All Links in Institutions

AGENCY for HEALTH CARE RESEARCH & QUALITY

Formerly the AHCPR - Agency for Health Care Policy & Research - excellent guidelines database

Australian Clinical Trials Registry ( ACTR )

Australians can now find out which clinical trials are taking place across the country in all areas of health: new drugs, treatments, therapies, surgical procedures and medical devices. With the establishment of Australian Clinical Trials Registry (ACTR), there is now a comprehensive, national, on-line register of all clinical trials being conducted in Australia.

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 Centres for Health Evidence

McMasters University Users Guide to Medical Literature

Canadian Centres for Health Evidence

McMasters University Users Guide to Medical Literature

Canadian Paediatric Society

Canadian Site offering Clinical Practice Guidelines on a variety of paediatric issues

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. It undertakes teaching and research activities, and answers requests for evidence from the staff of Southern Health, Melbourne, Australia.

Cochrane Collaboration

The Cochrane Collaboration Home Page Abstracts of Cochrane Reviews New or Updated Reviews Listing

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 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)

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.

Sigma Theta Tau International

Honor Society of Nursing

The National Ageing Research Institute

The National Ageing Research Institute Incorporated was opened in June 1994. Previously it had been known as the National Research Institute of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine. The Institute is located in the grounds of the Melbourne Extended Care and Rehabilitation Service (formerly North West Hospital) in Parkville, Melbourne, Australia.

The University of Adelaide Library - Nursing Resources Site

The University of Adelaide, Discipline of Clinical Nursing

JBI recognises the support of the University of Adelaide Dept of Clinical Nursing

University of Iowa

The Research Dissemination Core (RDC) - Marita Titler

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

York CRD - Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

Dare Database: http://agatha.york.ac.uk/darehp.htm The National Health Service Centre for Reviews & Dissemination - University of York. Includes on-line access to the DARE database - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED