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Anthrax and Bioterrorism
Bioterrorism
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This site has been designed to provide resource information and continuing education about rare infections and potential bioterrorist agents. |
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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) covers recent cases of Anthrax and deals with its recognition and response. |
Clinical Care
Society for
Medical Decision Making
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The Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) promotes rational and systematic approaches to decision making that will improve the health and clinical care of individuals and assist health policy formation. The cornerstones of SMDM's mission are multidisciplinary scholarship, the development of applications that benefit patients and society, the evaluation of such applications and dessemination of its research. |
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MD Consult provides clinical information for physicians. It integrates the most renowned collection of medical content online to provide fast answers in full-text from respected sources such as leading medical texts, premier journals, peer-reviewed guidelines, patient handouts and more. |
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UpToDate is a practical clinical information service designed to provide instant, expert answers to clinical questions. It is written by a recongnized faculty of experts who each address a specific clinical issue. They synthesize the latest evidence adn best practices and provide detailed recommendations. |
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The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care medicine. SCCM is the only organization that represents all professional components of the critical care team. |
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The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics is an independent, peer-reviewed, non-profit publication that offers unbiased critical evaluations of drugs - with special emphasis on new drugs - to physicians oand other members of the health professions. (Reader must subscribe.) |
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The Centres for Health Evidence (CHE) is a non-profit organization that provides evidence-based practice resources to health professionals, patients and policy makers. |
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Last Acts is an unprecedented national effort, by a coalition of professional organizations, to raise awareness of the need to improve care of the dying and to share issues and ideas at the national, state and local levels. The organization focuses on managing pain and making life better for individuals and families facing death. The Honorary Chair of Last Acts is former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. |
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This Web site is published by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). AAFP is a national, non-profit medical association that promotes and maintains high-quality standards for family doctors who are providing continuing comprehensive health care to the public. A family physician is a doctor who is educated and trained in family practice. Family physicians possess unique attitudes, skills, and knowledge to provide medical care for any patient, regardless of sex, ae or type of problem. |
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The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is the national association of family doctors. Founded in 1947, AAFP provides responsible advocacy for and education of patients and the public in all health-related matters; preserves the promotes quality cost-effective health care; promotes the science and art of family medicine to ensure an optimal supply of well-trained physicians; promotes and maintains high standards among physicians who practice family medicine; preserves the right of family physicians to engage in medical and surgical procedures for which they are qualified by training and experience; to provide advocacy, representation and leadership for the specialty of family practice. |
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Best Evidence is an online and CD resource. It combines article abstracts and commentary printed in the ACP Journal Club and Diagnostic Strategies. The ACP Journal Club reviews the internal medicine literature in a standardized way. Authors summarize clinically important studies into a structured abstract format and experts in the field write an accompanying commentary. It's clearly presented, often with charts and tables. Diagnostic Strategies provides appraisal and interpretation of information on diagnostic testing. |
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Clinical Evidence is a continuously updated source of evidence available online, on CD, in print, and in a handheld version. Only evidence on the effects of clinical interventions (prevention and treatment) is included, with thorough searches and literature appraisal. Recommendations for aplying the evidence are provided as well. |
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The Cochrane Library, available as a CD and online, is a collection of meta-analyses of randomized trials of therapeutic interventions. |
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PIER is an evidence-based resource developed by ACP-ASIM. It contains modules on 125 clinical topics, covering diseases as well as legal medicine, ethics, complementary/ alternative medicine, screening and prevention, and a drug database. Recommendations are rated by the type of evidence on which they are based, and content is peer reviewed. |
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Updated daily, MEDLINE Plus offers a goldmine of good health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. It has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 500 diseases and conditions. Also available are lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, links to clinical trials and more. |
Hospital Quality and Patient Safety
Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
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The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits nearly 18,000 health care organizations and programs in the U.S. Independent and not-for-profit, JCAHO is the nation's premiere standards-setting and accrediting organization in health care. Since 1951 JCAHO has developed state-of-the-art, professionally-based standards and evaluated the compliance of health care organizations against these benchmarks. |
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The National Quality Forum is a not-for-profit membership organization created to develop and implement a national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting. A shared sense of urgency about the impact of health care quality on patient outcomes, workforce productivity, and health care costs prompted leaders in the public and private sectors to create the National Quality Forum as a mechanism to bring about national change. |
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The mission of the American College of Medical Quality (ACMQ) is to provide leadership in creating, sustaining and applying a scientifically-based infrastructure for the practice of clinical quality improvement. |
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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is a not-for-profit organization created to help lead the improvement of health care systems, and to continually increase their quality and value. The measures of improvement include improved health status, better clinical outcomes, lower cost, broadened access, greater ease of use, and higher satisfaction for individuals and their communities. |
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The mission of the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) is to improve patient safety in the delivery of health care by it efforts to: identify and create a core body of knowledge; identify pathways to apply that knowledge; develop and enhance the culture of receptivity to patient safety; raise public awareness and foster communications about patient safety; and improve the status of the Foundation and its ability to meet its goals. |
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The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is sponsored by the Agency for Heathcare Reserch and Quality in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans. |
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The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) is committed to improving the health and satisfaction of all its beneficiaries through an integrated quality improvement program. The Quality of Care site contains information on many of the quality improvement initaitives currently in progress. |
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) supports research designed to: improve the outcomes and quality of health care; reduce its costs; address patient safety and medical errors; and broaden access to effective services. The research sponsored, conducted, and disseminated by AHRQ provides information that helps people make better decisions about health care. |
Policy
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