Oregon Health & Science University Resources

Ovid Databases

www.ohsu.edu/library/ovid/
MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO available to all Oregon licensed health professionals. Includes over 160 full-text journals. Requires a password. To receive a password go to http://www.ohsu.edu/orhp/.

OHSU Catalog

catalogs.ohsu.edu/
See what books and journals are available at OHSU.

Resources for Non-OHSU Oregon Licensed Health Professionals

www.ohsu.edu/library/offcampus/nonohsu.shtml
A web page set up with links to OHSU resources available as well as other sites the OHSU Librarians find of special interest to health professionals.

MEDLINE and Other Databases

Ovid Databases

www.ohsu.edu/library/ovid/
MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO available to all Oregon licensed health professionals. Includes over 160 full-text journals. Requires a password. To receive a password go to http://www.ohsu.edu/orhp/.

PubMed

pubmed.gov
The primary free source to search the medical literature; includes MEDLINE, AIDSLINE, HealthSTAR, and preMEDLINE.

PubMed Tutorial (National Libary of Medicine)

www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html

Tutorial for PubMed (Huston Academy of Medicine, Texas Medical Center Library

www.library.tmc.edu/newpubmed.html

PubMed Tutorial - UF HSCL

www.library.health.ufl.edu/PubMed/PubMed2/index.html

Developing PubMed Search Skills (W.K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library, Dalhousie University

www.library.dal.ca/kellogg/guides/pubmed/INTROFRM.HTM

NLM's Databases & Electronic Information Sources

www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/databases.html
Links to cancer sources, bioethics, AIDS resources and many others.

NLM Gateway

gateway.nlm.nih.gov
A single Web interface that searches multiple NLM retrieval systems, including PubMed and LOCATORplus

LOCATORplus

locatorplus.gov/
The National Library of Medicine catalog, which includes books and multi-media.

Government Health Resources

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

www.ahrq.gov/
Formerly the Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research, this site includes the Clinical Practice Guidelines, research findings, and information for consumers.

Centers for Disease Control

www.cdc.gov/
Includes the full text of publications such as Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, as well as travelers' health information and data and statistics. It includes links to state health departments.

CHID: Combined Health Information Database

chid.nih.gov/
"CHID is a database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availablity information for health information and health education resources."

ClinicalTrials.gov

clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui
Information for patients, family members and members of the public current about clinical research studies.

Department of Health and Human Services

www.os.dhhs.gov
This page includes considerable consumer health information, as well as the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance.

Food and Drug Administration

www.fda.gov/
Includes information on human and animal drugs, cosmetics, foods, toxicology, medical devices and radiological health and inspections and imports. It has information about current topics, including new drugs, new therapies (e.g. aromatherapy), and guidelines for drugs/cosmetics/foods. It includes the FDA Drug Approvals List and selected documents are in French, Spanish and Russian

National Institutes of Health

www.nih.gov
Contains links to the individual institutes and offices, health information such as MEDLINE, CancerNet and AIDS related information, and grants and contracts. Includes access to a full-text database of NIH Consumer Health Information.

National Library of Medicine

www.nlm.nih.gov
This site includes information about NLM and other NIH services, research and development activities such as the Visible Human, almost 60,000 images from the Images from the History of Medicine service, the LOCATORplus, the NLM online catalog and MEDLINE.

National Center for Biotechnology Information

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This site has information on genetics and includes a number of databases including GenBank, a gene sequence database, OMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, and a free MEDLINE, PubMed.

Office of Minority Health

www.omhrc.gov/
Includes information on conferences, publications, and links to health resources.

Consumer Health / Patient Education Resources

NOAH

www.noah-health.org/
Produced jointly by the New York Academy of Medicine and New York Public Library, it is one of the few resources with Spanish language material.

Consumer Health Resources

www.ohsu.edu/library/consumerhealth/conhealth.shtml
A selection of consumer health resources selected by OHSU Librarians.

HealthAtoZ: the Search Engine for Health and Medicine

www.Healthatoz.com/
A list of sites that are cataloged by medical professionals, their vision is to be the "starting point for all your health and medical searches on the Information Superhighway".

healthfinder

healthfinder.gov/
A "gateway consumer health information web site" produced by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. It includes information from the federal government, state and local agencies, not for profit organizations, and universities. Much of it is full text. It also includes links to organizations. Includes sections in Spanish and for children.

InteliHealth

www.intelihealth.com
Health information from Harvard Medical School.

MayoClinic.com

www.mayohealth.org/
Directed by a team of Mayo Clinic physicians, scientists, writers and educators, this site is updated daily.

