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Internet for Health Information
- Portals and subject gateways
- Medical Search engines
- Health news
- Health statistics
- Official publications
- Electronic journals
- Electronic books
- Evaluation guides
Health databases
AMED (Allied & Complimentary Medicine)
Indexes articles from approx. 400 mainly European journals covering all aspects of alternative medicine including Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, Psychotherapy, Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Rehabilitation and many others.
Bandolier
A premier source of evidence based healthcare information. Provides monthly updates about evidence of effectiveness (or lack of it) based on recent published studies and presents findings as simple bullet points of those things that worked and those that did not. Web version is freely available.
BestBets
Developed in the Emergency Department of MRI, this freely accessible website that provides access to the best current evidence on a wide range of real-life clinical questions and clinical topics allowing physicians to make the best of what there is. Although BETs initially had an emergency medicine focus, there are a significant number of BETs covering cardiothoracics, nursing, primary care and paediatrics.
British Education Index
A database of UK literature that supports educational research, policy and practice. Includes medical education. Access is by subscription but partial free access is available on the web.
British Nursing Index
Indexes articles from over 250 of the most popular nursing and midwifery journals. Coverage of nursing, midwifery and related titles in the UK is comprehensive. A selection of the important international nursing titles are also indexed.
BNF (British National Formulary)
Authoritative and practical information on the selection and clinical use of medicines in a clear, concise and accessible manner. Personal registration or NHS Athens required.
BNF for Children
Paediatric resource for clinical use of medicines in children. Personal registration or NHS Athens required.
CancerLit
A freely available web resource produced by the National Cancer Institute (US) containing more than a million citations and abstracts related to cancer from over 4000 different sources.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
Indexes more than 1,200 international publications to provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of nursing and allied health information.
Clinical Knowledge Summaries
A practical up-to-date evidence-based source of clinical knowledge for the NHS about the common conditions managed in primary and first contact care. Includes concise summaries on how to manage almost 500 clinical situations (scenarios) commonly encountered in primary and first contact care, are underpinned by detailed up-to-date clinical knowledge on acute and chronic conditions, and disease prevention.
ClinicalTrials.gov
A freely available database produced by the US National Institute of Health comprising of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. Searchable by disease, condition, location, treatment or sponsor.
Cochrane Library
Dedicated to producing and making freely accessible, up-to-date, reliable high quality evidence about the effects of healthcare, on which informed clinical decisions can be based. It is the best single source of clinical evidence about the effects of healthcare interventions for treatment, health promotion and organisation of care.
Current Controlled Trails
Freely available web resource that aims to promote the exchange of information about clinical trials. Includes a facility to search for clinical trials across multiple databases.
DH-DATA
A Department of Health (DH) database with emphasis on the management, administration and planning of the NHS. Indexes articles from over 300 relevant journals and includes references to all DI publications. Now can be searched together with the Kings Fund database via the Health Management Information Consortium (HMIC) database.
DUETS (Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments)
A freely available UK database publishing uncertainties that cannot currently be answered by referring to reliable up-to-date systematic reviews of existing research evidence. Developed primarily to help those prioritising research in the UK to take account of the information needs of patients, carers and clinicians.
DynaMed
A clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care'. Systematically reviews the literature on a daily basis from over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases to provide clinically-organized summaries for nearly 2,000 topics.
EMBASE
International journal coverage of approximately 5,000 journals published in 70 countries (mainly European)relating mainly to the pharmacological effects of drugs and Chemicals. Other aspects of human medicine and related disciplines are also covered.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Centre)
The world’s largest educational database providing free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials including medical education.
GreenFILE
A database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment and the relationship with disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, etc.
HMIC (Health Management Information Consortium database)
The Health Management Information Consortium database is a compilation of the databases DH-DATA and the King’s Fund.
Images from the History of Medicine
A free database of nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.
King's Fund
Kings Fund is a UK health charity. The database, contains 75, 000 references to official UK health policy documents, and informally published ('grey') literature relating to policy and management of health and social care services in the UK. Now can be searched together with the DH DATA database via the Health Management Information Consortium (HMIC) database.
Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference
Martindales is A comprehensive and well established database of evaluated information on all aspects of drugs, medicines produced by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
Medline
A vast source of international biomedical information produced by the National Library of Medicine (USA). Covering the whole
field of medicine including dentistry, veterinary medicine and
medical psychology. See also PubMed
National Library for Health
The NLH is the national web-based information service for the NHS. It comprises of a whole range of resources which together provide up-to-date high quality evidence based information. Much of the information is freely available. NHS Athens required to access the full range of resources.
National Research Register (NRR) Archive
A freely available database of completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the NHS The NRR does not, however, include results or findings of research projects.
PEDro - Physiotherapy Evidence Database
Freely available physiotherapy evidence database developed to give physiotherapists and others rapid access details of RCTs in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality.
PsycINFO
Produced by the American Psychological Association. Indexes over 2000 international journals to provide comprehensive coverage of psychology and allied fields.
PubMed
PubMed is a freely available premier biomedical database produced by the National Library of Medicine (USA). It comprises of Medline (1966- ) and Old Medline (1950-1965). It indexes over 4800 journals covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and preclinical sciences.
Social Care Online
Freely available extensive social care information database produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence. Indexes research briefings, reports, government documents, websites and journal articles.
Teacher Reference Centre (TRC)
Provides coverage on key education topics such as assessment, continuing education, medical education etc. Indexes over 260 of the most popular teaching and administrative trade journals and books.
Topics in Medical Education (TIMELIT)
Comprises of over 50,000 medical and health education references extracted form a comprehensive range of databases.
TRIP Database (Turning Research Into Practice)
A freely available leading Evidence-Based Medicine resource. Searches over 75 high quality medical sites to find and report on the best available evidence which can be used by professionals answer real clinical questions.
Portals and subject gateways
Medical portals act as one-stop shops for specific groups of people such as dentists, pharmacologists etc. Subject gateways are catalogues of internet resources, some of which evaluate the quality of resources before adding them to their list. They are a good place to start researching a subject.
BUBL Link
Includes several medical health and dental sections.
eMedicine
An open access comprehensive medical textbook for all clinical fields with sections devoted to medical articles and images, as well as patient information.
Google Web Directory
A collection of health related websites evaluated by Open Directory volunteer editors, and the sites are ranked by Google based on their importance.
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
Designed the best lists or directories of information in health and medicine.
Intute: Health and Life Sciences
A high quality UK gateway to health, biomedicine, allied health and health management websites. Resources in INTUTE have undergone a strict process of selection, evaluation and description.
Karolinska Institute
A Swedish site of many useful resources on the internet.
Martindale's Health Science Guide
Jim Martindale's extensive guide to multimedia resources, including teaching files, medical cases, courses/textbooks, graphic displays and movies.
Medic8
A medical portal for healthcare professionals and consumers around the world, providing access to peer-reviewed resources.
MedBioWorld
Provides access to medical and bioscience journals, associations, databases and other medical resources, 'With over 35,000 links, is the largest medical and bioscience resource directory on the Internet.'
Medicines Management
Useful information resource designed to help pharmacists and pharmacy staff find useful information about medicines using the internet and provides suggestions on how to approach various types of questions.
Medical Matrix
A major ranked, peer-reviewed web based clinical medical resource.
MEDLINEplus
Quality medical information for health professionals and consumers, from the US National Library of Medicine. Includes an extensive Health Topics section, as well as dictionaries and a medical encyclopaedia.
Medscape
A free website designed to provide clinicians and other healthcare professionals with the most timely comprehensive and relevant clinical information to improve patient care.
Netdoctor
Explains in a clear and straightforward manner the common medical examinations and procedures performed by doctors and specialists in the UK. Includes encyclopaedias on diseases and medicines.
The Virtual Library
The oldest catalogue on the web maintained by run by a loose confederation of volunteers.
Yahoo!
A popular catalogue arranged in broad subject sections, including health.
Medical search engines
Generic web search engines like Google can of course be used to retrieve useful healthcare information, but there are also search engines that are dedicated to do just that. There is a significant trend towards single search engines, also known as cross search or meta search engines.
HONselect andMedHunt
A medical and health search engine that combines five information types - MeSH terms, authoritative scientific articles, healthcare news, Web sites and multimedia into one service to focus and accelerate your search.
