Child Health

• "Quality of Health Care for Children and Adolescents: A Chartbook" -- a national report on the quality of pediatric care
  • Press Release

Demographics

• Definitions of "Rural" & Assessing Healthcare Needs (Office of Rural Health)
  • List of Urban and Rural Towns in Oregon (based on Oregon's Office of Rural Health definition of "rural"

Diagnosis/Therapy

• Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
  • Put Prevention Into Practice (PPIP)
  • QualityTools(tm)
  • US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
• Family Practice Inquiries Network (FPIN)
• Harrison's textbook of Medicine
• MD Consult
• Medline Search
• OHSU Links
  • Consult Services
  • Library Resources
• SORT (AAFP's Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy)
• Virtual Hospital - Univ. of Iowa Healthcare System site

Evidence-based Medince

• Bandolier -- an independent journal about evidence-based healthcare
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM)
• Center for Health Evidence -- User's Guide to Evidence-Based Practice
• Clinical Evidence -- from the British Journal of Medicine Publishing Group
• Cochrane Collaboration
  • Search Reviews of Abstracts
• EB On-call -- Evidence-based On-Call Database
• JAMA's Users' Guides to Medical Literature
• J. of Family Practice's online library of POEMs
• TripDatabase -- An Evidence-based Medicine Search Tool
• The Unit for Evidence-based Practice and Policy -- a virtual subunit of the Dept. of Primary Care and Population Sciences (PCPS) at Univ. College London

Drug Information

• FDA's MedWatch
• Martindale's The Virtual Pharmacy Center
• OHSU Health Professional Internet Resources
• RXmed
• RxList
• Pharmacy Subject Guide -- Univ. of Sydney Library (Australia)

Government Sites

• AHRQ
• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
• FedStats Health Statistics
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• National Library of Medicine (NLM
• Oregon Health Division
• Rural Assistance Center (RAC)
• WHO Statistical Information System

Information Technology in Practice

• AAFP's "FP Net" (American Academy of Family Physicians) - computer information source for family physicians
• American Medical Informations Association (AMIA)
  • Journal -- JAMIA
• American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA)
• Distance Education Clearinghouse -- Health and Telemedicine
• Family Physicians' Electronic Network - facilitate communication among family physicians and other primary health care providers in order to help support the quality of care we provide to the community, especially the rural community
• HIMSS -- Healthcare Information and Maganagment Systems Society
  Electronic Health Record
• IOM's 8 Core Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record -- "Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record, July 2003 (The National Academies Press)
• The National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) - "the set of technologies, standards, applications, systems, values, and laws that support all facets of individual health, health care, and public health"
• Midwest Alliance for Nursing Informatics
• OHSU Dept. of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology
• PDA Cortex - The Journal of Mobile Informatics
• Primary Health Care Specialist Group

Journals

• Annals of Family Medicine
• Archives of Family Medicine
• American Family Physician
• Bandolier -- an independent journal about evidence-based healthcare
• British Journal of General Practice
• Family Medicine
• Family Practice Management
• Family Practice News
• Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
• Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)
• New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
• Northwest Public Health (NWPH)

Manuals & Clinical Guidelines

• American Academy of Pediatrics Practice Guidelines
• Bandolier -- an independent journal about evidence-based healthcare
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM)
• Center for Health Evidence -- User's Guide to Evidence-Based Practice
• Clinician's Handbook of Preventive Services, 2nd Edition
• Cochrane Collaboration
• Family Practice Inquiries Network (FPIN)
• InfoPOEMs (Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters)
• National Guideline Clearinghouse - sponsored by AHRQ
• QualityTools(tm) (an AHRQ website)
• Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines
• SORT (AAFP's Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy)
• TripDatabase -- An Evidence-based Medicine Search Tool
• The Vaccine Education Center

The "Medical Home"

• "Personal Medical Home" - A new medical model for family medicine
  • Future of Family Medicine Project, Task Force 5 Report
• Oregon Medical Home Project

Medical Meta Sites

• Dr. McNabb's Medical Bookmarks
• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources - Univ. of Iowa Health Sciences Library
• OHSU Health Professional Internet Resources
• "Go To Health" -- Steve Teich's useful websites for health professionals
• The Doctor's Reference Site
• Yale Medical Library

