Internet resources
Clinical Guidelines
Guidelines Finder- A UK database of approved evidence-based
clinical guidelines, holding over 1200 clinical guidelines. The database is updated weekly and
is maintained by the Sheffield Evidence for Effectiveness and Knowledge service
(SEEK) in partnership with the
National Library for Health (NLH).
Health for Kids in the South East- Clinical practice guidelines and clinical paths for asthma, bronchiolitis, croup and diarrhoea.
Immunise Australia Program- Provides best-practice information for clinicians and consumers on vaccination for children and adults.
Medical Journal of Australia Clinical Guidelines- Published by the MJA, these guidelines
represent the consensus opinion of experts based on review of the scientific literature. The list
is organised by broad topic area, with the guidelines listed in each topic area from newest to oldest.
National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)- A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
NGC is an initiative of
the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ),
US Department of Health and Human Services.
NGC was originally
created by AHRQ
in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans
(now America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)).
NHMRC Health Advice- Australia's leading expert body promoting the development and maintenance of public and
individual health standards. For guidelines, see Conditions and Diseases, and Public and
Environmental Health.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Guidance- A UK independent organisation responsible
for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health.
NICE
guidance is developed using the expertise of the
NHS and the wider healthcare
community including NHS staff, healthcare professionals, patients and carers, industry and the
academic world.
PRODIGY Knowledge- An up-to-date source of clinical knowledge that can help healthcare professionals and patients
manage the common conditions generally seen in primary and first-contact care. Provides access
to: Full Guidance on about 200 topics covering acute and chronic illnesses and disease prevention,
quick reference guides which summarize the recommendations in the PRODIGY Full Guidance, patient
information leaflets, and PRODIGY Drugs which supports formulary development.
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Guidelines- RACGP guidelines (The Red Book) for preventive activities in general practice.
Consumer health
Better Health Channel (Victoria)- Provides online health and medical information that is: quality assured, reliable, up-to-date,
easy to understand, and locally relevant. Information includes: fact sheets, questions and answers from
a range of health experts, recipes, interactive features, and directories of events, services, and
activities.
Consumer & Patient Health Information Section (CAPHIS)- CAPHIS of the US
Medical Library Association has links to health resources for both the
lay person and professionals.
Healthfinder- US Federal gateway to consumer health and human services links and information.
HealthInsite- An Australian government site which provides a wide range of up-to-date
and quality assured information on important health topics such as diabetes,
cancer, mental health and asthma.
Kids Health Info for Parents- Part of The Royal Children's Hospital website, this is written especially for parents,
with a similar site for children coming soon. Find Fact Sheets, medicines, resources.
Contributions or personal stories are invited.
MayoClinic.com- Provides information about various diseases and conditions for the consumer.
All content is reviewed by a team of medical specialists.
National Library of Medicine's MEDLINEplus- Find information on hundreds of diseases, conditions and wellness issues.
NOAH (New York Online Access to Health)- Full-text consumer health information that is current, relevant, accurate and unbiased. Information and related sites are found, selected, and organised by librarians and health professionals.
Patient UK- Links to hundreds of UK and international web sites aiming to provide
non-medical people and health professionals with health and illness information.
Evidence-based practice
Australasian Cochrane Centre- Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
Australian Centre for Evidence Based Clinical
Practice (ACEBCP)- A joint initiative of Flinders Medical Centre Division of Medicine and the
Flinders University Schools of Medicine and Nursing. Its primary aim is to
facilitate best practice in health care by assisting health care professionals
develop and apply the skills needed for evidence-based practice.
C2-SPECTR- Campbell Collaboration's Social, Psychological, Educational, and Criminological Trials
Register. A registry of over 10,000 randomized and possibly randomized trials in education,
social work and welfare, and criminal justice.
Centre for Clinical Effectiveness- Southern Health Care Network, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health- Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
NHS Trust, London,
UK.
Joanna Briggs Institute- For Evidence Based Nursing & Midwifery, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.
PEDro, The Physiotherapy Evidence Database- From the University of Sydney's Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy.
