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Proposal for a Pilot Integrated Medical System
Article addresses the role of complementary medicine in American heath care delivery, by Elizabeth Z. Coleman, MD, James M. Price, MSW, MPA.

 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Prevention Guidelines Database
Searchable compendium of all of the official guidelines and recommendations published by the US CDC for the prevention of diseases, injuries and disabilities.

 
Competing Practice Guidelines: Using Cost-Effectiveness Anyalysis to Make Optimal Decisions
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1 Jan 1998. Six clinical guidelines are compared for maximizing overall population benefit versus best individual treatment.

 
Joslin Diabetes Center
 
Medwatch - Medical Products Reporting Program
Sponsored by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; purpose is to enhance the effectiveness of postmarketing surveillance of medical products as they are used in clinical practice and to rapidly identify significant health hazards associated wi.

 
American Health Options
International healthcare service company offering diagnostic and surgical procedures to domestic and international healthcare buyers.

 
RxAssist
Searchable database of application criteria and forms used by physicians and dentists applying for free pharmaceuticals for their uninsured patients.

 
Scope and Standards of Psychiatric - Mental Health Clinical Nursing Practice
Draft by the American Nurses Association, the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses.

 
Canadian Medical Association Clinical Practice Guidelines Infobase
Collection of current Canadian practice guidelines produced or endorsed in Canada by a medical organization, professional society, government agency or expert panel.

 
Health Care Policy
 
Clinical Practice Guidelines Infobase
Searchable database of full-text guidelines from the Canadian Medical Association.

 
Decision Systems Group
 
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Contains practice standards organized by disease and treatment or intervention.

 
American College of Chest Physicians Consensus Statements
Clinical guidelines and information regarding chest and lung disorders.

 
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Maintained by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; extensive information about approved and newly approved drugs. Frequently updated.

 
Diabetes Technologies, Inc.
Case management services.

 
Karl Münger Laboratory
 
Skill Standards for Healthcare Workers
Standards for allied health professionals as developed by the National Health Care Skill Standards Project.

 
Memorandum of Understanding Among the Organizations Designated to Manage the Maintenance of the Electronic Data Interchange Standards Adopted Under HIPAA 1996
Proposed by the American Hospital Association to address the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 mandates.

 
Subpart M - Personnel for Moderate and High Complexity Testing
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) and the Physician's Office Laboratory - Interpretive Guidelines.

 
Counseling to Prevent Dental and Periodontal Disease
From the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, Second Edition.

 
Evidence Based Health Care Toolkit
Compiled by Northwestern University Galter Library, for practicing clinicians and students to become efficient users of the medical literature for making clinical decisions based on evidence cited in the literature.

 
Calling All Nurses: How to Perform Telephone Triage
Published in Nursing97, July, 1997.

 
Needy Meds
Resource for finding assistance programs sponsored by pharmaceutical companies for low-income patients.

 
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines - Index
Clinical guidelines, clinical content listing, and other patient care resources. University of California at San Francisco.

 
New England Centenarian Study
 
Principles for Nurse Staffing
A discussion of the nine principles identified by the expert panel for nurse staffing and adopted by the ANA Board of Directors on November 24, 1998.

 
Practice Guidelines for Psychiatric Consultation in the General Medical Setting
Developed by the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine in 1998.

 
Health Level 7
One of several ANSI-accredited Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs). Protocols for clinical and administrative data.

 
Advising Patients Who Seek Alternative Medical Therapies
Article by Dr. David Eisenberg proposes a systematic approach whereby medical providers and patients can discuss alternative medical treatments. July, 1997.

 
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines 1998
Document is in pdf format. Developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Update of the 1993 recommendations.

 
Center for Molecular Imaging Research
 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) WONDER
Single point-of-access to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, prevention guidelines and numeric data sets. Users may also post relevant information.

 
Guidelines for the Clinical Use of Electronic Mail with Patients
White paper by Beverley Kane and Daniel Z. Sands. Originally printed in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Jan./Feb. 1998.

 
Recommendations for Preventive Interventions
Report provides recommendations for prirmary care clinical practice on screening tests, counseling interventions, immunizations, and chemoprophylactic regimens for the prevention of more than 80 target conditions.

 
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