Acute Care Links
- ACP Online - The American College of Physicians
- The on-line ACP Journal Club is published bimonthly by the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine
- Agency for Health Care Research & Policy
- Formerly the AHCPR - Agency for Health Care Policy & Research - this site has links to guidelines and health information for health professionals and consumers.
- American College of Cardiology
- This site has very comprehensive, evidence based guidelines pertaining to cardiology.
- Australia: National Institute of Clinical Studies (NICS)
- A Commonwealth Government company formed to implement evidence-based practice in the Australian Healthcare Sector.
- Australian Resource Centre for Hospital Innovations (ARCHI)
- Includes ARCHI e-mail Discussion Groups, database and extensive links pages
- British Thoracic Society
- British site provides guidelines, reports and audit tools on topics relevant to thoracic medicine.
- CADTH
- The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) is a national body that provides Canada's federal, provincial and territorial health care decision makers with credible, impartial advice and evidence-based information about the effectiveness and efficiency of drugs and other health technologies.
- Canadian Diabetes Association
- This Canadian website provides information about diabetes for consumers and access for health professionals to diabetes related guidance.
- CDC - Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
- A comprehensive site featuring information covering a range of health topics.
- Centre for Clinical Effectiveness
- Based at Monash University, The Centre for Clinical Effectiveness (CCE) aims to enhance patient outcomes through the clinical application of the best available evidence
- The Center for Clinical Trials and Evidence-based Healthcare at Brown Medical School.
- An online resource called Trials Central Register of Clinical Trials Registers. The site currently features a searchable database of registers of ongoing clinical trials in all areas of healthcare.
- CHAIN
- CHAINs (Contact, Help, Advice & Information Networks) are an on-line, searchable database of contact details for people with a health or social care background who are interested in exchanging ideas and knowledge with like-minded people in a simple and informal way. CHAINs originated in the UK in the mid 1990s, and now have Canadian, Australian and International sister networks.
- CMA Clinical Practice Guidelines (Canada)
- This Canadian site provides access to guidelines produced or endorsed in Canada by a national, provincial/territorial or regional medical or health organisation, professional society, government agency or expert panel.
- CRANA - Council of Remote Area Nurses of Australia Inc
- A site concerned with promoting health care to remote areas of Australia and it's external Territories.
- Diabetes UK
- This UK site contains information about diabetes for consumers and provides access for health professionals to clinical guidelines and position statements.
- eMJA Clinical Guidelines (Australia)
- This site provides access to clinical guidelines published by the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA).
- European Resuscitation Council
- This site provides evidence-based guidelines for resuscitation.
- Fall Prevention (New Zealand)
- The New Zealand national falls prevention strategy
- Guidelines Advisory Committee
- Conducts evidence review and publishes guidelines on health topics.
- Guidelines International Network
- Healthfinder
- An American site with consumer services information
- High Wire Press
- The Stanford University Library has a searchable index of over 100 full text interdisciplinary journals
- Medical Journal of Australia
- Australian Medical Association site.
- National Health and Medical Research Council
- Australian site provides information for consumers and guidance for health professionals.
- National Institute of Health Consensus Development Program
- "NIH Consensus Development Conferences are convened to evaluate available scientific information and resolve safety and efficacy issues related to biomedical technology. The resultant NIH Consensus Statements are intended to advance understanding of the technology or issue in question and to be useful to health professionals and the public".
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
- A UK site providing guidance for health professionals.
- National Library of Medicine
- The US National Library of Medicine site includes free online search capability for MEDLINE Plus, MEDLINE/PubMed (References and abstracts from 4300 biomedical journals), ClinicalTrials.gov (Provides information for patients about clinical research studies), DIRLINE (Directory of health organizations), LOCATORplus (Catalog of books, journals, and audiovisuals in the NLM collections), NLM Gateway (Web interface that searches multiple NLM retrieval systems)
- NETTING THE EVIDENCE
- Sigma Theta Tau
- This is a nursing honors society with education resources and professional development resources.
- British based link site for Evidence Based Healthcare Information Sites
- The New Zealand Guidelines Group
- Provides guidelines for clinical practice.
- New Zealand Health Technology Assessment
- Clearing House for Health Outcomes and Health Technology Assessment recommended by the New Zealand Centre for Evidence Based Nursing
- NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme
- Provides guidance on the cost, effectiveness and impact of health treatments and tests.
- NHS Scotland Nursing & Midwifery Practice Development Unit
- This site provides access to a large range of nursing-related topics and guidelines.
- Nurse Scribe
- This site contains a vast range of links to websites which aid nurses with education, research and practice.
- Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (NMAP)
- Part of the National Electronic Library for Health, with specific portals for a number of professions.
- Royal Adelaide Hospital
- The home base for the Joanna Briggs Institute
- Royal College of Nursing (Australia)
- Royal College of Nursing, Australia is a leading professional organisation representing nurses from all practice areas throughout Australia.
- Royal College of Nursing UK
- This UK site provides access to a vast range of nursing-related topics from direct care to management.
- Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
- This site provides comprehensive guidelines on the management of a broad range of medical topics.
- The University of Adelaide, Discipline of Clinical Nursing
- JBI recognises the support of the University of Adelaide Dept of Clinical Nursing
- The University of Adelaide Library - Nursing Resources Site
- THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK
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Centre for Evidence Based Nursing: Another site from York,
specific to Evidence Based Practice in Nursing including:
- Centre for Evidence Based Nursing
- NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
- Update on Research for Teaching and Practice
- US National Institute of Health Clinical Alerts
- Clinical alerts are provided to expedite the release of findings from the NIH-funded clinical trials where such release could significantly affect morbidity and mortality.
- World Health Organisation
- Comprehensive health topics reports listing including: Child & adolescent health & development, Environment, Health & human rights, Health information systems, Health legislation & health policy, Health technology, Infectious diseases, Medicines & vaccines, Mental & neurological disorders & disabilities, Non-infectious diseases, Nutrition, Other topics, Reproductive health