Netting the Evidence Google Search Engine- Searches over one hundred web sites associated with the methodology of evidence-based practice.
- University of Melbourne
EBP Workbook (PDF, 1.5MB)
- Written for medical students, this workbook covers all aspects of Evidence-based Practice.
Intranet access only.
Government
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)- Australia's national agency for health and welfare statistics and information.
Department of Human Services (Australia)- Victoria's largest Government department, involved directly and indirectly with organisations such as hospitals and aged care facilities, ambulance services and community service agencies "to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Victorians, emphasising vulnerable groups and those most in need".
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)- Australia's leading expert body promoting the development and maintenance of public and
individual health standards.
World Health Organization (WHO)- The United Nations specialised agency for health.
Health and Science News
ABC Science Online: Health and Medical News- A daily news service produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's "Science
Online". It covers world science news and carries articles from international newswires such as
Reuters, Agençe France Presse, and Discovery News.
BBC Health News- The British Broadcasting Corporation provides worldwide coverage of news about health including
audio and video, topics in depth and guides and reader discussion forum.
CBC Health News- Top stories, headlines, and in-depth coverage from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
medGadget- An independent journal of the latest medical gadgets, technologies and discoveries.
New York Times Health News- Health news from the famed New York Times. Science news also available.
Reuters Health News- News stories from the world’s largest international multimedia news agency.
Medical search engines
askMEDLINE- A free-text, natural language query tool for MEDLINE/PubMed.
Google Scholar- Search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and
articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities
and other scholarly organizations.
Intute: health and life sciences (formerly known as OMNI)- A free online service providing access to web resources for education and research, evaluated
and selected by a network of subject specialists.
Scirus- A science-specific search engine covering over 250 million web pages, including
access-controlled sites not indexed by other search engines. Finds scientific, scholarly,
technical and medical data, reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre prints and journals.
Occupational health and safety
Australasian Legal Information Institute- Provides access to all
Victorian
Acts, 
Commonwealth
Acts, the 
Victorian
Regulations, and the 
Commonwealth
Regulations in full text online.
Worksafe Victoria- See the
Codes
of Practice (print copies available from library)
and the relevant Occupational Health & Safety 
Acts and Regulations (print
copies available from library).
Reference
APA Style Guide- Style rules and guidelines of the American Psychological Association.
Includes style tips, electronic referencing, and ethics of publication.
Bartleby.com - general reference books- Gray's Anatomy, Roget's Thesaurus, Strunk's Style Guide, Bartlett's Quotations, etc.
Columbia Guide to Online Style- Presents both a humanities and a scientific style for electronically-accessed
resources. Styles used are based on the MLA, Chicago, APA and CBE citation conventions.
Free Medical Books- Provided by the same group who offer
Free
Medical Journals, this site is "dedicated to the promotion of
free access to medical books over the Internet". Subscribe to "Book
Alert" and be informed of all new additions.
Instructions for Authors- Contains links to Web sites which provide instructions to authors for
hundreds of journals in the health sciences. All links are to "primary
sources", that is, to sites of publishers or organizations having
editorial responsibilities for particular titles.
NCBI Journal Browser- Find the full journal title from abbreviations, or abbreviations from the full title. From the National
Center for Biotechnology Information.
Onelook dictionary- Define and translate words, use wildcards to match letter patterns, or use the Reverse Dictionary
feature to get a list of terms related to your search concept. Search results are categorised by subject,
including general, medical, science etc. Customise the interface, and add to your toolbar (IE), or
install as an extension to your search box (Firefox).
onlinenewspapers.com- "Thousands of world newspapers at your fingertips".
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals- Guidelines for the format of manuscripts submitted to journals, stating the ethical principles in the
conduct and reporting of research, and recommendations relating to specific elements of editing and writing.
Statistics
Australian Bureau of Statistics- Australia's official statistical organisation.
Victorian Government Health Information: Perinatal- Incorporates The Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity (CCOPMM), The Victorian Perinatal Data Collection Unit (VPDCU), and the Birth Defects Register (BDR).
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