Nursing: Government Organizations/Documents

The AHRQ is "charged with supporting research designed to improve the quality of health care, reduce its cost, and broaden access to essential services."
Includes: Information for patients & consumers on health insurance, medical care, specific diseases, preventive health, and other health issues; Reports and databases on health care quality assessment and health care costs;
Clinical practice guidelines; and Handbooks, manuals, and guides for clinicians on preventive health services, medical technology assessments and reviews.

CancerNet, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, provides extensive information on cancer and cancer treatment. In addition, there are links to: CANCERLIT, NCI’s bibliographic database; cancerTrials, NCI’s comprehensive clinical trials information center; PDQ Cancer Information Summaries; PDQ Clinical Trials Registry; Cancer statistics; Databases useful to researchers; and abstracts and tables of contents for issues of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, from October 1994 to present.

The CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) is the U.S. national reference, referral, and distribution service for information on HIV/AIDS, STDs, and TB, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The network offers access to the following databases: Funding Databases; Resources and Services (over 19,000 organizations); Prevention News (abstracts of news articles); and Education Materials Database.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) presents information about health, disease, and disease prevention. Among the products available at this web site: Health Information offers information about specific diseases; Publications, Software and Products lists CDC publications and products; some full text publications such as Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report are available; Data and Statistics allows users access to CDC reports, statistical data, and databases. CDC Wonder, a search and retrieval system that provides a single point of access to a wide variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data, is especially helpful to the users. Over 40 numeric and text databases are available.

National Library of Medicine. Over 4,000 clinical studies listed, including those sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry as well as those from government agencies. There are also pages that explain clinical trials and why they may be helpful; what is involved in participating; appropriate questions to ask; and the process of new drug development. Links to drug information and health information sites.

Health information for individuals and families from the Office of Desease Prevention and Health Promotion.

Healthfinder is the major web source for consumer health information. A gateway consumer health information web service of the U.S. federal government, Healthfinder connects you to health information from the federal, state, and local governments and agencies.

MEDLINEplus is a comprehensive web site sponsored by the National Library of Medicine that provides links to dictionaries, databases, full text publications, hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare organizations. Selections are made on the basis of quality, accuracy and sponsorship.

A database of general disability resources such as information on Internet sites, journals, magazines, newsletters, organizations, reference publications, and disability-related databases.

NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which provides public resources for evidence based clinical practice guidelines. The site has both a browse as well as a detailed search feature.

The National Health Information Center (NHIC) is a health information referral service. NHIC puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers. This site contains a database of over 1,100 entries for government and organizations.

This catalog of the world’s largest medical library includes references to books, journals, and audiovisual materials. Items with electronic equivalents may be hot-linked.

This database is searchable by food, brand name, and within food groups. A list by nutrient in PDF format cross references the foods. Also included is a measurement conversion table.

REHABDATA is the leading literature database on disability and rehabilitation. The Current Literature file, dating from 1993 to the present, describes documents and articles covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities. The Historical Literature file covers the same topics from 1956 to 1992.

from the National Institutes of Health

Medline is offered through PubMed and Internet Grateful Med. Medline is the National Library of Medicine’s bibliographic database and contains more than 9 million references to articles published in 3800 biomedical journals.