, news releases, research, links, discussion groups
Ankylosing Spondyloarthropathy -provides information about ankylosing spondylitis, Reiter's syndrome, psoriatic arthritis, arthritis associated with inflammatory bowel disease and undifferentiated spondylarthropathy.
Arthritis Foundation- frequently asked questions about arthritis, ordering information for free literature about various arthritis-related topics, as well as pointers to other internet resources
Arthritis Society - current and practical information to help those with arthritis and improve their quality of life
Statistics (see also CDC Reports)
Bureau of Labor Statistics - job-related injuries and illnesses
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - data on healthcare trends, utilization, expenditures, Medicare & Medicaid statistics
Community Health Status Indicators health data for all 3,082 US counties includes Population Characteristics, Leading Causes ofDeath, Vulnerable Populations, Environmental Health, and Access to Care
Eastcentral Pennsylvania AHEC Health Resources [counties of Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton, and Schuylkill]
National Center for Health Statistics - the primary federal organization responsible for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of health statistics
Statistical Resources on the Web - University of Michigan Documents Center
US Census Bureau - links to socioeconomic information, such as age data, characteristics of at-home workers, population characteristics by zip code, etc.
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