MEDLINEplus

www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/cancers.html
Produced at the National Library of Medicine, it contains a carefully selected list of resources on a growing number of health topics. It includes links to MEDLINE, organizations, and clearinghouses.

MEL: Cancer Pages

mel.org/health/
A list of health resources from the Michigan Electronic Library (MEL).

WebMD: Cancer

my.webmd.com/
Includes links to a drugs and herbs database, Health Guide A-Z, and a personal health tracker.

Native American Health / Public Health

American Indian/Alaska Native Resources: Internet Sampler

www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/pnr/samplers/natamer.html
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region. Staff.
An overview of the varied internet resources about Native Americans, pertinent herbal and nutritional information, health resources for American Indians, and Native American mailing lists.

Center for American Indian Research in Education (CAIRE)

www.caire.org/
Research and resources for American Indian health care.

healthfinder: American Indians/Alaska Natives

healthfinder.gov/scripts/Topics.asp?context=3&keyword=220&branch=1
Links to health topics relevant to Native Americans and Alaska Natives.

Indian Health Services

www.ihs.gov/
A veriety of health information for American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Minority Health Network

www.pitt.edu/~ejb4/min/
Developed at the University of Pittsburgh as a source of information for individuals interested in the health of minority groups. The site is organized by minority group, by disease and by subject. It also links to publications, events and related sites.

MEDLINEplus: Native American Health

www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/nativeamericanhealth.html
Links to Native American health issues, including a link to a PubMed search.

Native American Ethnobotany Database

www.umd.umich.edu/cgi-bin/herb
A database of foods, drugs, dyes and fibers of Native North American peoples.

Native Health History Database

hsc.unm.edu/nhhd/
A centralized, nationally accessible, computerized information resource containing complete bibliographic information and abstracts on historical American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) medical/health research reports covering a time period from 1652 to 1970.

Office of Minority Health Resource Center

www.omhrc.gov/
Information resources on minority health include databases (funding, media, research, data, and listings of volunteer resource persons) as well as scientific reports, journals, and documents.

Partners in Information Access for Public Health Professional

www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/partners/tools.html
Produced by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, it includes links to CDC, grant information, and education and training.

Public Health: Internet Sampler

nnlm.gov/pnr/samplers/pubhlth.html,br> Compiled by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region

Tribal Connections in the Pacific Northwest

www.tribalconnections.org/
Connecting American Indian / Alaska Native Communities to Health Resources on the Internet. Produced at the Pacific Northwest Regional National Network of Libraries of Medicine.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Public Health

www.epibiostat.ucsf.edu/epidem/epidem.html
Links to a variety of statistics resources

Alternative / Complementary Medicine

Alternative Medicine Homepage

www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html
An extensive list of internet resources on alternative medicine maintained by Falk Library of the Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. It includes alternative systems of medical practice, associations and organizations, diseases and conditions, herbal medicine, fraud and quackery, government resources, datbases, schools and training, newsgroups, etc.

MEDLINEplus: Alternative Medicine

www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/alternativemedicine.html
Links to a variety of resources about alternative medicine.

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

nccam.nih.gov/
NCCAM conducts biomedical research on complementary and alternative medicine and provides information to health practitioners and the public.

Quackwatch

www.quackwatch.com/
An overview of "alternative methods", questionable therapies and detailed reports on unconventional treatments and sources of reliable advice.

Epidemiology

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

www.cdc.gov/

FASTATS

www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/
An alphabetical index to health statistics; very comprehensive including diseases and state statistics.

HSLS Epidemiology (University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System)

www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/internet/guide.html?topic=12

National Center for Health Statistics

www.cdc.gov/nchswww/

Statistical Resources on the Web: Health

www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/sthealth.html
Links to statistical sources on the web from the University of Michigan.

World Wide Web Virtual Libary: Epidemiology

www.epibiostat.ucsf.edu/epidem/epidem.html

Evaluating Medical Information on the Web

Assessing, controlling and assuring the quality of medical information on the Internet: Caveant lector et viewor--Let the reader and viewer beware.

JAMA. 277(15):1244-5, Apr 16, 1997.
"...when it comes to medical information, the Internet too often resembles a cocktail conversation rather than a tool for effective health care communication and decision making." William M. Silberg, George D. Lundberg, MD, Robert A. Musacchio, PhD.

The Megasite Project: A Megasite Comparing Health Information Megasites and Search Engines

www.lib.umich.edu/megasite/
Comparison of 38 Internet sites considered authoritative sources of health information.

Fifteen Ways to Spot an Internet Bandit

www.quackwatch.com/04ConsumerEducation/BookContents/spotban.html
Daniel J. Barrett. From Bandits on the Information Superhighway, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1996.