NLH search
A one-stop single search interface for a large number of resources, including the NLH Specialist Libraries, guidelines databases, sources of evidence, and the national Core Content (Medline and other Dialog databases, as well as full-text books and journals).
OmniMedicalSearch
A metasearch engine, OmniMedicalSearch produces search results from several search engines.
SUMSearch
This search engine from the University of Texas Health Science Centre lets you specify an evidence-based focus (e.g. treatment, diagnosis, etiology, prognosis). It then searches for practice guidelines and systematic reviews across a selection of resources including the US National Guideline Clearinghouse, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, DARE and PubMed.
PrimeAnswers
'Provides access to high quality information for primary care providers. Best-evidence documents from multiple sources have been indexed by UW [University of Washington] information experts to provide fast access at the point of care.' Searches across a variety of sources e.g. Clinical Evidence, Cochrane, the US National Guidelines Clearinghouse, and NEJM's Clinical Practice.
Scirus
Described as 'the most comprehensive science-specific search engine available on the Internet'. From Elsevier.
NLM Gateway
The US National Library of Medicine Gateway allows users to search across Medline and other NLM databases.
Health News
BBC Health News
British Nursing News Online
Google Health News Search
Hitting the Headlines
Reuters Health Information
Health Statistics
Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO)
APHO represents a network of 12 public health observatories in the UK. It produces key public health information for practitioners, policy makers and the wider communities.
Compendium of Clinical and Health Indicators (NCHOD)
Contains information on health outcomes and health indicators including comparative data for 700 health and local government organisations in England. Also includes advise on how to measure the impact of health care.
DH Statistics
Glasgow University Library
A comprehensive guide to of statistics on the web.
Information Centre for Health and Social Care
Provides a wide range of statistical information on various health topics such as hospital care, screening, mental health, presented in a way to assist the NHS and social care services.
Manchester Joint Health Unit
Manchester NHS site from which you can download the Manchester Public Health Annual Report and the Compendium of Health Statistics for the city.
National Statistics
Official UK statistics about health, health services provided by the NHS and social care.
WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
The WHO Statistical Information System is the guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization.
Official Publications
DOH Publications Library
Department of Health site of official publications site - includes all DH publications and replaces the previous POINT and COIN libraries.
The Official Documents Website
Contains full text or summary of selected documents prepared for the internet by The Stationery Office.
Electronic Journals
BioMed Central
Publisher of more than 150 peer-reviewed open access journals.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages.
Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek
A massive listing of electronic medical journals held in 120 German academic libraries. Many titles are English. Access to the full text of any title with a green dot beside it is freely available. Can search by subject.
ERC Library
Wythenshawe Hospital. Our online e-journals catalogue provides direct links to the entire collection of NHS full-text e-journals, various free e-journals plus all the e-journals that we ourselves have subscribed to.
FreeMedicalJournals.com
Lists free medical journals on the web.
Genamics Journal Seek
The largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet.
Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
Large collection of full-text journals mainly in English or Spanish. Very useful for an overview of what's available for free within each medical specialism.
Highwire Press
Stanford University Libraries. Major source of free articles on the Internet.
MedBio World
Links to over 25,000 electronic journals, associations and databases. Includes subject index to find journals for a particular speciality and ranks journals by impact factor. Some journals having searchable access to archived articles with abstracts or full-text.
National Core Content
The full-text electronic journals in the national Core Content are listed on the National Library for Health website.
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
A non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
PubMed Central
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Electronic Books
E-Books
See the Electronic Books link on our home page.
Evaluation Guides
Anyone can create a web page. It is crucial therefore to assess the value of what you find by appraising the quality. The following sites help you do this.
Evaluating Health and Medical Web Sites
A list of links to resources on evaluating health information, from the US National Network of Libraries of Medicine's HEALTHINFOQUEST system.
Internet Medic
A 'teach yourself' tutorial on internet information skills for medics (from Intute's Virtual Training Suite of free online tutorials).
Judge : Web Sites For Health
Guidelines to help health consumers make informed choices about web sites, and to assist support groups to produce good quality web sites. From Judge, a project developed in partnership between Contact a Family and the School of Informatics, Northumbria University.
QuackWatch
A site dedicated to reporting medical fraud and quackery.
