AMNCH - Database External Resources

 Agency for Healthcare Research Quality -AHRQ

This link connects to the homepage of the AHRQ. The AHRQ is the USA Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality—a Federal agency for research on health care quality, costs, outcomes, and patient safety.

It is home to research centers that specialize in major areas of health care research:

Quality improvement and patient safety.
Outcomes and effectiveness of care.
Clinical practice and technology assessment.
Health care organization and delivery systems.
Primary care (including preventive services).
Health care costs and sources of payment.

It aims to be a science partner, working with the public and private sectors to build the knowledge base for what works—and does not work—in health and health care and to translate this knowledge into everyday practice and policymaking.

Its main goals are to identify the most effective ways to organize, manage, finance, and deliver high-quality care; reduce medical errors; and improve patient safety.

AHRQ aims to:

Support improvements in health outcomes.
Develop strategies to strengthen quality measurement and improvement.
Identify strategies to improve health care access, foster appropriate use, and reduce unnecessary expenditures.

http://www.ahrq.gov/

 All Ireland Practice & Quality Development Database

The National Council for the Professional development for Nursing and Midwifery (NCNM) and the Northern Ireland Practice and Education Council for Nursing and Midwifery (NIPEC) have collaborated to promote the sharing of good practice on an All-Ireland basis.

They have developed a database 'Development of Practice' which will be accessible from both organisations websites.

Aims

This database aims to provide:

A focal point for gathering and disseminating good practice.
Recognition of innovation and personal achievement.
Raised awareness of practice initiatives throughout the island of Ireland.
Information and encourage access to examples of good practice within the nursing and midwifery professions.

Objectives

This website hopes to:

Provide a resource which willlead to the avoidance of unnecessary duplication of effort.
Enhance networking opportunities.

http://www.nipec.org/

 Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation - AGREE

This link connects to the homepage of AGREE. It is an international collaboration of researchers and policy makers who aim to work together to improve the quality and effectiveness of clinical practice guidelines by establishing a shared framework for their development, reporting and assessment. It started in 1998 as a research project ‘Appraising clinical guidelines' under the Biomedicine and Health Research (BIOMED 2) Programme, funded by the European Union - www.cordis.lu/biomed/home.html . The project was coordinated by the Department of Public Health Sciences at St George's Hospital Medical School www.sghms.ac.uk and ended in June 2001. The main objective was to develop an appraisal instrument to assess clinical guidelines and to harmonise guideline development across Europe in order to minimize duplication of efforts.

In November 2002 the AGREE Collaboration received additional funding from the Accompanying Measures EU funded programme of the 5 th Framework until April 2004 to further disseminate and implement the AGREE Instrument. This was again coordinated by the Department of Public Health Sciences at St George's Hospital Medical School in London. The central aim of the project was to enhance effective health care policy in Europe by promoting the diffusion of a comprehensive approach to the production, dissemination and evaluation of high-quality clinical guidelines through established networks

http://www.agreecollaboration.org

 BIOME

BIOME is a collection of gateways which provide access to evaluated, quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners.

http://biome.ac.uk/

 Cancer and Palliative Care Information Service(CAPCIS)

This link connects to the homepage of CAPCIS which is funded by the UK Big Lottery. It is intended to be a practical, "one-stop shop", cancer and palliative-care, information service for everyday use, offering high quality, up-to-date resources - and adopting robust evidence-based and knowledge-management approaches.

The Cancer And Palliative Care Information Service is an internet information gateway which aims to provide an organised, easily-accessible and up-to-date directory of key services, service providers and appraised information on cancer and progressive, life-limiting, palliative-care conditions. There are resources for patients and professionals, including information on benefits and legal matters. The emphasis is on quality and an evidence-based approach.

http://www.capcis.org.uk/cms/page.php?p=

 Clip Art Ware house

This link connects to the home page of a free clip art service. It contains images, animated gifs, lines and balls which are public. It also contains 3D icons and matching sets, which they have created, which are not part of the public domain. These can be also used as long as a link is provided to this site along with the image etc.

http://www.clipart.co.uk/index.shtml

 COCHRANE RESOURCES

A unique source of reliable and regularly updated evidence based information. It includes The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, which aims to provide high quality information to people providing and receiving care and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels. Free access to the Cochrane Library is available in the UK, funded by the National Electronic Library for Health. Access the Cochrane Library by clicking on the LOG ON ANONYMOUSLY button or by registering a username and password of your choice.

