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(see also the Online Textbooks in Emergency Medicine)

Baren: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 1st ed.; 2007. --- MDConsult

emedicine: Emergency Medicine
An on-line medical reference. Free registration required.

Emergency Medicine on the Web
More than 50 clinical decision support tools from homepage of The National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics.

The Gist of Emergency Medicine
The entire edition is available to download in a variety of formats.

The Internet Journal of Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine
Peer-reviewed Internet only journal providing full text articles.

The Internet Journal of Emergency Medicine
Peer-reviewed Internet only journal providing full text articles.

Marx: Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, 7th ed.;2009. --- MDConsult

Roberts: Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine, 5th ed.; 2009. --- MDConsult

Wilderness Emergencies, Survivial, and First Aid
Content that is continually updated and physician peer-reviewed provides a "what-to-do" when confronted with wilderness medical emergency situations. Free registration required.

(see also the Online Textbooks in Endocrinology)

AACE Clinical Practice Guidelines
Contains 12 sets of clinical guidelines for endocrine conditions and 2 position statements.

Clinical Diabetes
Another journal from the American Diabetes Association that provides information on advances and state-of-the-art care for people with diabetes. It also discusses diabetes-related problems in practice, medical-legal issues, case studies, digests of recent research, and patient education materials.

Diabetes Watch
A multidisciplinary resource for clinicians and physicians who treat patients with diabetes.

The Genetic Landscape of Diabetes
Laura Dean, MD created this as a work in progress since the genetics of diabetes is continually changing. With links to live searches of the latest published literature and data this book should remain up to date for the utilization by the busy clinician.

Kronenberg: Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, 11th ed.; 2008. --- MDConsult

Thyroid Disease Manager
This website contains a newly revised version of the textbook "The Thyroid and its Diseases" and supplementary information providing authoritative, complete and current analysis of all aspects of human thyroid physiology and thyroid disease.

(see also the Online Textbooks in Epidemiology)

Epidemiology for the Uninitiated, 4th ed.; 1997.
This short online book by D. Coggins and others, provides a simplified overview to the epidemiological approach, the terminology utilized, and its methodology.

Epidemiology WWW Virtual Library Database
From the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco.

MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), data are provisional, based on weekly reports to CDC by state health departments.

NCHS Data Warehouse
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) provides tabulated state data to include charts and graphs for mortality and disease statistics.

World Gazetteer
Provides a comprehensive set of population data and related statistics.

(see also the Evidence-Based Practice Tools page)

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews - Cochrane Database (in full text) via Ovid
This is the full text of the Cochrane Library of Evidence Based Medicine Reviews. Fully searchable, it provides evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. When not on the Samaritan network, a username and password is required and obtainable from any library staff memeber.

ACP PIER & AHFS DI Essentials - 2009 --- STAT!Ref
ACP PIER is a collection of over 400 evidence summaries published by the American College of Physicians. Topics selected by ACP for this Point-of-Care Tool are based upon prevelance in clinical settings.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Clinical Practice Guidelines
Formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research developed statements and recommendations to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical conditions.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence-Based Practice Resources
These have been created to inform and develop coverage decisions, quality measures, educational materials and tools, and guidelines in clinical decision-making.

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Established in Oxford England whose broad aim is to promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them.

Clinical Care Guidelines from the University of Michigan
These guidelines from the University of Michigan Health System are based on empirical evidence, other evidence-based guidelines prepared by nationally recognized groups, and expert consensus about practical considerations in providing care.

Cochrane Reviews
Published on a quarterly basis it consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases providing high quality information to people who provide and receive care and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels. Search abstracts of Cochrane Systematic Reviews free-of-charge.

Core Library for Evidence Based Practice
Links to full-text documents on all aspects of Evidence Based Practice.

Decisional Analysis and Statistics
Find information on over 45 tests and performance measures utilized in clinical medicine that all including references; some with tables.

Evidence-Based On-Call
This database is designed for hospital clinicians who want to integrate the best available evidence with their own personal skills and expertise to improve the care of their patients. Each topic covered in Evidence-based On Call provides a series of recommendations about issues to consider when caring for your patients.

National Comprehensive Cancer Network Practice Guidelines in Oncology by Cancer Site
These guidelines, developed as algorithms, encompass 95% of the tumors encountered in oncology practices. Each individual guideline is posted with its latest update date and version number. Free registration required.

National Guideline Clearinghouse
Produced in collaboration by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research(AHCPR), American Medical Association (AMA) and American Association of Health Plans (AAHP).

Netting the Evidence
Intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by providing support and access to helpful organizations and useful learning resources on the Internet, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals.

New Zealand Guideline Group
Promotes effective delivery of health and disability services all based on evidence-based medicine.

Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines
UCSF School of Medicine presents a searchable listing of on-line guidelines grouped by clinical content with index.

TRIP : Turning Research Into Practice Database
The TRIP Database searches over 55 sites of high-quality medical information providing hyperlinked access to the largest collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web as well as articles from peer-reviewed journals and 'other' publications.