Health Information Resources on the Internet

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Hospitals | Journals & Periodicals | Medical Societies & Associations

Hospitals

• American Hospital Association
  http://www.hospitalconnect.com/
  "The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Close to 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 37,000 individual members come together to form the AHA."
• American Hospital Directory
  http://www.ahd.com/
  provides on-line, comparative data for most hospitals including Medicare claims data, cost reports, and other public use files obtained from the federal Health Care Financing Administration. Look up any hospital in the United States that treats Medicare patients. The on-line directory includes many measurements of a hospital and its performance.

Journals & Periodicals

• Brandon & Hill List of Journals
  http://nnlm.gov/libinfo/ejournals/branhill.html
  "Which key journals are available in full text at no charge for the health science library or clinician? This web resource attempts to answer that question by tracking the Journal List from the "Selected List of Books and Journals for the Small Medical Library" by Alfred N. Brandon and Dorothy R. Hill published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association Vol. 85, No. 2, April 1997. The Brandon and Hill List of Journals includes the journal title and publisher. If the publisher maintains a website for the journal, a link is provided to that website. If the journal provides access to full text articles that information is available along with any restrictions. The third column indicates when the publisher started providing web access to the journal's table of contents, abstracts, and full-text articles. This website will be completely reviewed every six months by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. "
• Free Medical Journals
  http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
  An extensive list of free medical journals available via the Web.
• NettingTheEvidence: Evidence Based Practice on the Internet
  http://www.nettingtheevidence.org.uk/
  Guide to evidence-based medicine on the Web. Includes several full-text free online journals.
• Instructions for Authors
  http://www.mco.edu/lib/instr/libinsta.html in the Health Sciences
  These pages provide links to Web sites which provide instructions to authors for over 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences. All links are to "primary sources" - that is, to publishers and organizations with editorial responsibilities for the titles.
• Ejournal SiteGuide : A MetaSource for electronic journals
  http://www.library.ubc.ca/ejour/
  "...A selected and annotated set of links to sites for ejournals, which in turn provide links to individual titles and/or to other collections of links."
• Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World-Wide Web
  http://info.lib.uh.edu/wj/webjour.html
  This directory provides links to established Web-based scholarly journals that offer access to English language article files without requiring user registration or fees.
• PubMed Central
  http://pubmedcentral.nih.gov
  Free online access to the full text of life science research articles. "FREE full text can now be viewed in PubMed Central, both as HTML through your web browser and as downloadable PDFs. Features include: links from article reference citations to PubMed abstracts, figures sized for on-screen viewing, and support for supplementary information such as data tables, streaming video, and high-resolution images."

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Medical Societies & Associations

• Orange County Medical Association
  http://www.ocma.org/
• Los Angeles County Medical Association
  http://www.lacmanet.org/
• San Diego County Medical Society
  http://www.sdcms.org/
• San Bernardino County Medical Society
  http://www.sbcms.org/
• Riverside County Medical Association
  http://www.rcmanet.org/

• CMANET: California Medical Association
  http://www.cmanet.org

• American Medical Association
  http://www.ama-assn.org/
• American Board of Medical Specialties
  http://www.abms.org/
• Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors
  http://www.docboard.org/
  U.S. State Medical & Osteropathic licensing boards

• World Health Organization
  http://www.who.int/en/

• Health Organizations
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/organizations.html
  A list of organizations providing health information

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