http://www.ask.com/http://www.update-software.com/clibng/cliblogon.htm

http://www.update-software.com/cochrane/

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This link connects to the public web site of the Cochran Collaboration

http://www.cochrane.org/index0.htm

and the library can be accessed via:

http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/clibintro.htm

and archived documents can be found via:

http://www.cochrane.org/archives/index.htm

 Collaborative Community Health Project

This link connects tot he homepage of the Collaborative Communities for Health (CC4H) which is an initiative meant for health providers, researchers, educators and administrators. It aims to provide users with a quick, convenient and seamless method for collaborating over the Internet. Users can set-up projects, which give them access to a number of tools, including:
 Forums
 Mailing Lists
 Project Management Tools (Tasks Manager, Gantt Charts)
 Simple Document Manager
 A project website (with a URL pointing to projectname.cc4h.com)
 Recruitment Tools (for recruiting help to your project)

http://cc4h.com/

 Elsevier

This link connects to the homepage of Elsevier a multiple-media publisher of scientific, technical and health information products and services, with 7,000 employees in 99 locations around the globe.

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home

This link connects with the Elsevier nursing page, which provides a list of their resources available relating to nursing.

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/subject_all_products_browse.cws_home/H04?SH1Code=H04&showProducts=Y

 Entrez

This is the integrated, text-based search and retrieval system of the National Centre for Biotechnology Information. It includes public databases, and research in computational biology.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

 Health on the Net Foundation

This link connects to the HON foundation portal. It aims to guide practitioners as well as lay persons to useful and reliable online medical and health information.

http://www.hon.ch/

 Health Service Executive of Ireland (HSE) Libraries Online

This is the HSE gateway to an electronic library of health information.

It aims to provide:

Comprehensive high quality knowledge content.
Key resources such as:
- Full text electronic journals.
- Databases of Journal articles.
- Irish Health Publications Archive.
- Directory of HSE Libraries.

It can be accessed from work or home and operates 24/7.

It is envisaged that these services will extend and develop in the future.

http://www.hselibrary.ie

 Internurse

This link connects to the home page of Iinternurse.com, which is an online resource of continuously updated, fully searchable library of over 8,000 peer-reviewed articles. It aims to enable practitioners to keep up to date with the latest clinical developments and research in order to support their practise.

http://www.internurse.com/

 ISABEL

This link connects to the homepage of the Isabel -Paediatric Diagnosis Reminder and Knowledge Mobilising System – a clinical decision support system. Its aims to provide a diagnosis reminder system which instantly provides the clinician a checklist of likely diagnoses in the clinical workflow.

http://www.isabel.org.uk/index.jsp

 National Electronic Library for Health (NeLH) Nurse portal

This link connects directly to the NeLH homepage. The National electronic Library for Health Programme aims to provide a digital library for NHS staff, as well as patients and the public.

http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/nurse/

 NMAP

NMAP offers free access to a searchable catalogue of hand-selected and evaluated, quality Internet resources in Nursing, Midwifery and the Allied health Professions. The database contains 3628 resources and is updated weekly.
http://nmap.ac.uk/

 Nurse2Nurse

This link connects directly to the Irish Nurses Organisations online resource homepage, which was created for Irish Nurses and Midwives. You are required to be a member of the Irish Nurses Organisation in order to utilise this resource. It facilitates access to:
 Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL)
 British Nursing Index (BNI)
 Medline
 Twenty eight full text nursing journals
Searches can be conducted from your place of work; home or anywhere you have Internet access.

http://nurse2nurse.ie/

 Nurse Quicklinks

This link connects to the NHS nurse portal.

http://www.nursequicklinks.co.uk/n-page.htm

 OMNI

OMNI offers free access to a searchable catalogue of hand-selected and evaluated, quality Internet resources in Health and Medicine. The database contains 8426 resources and is updated weekly.

http://omni.ac.uk/

 OVID

This link connects directly to the gateway connection to the OVID online database resources. You are required to have a username and password, which is either facilitated by an organisational or individual subscription.

http://auth.athensams.net/?ath_dspid=NISS.BIOMED&ath_returl=%22http://biomed1.niss.ac.uk/cgi-bin/login.cgi%22

 PubMed

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine free digital resource of biomedical and life science journal literature. It also provides links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

 Science Direct

This link connects with ScienceDirect, which is an electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/

 TRIP Database

This link connects to the login page of the TRIP Database, which is a medical Internet resource. It was created as a result of the explosion of 'evidence based’ materials being published. It aims to provide a high-quality resource that allows unhindered access to the publication. The Title, URL and Date of Publication is recorded and added to the database. Subsequently the URL is 'spidered' and this process 'captures' the relevant text from the site and uses that to allow text searching. It should be noted that users could use the database for 5 free searches per week

http://www.tripdatabase.com/

 Zetoc

Zetoc aims to provide access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. The database covers 1993 to date, and is updated on a daily basis. It includes an email alerting service, to enable you to keep up-to-date with relevant new articles and papers. In addition once you have found an article of interest, the full record page provides three links to help you access the full text.

http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/index.html

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Author: Geraldine Hiney