Health on the Net: HONcode: Principles

www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html
A code of conduct for medical and health web sites. 1997.

How to Spot a "Quacky" Web Site

www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/quackweb.html
The best way to avoid being quacked is to reject quackery's promoters. A list of items that signify that a web site is not a trustworthy information source. Hyperlinks will take you to articles on Quackwatch that explain why. Stephen Barrett, M.D.

The Internet as a Source for Current Patient Information

www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/101/6/e2
"...need to warn...about the need for a very critical review of all medical information obtained from the Web, even when it seems to be from a 'reliable' source." H. Juhling Mcclung, MD; Robert D. Murray, MD; and Leo A. Heitlinger, MD. Pediatrics 101(6); June 1998.

Medicine and Health on the Internet: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

JAMA 280(15):1303-4; October 21, 1998.
"The quantity of such information is enormous, and its quality is highly variable." Donald A. B. Lindberg, MD; Betsy L. Humphreys, MLS,

Measuring Quality and Impact of the World Wide Web

www.bmj.com/archive/7098ip2.ht
"...unless we evaluate the quality of clinical sites and their effects on users, we risk drowning in a sea of poor quality information." Jeremy C. Wyatt. BMJ, No. 7098, Volume 314. June 28, 1997.

NN/LM GMR Tips on Evaluating Web Resources

www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/gmr/publish/eval.html

Quality Filtering of Web Sites

www.ccmlnet.org/qualfilt.htm
A continuing education course created by Lynne M. Fox, A.M.L.S, M.A. and the Colorado Council of Medical Librarians.

The Quality of Medical Information on the Internet: A New Public Health Concern

"...there is growing concern that a substantial proportion of clinical information on the Internet might be inaccurate, erroneous, misleading, or fraudulent, and thereby pose a threat to public health." Stephen D. McLeod, MD, Archives of Ophthalmology 116(12):1663-5, December 1998.

Towards Quality Management of Medical Information on the Internet: Evaluation, Labelling, and Filtering of Information

www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/317/7171/1496
"...there should at least be a core standard for labelling health related information." Gunther Eysenbach, Thomas L Diepgen, BMJ 1998;317:1496-1502, November28, 1998.

Virtual "Treatments" Can Be Real-World Deceptions

www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/mrclalrt.htm
Some tips from the Federal Trade Commission, November 1997. See Vitamin O

Grants and Resource Funding Resources

Bibliography of Published Funding Sources

healthlinks.washington.edu/hsc/rfs/bibliography.html
A list of selected print publications on proposal development, grant writing, sources within the federal government agencies in addition to NIH, and general directories and newsletters on funding for research, training and other programs. Several of these publications are also available on the World Wide Web.

The Foundation Center

fdncenter.org/
An independent nonprofit clearinghouse that collects, organizes, analyzes and disseminates information on foundations, corporate philanthropy, grant makers, and related informational materials on specific programs, application procedures, FAQs, etc.

Funding Resources: Rural Information Center Health Services

www.nal.usda.gov/ric/richs/funding.htm

Grant Writing Tip Sheets

grants.nih.gov/grants/grant_tips.htm
Tips from the National Institutes of Health.

GrantsNet

www.hhs.gov/grantsnet/
From the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.

NIH: Grants & Funding Opportunities

grants.nih.gov/grants/index.cfm
What is available, how to write grants, along with more information on grant writing.

Research Funding Service. University of Washington. HealthLinks

healthlinks.washington.edu/hsc/rfs/index.html
A "toolkit"developed at the University of Washington to assist grant seekers and researchers locate sources of funding. The site includes: funding search tools; alerting services; grantsmanship; and "late breaking opportunities."

Style and Writing Guides

Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences

/www.mco.edu:80/lib/instr/libinsta.html
A list of links to Web sites with instructions to authors for over 3,000 health sciences journals. The links are to the "primary sources"-- publishers or organizations having editorial responsibilities. Created by the Mulford Library of the Medical College of Ohio, the list is continuously monitored and updated.

Style & Writing Guides Reference

www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/ref5800.html
The Internet Public Library's annotated list of online style and writing guides for proper grammatical usage, bibliographic formats, and writing techniques.

Writing Guides

www.med.yale.edu/library/sir/ref.php3?reference_cat=Writing+Guides
A selected list of internet resources compiled by Yale University Medical Library. It is divided into three sections: General Writing Guides grammar, punctuation, usage, capitalization and style; Specialty Writing Guides-instructions to authors in the health sciences, resources for technical and scientific writers and World Wide Web standards and guidelines; Style Manuals-guidelines and citation styles for manuscripts (APA, MLA, ACP Journal Club), and formats for citing electronic and internet sources.