Organizations

• Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP)  added 03/26/04
  • Report on Family Health Care in Rural Areas
    Developed by Region X states (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska)
• American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• Institue for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)  added 12/23/03
  • 2003 National Forum
• Oregon Academy of Family Physicians (OAFP)
• Oregon Health Research & Evaluation Collaborative (OHREC)
• Oregon Medical Association (OMA)
• Society of Teachers in Family Medicine (STFM)

Patient Info

• Bluestem - Kansas Univ. Medical Center site
• Fact for Families (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
• Family Doctor.org - an AAFP site
• FamilyPractice.com
  • Self-care Flowcharts
• GreenField Health Systems
• HealthAnswers
• HealthFinder - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services health information site
• MEDLINEplus Health Info
• NeedyMeds - information about drug company assistance programs
• NOAH - New York Online Access to Health
• OHSU Health.com
• The Vaccine Education Center
• Virtual Hospital - Univ. of Iowa Healthcare System site

PDA Info

• AAFP's FP Net -- PDAs and Wireless
• ACP's PDA Portal
• AMA's PDA Resources
• CollectiveMed PDA Center
• Dr. McNabb's Medical Bookmarks -- Dr. Jim McNabb
• Ectopic Brain -- Riverside Family Practice, Palm OS Handhelds in Clinical Practice
• Educause:  Handheld Devices in Higher Education
• Handheldmed
• Medical Applications for Palm-OS -- compiled by Georgetown University's Dahlgren Library
• Medical Pocket PC
• Medical School PDA Sites -- Univ. of N. Carolina School of Medicine PDA Initiative
• PDA cortex -- The Journal of Mobile Informatics
• PDA's for Healthcare Providers -- Arizona Health Sciences Library
• PDA Library to Go -- Wayne State Univ. Health Sciences PDA Site
• PDA Resources for the Health Sciences -- USC's Norris Medical Library
• pdaMD
  • Healthy PalmPilot -- part of the pdaMD.com network
• Pediatrics on Hand
• Pocket Informatics Links
• Tucows PDA

Practice-based Research Network Links

AHRQ Websites

• AHRQ Center for Primary Care Research
• AHRQ PBRN Sites
  • PBRN Fact Sheet
  • 2000 Planning Grant Awardees List
  • 2002 Primary Care PBRN Awardees List

AAFP National Network for Family Practice and Primary Care Research

• List of PBRNs

U.S. PBRN's with websites

• AAFP National Research Network
• Clinical Directors Network, Inc
• Colorado Research Network (CaReNet)
• Capitol Area Primary Care Research Network (CAPRICORN)
• Kansas Practice Research Network (KSPRN)
• Kentucky Ambulatory Network (KAN)
• Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians Research Network (MAFPRN)
• Oklahoma Physicians Resource/Research Network (OKPRN)
• Practice Partner Research Network (PPRNet)
• Virginia Ambulatory Care Outcomes Research Network (ACORN)
• Wisconsin Research Network (WReN)

International Research Networks with websites

• Alberta Family Practice Research Network (AFPRN)
• Wessex Primary Care Research Network (WReN)
• West London Research Network (WelReN)
• Yorkshire Primary Care Research Network (YReN)

Research

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  • Research Findings Index Page
  • QualityTools(tm) (an AHRQ website)
• Bandolier -- an independent journal about evidence-based healthcare
• Inventory and Evaluation of Clinical Research Networks (IECRN) -- provides profiles of clinical researchers
• OHSU Research
  • Funding Sources & Deadlines
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • NIH Office of Extramural Research Grants Web Site
  • NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
    • Biographical Sketch Document/Form
• North American Primary Care Research Network (NAPCRG)
• Oregon Health Research & Evaluation Collaborative (OHREC)
• State Health Facts Online -- a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation site
• TripDatabase -- An Evidence-based Medicine Search Tool

Subscription Services

• Family Practice Inquiries Network (FPIN)
• InfoPoems
• Medical Letter
• UpToDate