The Doctor's Internet Handbook - sample chapters
The Doctor's Internet Handbook - Samples and Contents |
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Robert Kiley, Information Service Manager, The Wellcome Trust, London £8.50, 1-85315-370-2, paperback, updated in February 2000 |
This brand new introduction to the Internet is ideal for the busy doctor. Concise enough to be read within a couple of hours, the book also contains a wealth of information on worthwhile Web sites, saving the busy health professional hours of work and research. View the list of chapters below, together with the Web sites covered in each chapter. You can also view the full text free of charge for chapter 6, Evidence-Based medicine on the Internet. If you have Acrobat Reader, you can view this chapter in PDF format. (You can download Acrobat Reader, free, here). |
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One: How to get medical information from the Internet Two: Current awareness services on the Internet Three: Medical databases on the Internet: part 1 Four: Medical databases on the Internet: part 2 Five: Internet Discussion Lists Six: Evidence based medicine on the Internet Seven: Medical journals on the World Wide Web |
Eight: Consumer health information on the Internet Nine: Health statistics on the World Wide Web Ten: Medical education on the World Wide Web Eleven: Quality of medical information on the Internet Twelve: The Internet and healthcare - the future Thirteen: Endpiece |
Chapter One How to get medical information from the Internet |
Includes the following resources: |
| Health on the Net | http://www.hon.ch |
| Medical Matrix | http://www.medmatrix.org/index.asp |
| OMNI | http://omni.ac.uk |
| CliniWeb | http://www.ohsu.edu/cliniweb |
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Chapter Two Current awareness services on the Internet |
Includes the following resources: |
| News Tracker | http://nt.excite.com/ |
| NewsPage | http://www.individual.com/ |
| Reuters Health | http://www.reutershealth.com/ |
| Medscape | http://www.medscape.com/ |
| Doctors Guide | http://www.docguide.com/ |
| CDPC | http://www.cdpc.com/ |
| UnCoverWeb | http://uncweb.carl.org/ |
| WebMedLit | http://webmedlit.silverplatter.com/index.html |
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Chapter Three Medical databases on the Internet: part 1 |
Includes the following resources: |
| MEDLINE | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed |
| Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | http://www.update-software.com/cochrane.htm |
| EMBASE | http://www.healthgate.com/help/price/embase.shtml |
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Chapter Four Medical databases on the Internet: part 2 |
Includes the following resources: |
| BIOETHICSLINE | http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/ |
| CancerLit | http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/canlit/cltopic.htm |
| PsycINFO | http://www.healthgate.com/help/price/psycinfo.shtml |
| WISDOM | http://wisdom.wellcome.ac.uk/wisdom/fundhome.html |
| DARE | http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk |
| PharmInfoNet | http://pharminfo.com/ |
| AIDSLINE | http://www.healthgate.com/choice/AMA/search.html |
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Chapter Five Internet Discussion Lists |
Includes the following resources: |
| Directory of Mailing Lists | http://www.topica.com/ |
| Mailbase lists: | http://www.mailbase.ac.uk |
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Chapter Six Evidence based medicine on the Internet |
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Chapter Seven Medical journals on the World Wide Web |
Includes the following resources: |
| Annals of Internal Medicine | http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/annaltoc.htm |
| BMJ | http://www.bmj.com |
| JAMA | http://jama.ama-assn.org/ |
| JCI | http://intl.jci.org/ |
| Lancet | http://www.thelancet.com/ |
| NEJM | http://www.nejm.org/ |
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Chapter Eight Consumer health information on the Internet |
Includes the following resources: |
| NHS Direct Online | http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk |
| Healthfinder | http://www.healthfinder.gov |
| Contact-a-Family (UK) | http://www.cafamily.org.uk/ |
| National Organisation for Rare Diseases (US) | http://www.rarediseases.org/ |
| HebsWeb | http://www.hebs.scot.nhs.uk/ |
| Healthtouch | http://www.healthtouch.com/level1/hi_toc.htm |
| Drug information | http://www.intellihealth.com/ |
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Chapter Nine Health statistics on the World Wide Web |
Includes the following resources: |
| National Center for Health Statistics (US) | http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww |
| Office of National Statistics (UK) | http://www.ons.gov.uk/ |
| WHO Health Report 1999 | http://www.who.int/whr |
| IARC | http://www-dep.iarc.fr/dataava/dataicon.htm |
| American Heart Association | http://www.amhrt.org |
| Coronary Prevention Group | http://healthnet.org.uk/main.html |
| United Nations (AIDS) | http://www.unaids.org/hivaidsinfo/index.html |
| CJD | http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/ |
| Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report | http://www2.cdc.gov/mmwr/ |
| Weekly Epidemiological Report | http://www.who.int/wer/ |
| Communicable Disease Prevention & Control | http://www.cdpc.com |
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Chapter Ten Medical education on the World Wide Web |
Includes the following resources: |
| NIH Consensus Development Program | http://text.nlm.nih.gov/nih/upload-v3/Continuing_Education/cme.html |
| Medscape - CME | http://www.medscape.com/ |
| MRCP Part 1 Question Bank | http://mrcppart1.co.uk |
| X-Ray Files | http://www.radiology.co.uk/xrayfile |
| Interactive Patient | http://medicus.marshall.edu/medicus.htm |
| Virtual Autopsy | http://www.le.ac.uk/pathology/teach/VA |
| Doctor's Guide to the Internet: conferences | http://www.pslgroup.com/MEDCONF.HTM |
| Database of CME Events | http://omni.ac.uk/cme/search-cme.html |
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Chapter Eleven Quality of medical information on the Internet |
Includes the following resources: |
| Health Information Technology Institute | http://hitiweb.mitretek.org/iq/default.asp |
| DISCERN | http://www.discern.org.uk |
| MedPICS | http://medpics.org |
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Chapter Twelve The Internet and healthcare - the future |
Includes the following resources: |
| DXplain | http://www.lcs.mgh.harvard.edu/dxplain.htm |
| WebWeaver | http://www.med.virginia.edu/~wmd4n/medweaver.html |
| Armed Forces Institute of Pathology | http://www.afip.org/telepathology/index.html |
| Interactive Teaching Project in Surgery | http://av.avc.ucl.ac.uk/insurrect/index.html |
| Next Generation Internet Inititiative | http://www.ngi.gov/apps/ |
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Chapter Thirteen Endpiece |
Includes the following resources: |
| The voyeur in you? | http://voyeur.mckinley.com/cgi-bin/voyeur.cgi |
| Rail Planner | http://www.rail.co.uk |
| Internet tutorial | http://www.netskills.ac.uk/TONIC |
| Privacy on the Internet? | http://www.privacy.net |
| Medical Clip Art | http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/2497/ |
| Web Translation Service | http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate? |
| E-mail to fax | http://www.tpc.int |
| Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis | http://home.clara.net/sisa |
| Epi Info | http://www.cdc.gov/epo/epi/epiinfo.htm |
| URL Minder | http://minder.netmind.com/ |
| Travel | http://travel.yahoo.com |
| Statistics at Square 1 | http://www.bmj.com/collections/statsbk/index.shtml |
| British Airways | http://www.british-airways.com/bookonline |
| Hotel Reservations | http://www.hotelworld.com |
| Car Hire | http://www.avis.com/reserve-a-car/ |
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