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Health-Related Internet Resources > Health Research / Policy-Making
- Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment
Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (CCOHTA) is a non-profit corporation funded by the federal, provincial and territorial ministers of health. Our mission is to encourage the appropriate use of health technology by providing evidence-based information on the effectiveness and cost of technology and its impact on health.
- Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
"CIHI is a federally chartered but independent, not-for-profit organization. It brings programs, functions and activities from The Hospital Medical Records Institute (HMRI), The MIS Group, Health Canada (Health Information Division) and Statistics Canada (Health Statistics Division) together under one roof. Its activities include: "collecting, processing and maintaining a comprehensive and growing number of health databases and registries, covering health human resources, health services and health expenditures; setting national standards for financial, statistical and clinical data as well as standards for health informatics technology; producing value-added analysis from its information holdings." See also its page Facts and Figures for national and provincial information on health expenditures, professionals, and services.
- Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF)
A foundation established to identify gaps and needs in the area of health services research, and to fund peer-adjudicated research and promote best practices in health services delivery.
- Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR), at UBC
- Clinical Practice Guidelines:
- CDC Wonder
"CDC WONDER provides query access to about 40 text-based and numeric databases. CDC WONDER also provides free-text search facilities and document retrieval for several important text datasets, including the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from 1982 to the present, and CDC Prevention Guidelines."
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford, UK, aims to promote evidence-based health care. This site features information about the Centre and pertaining to the activities of the Centre, and information of particular relevance to Evidence-Based Health Care.
- Clinical Microbiology Proficiency Testing (CMPT)
An external quality assessment (EQA) program of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC. The CMPT site provides information on the challenges sent out to microbiology laboratories, and their performances. The site provides up to date educational critiques, annual reports, the CMPT newsletter, and an avenue for comments and communication.
- Cochrane Collaboration
"The Cochrane Collaboration facilitates the creation, review, maintenance and dissemination of high quality overviews of the effects of health care."
- Health Economics
Interesting list of links to resources on health economics, evaluation of health care technologies, public health and epidemiology, managed care/health care industry, and more. Compiled at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
- Health Information Research Unit (HIRU), McMaster University
Research on Evidence-Based Health Informatics, including information on practice guidelines, clinical preventive services, and links to many related sites.
- Health Policy Page
Part of Idea Central, a new virtual magazine of the Electronic Policy Network, The Health Policy Page carries new articles, reports, and other information about health care policy in America, much of the material from leading policy research and advocacy organizations. Interesting links on Quality Improvement and Information Technology, Development of Computer Networks and Standards, and Privacy and Security issues.
- HSTAT (Health Services/Technology Assessment Text)
Full-text databases from the National Library of Medicine accessing clinical practice guidelines, NIH Consensus Statements, and HIV/AIDS treatment information.
- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario (ICES)
A non-profit research organization dedicated to conducting research that contributes to the effectiveness, quality and efficiency of health care in the province of Ontario.
- International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE)
"A non-profit international professional membership organization dedicated to promoting pharmacoepidemiology, the science which applies epidemiologic approaches to studying the use, effectiveness, value and safety of pharmaceuticals. ISPE is firmly committed to providing an unbiased scientific forum to the views of all parties with interests in drug development, drug delivery, drug use, drug costs, and drug effects."
- Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation
A research unit at the University of Manitoba, MCHPE conducts research on the way health care services are used by Manitobans, examines patterns of illness in the population, and studies the use of health care services and the factors that affect health. Note the MCHPE Concept Index, which holds an extensive, interlinked network of terms, concepts, and related papers.
- Netting the Evidence: A SCHARR Introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Internet
A comprehensive list of Internet resources on evidence based practice compiled by Andrew Booth, Head of Information Resources, Sheffield Centre for Health & Related Research (SCHARR).
- Population Index
Online version of Princeton University's quarterly bibliography "covers all fields of interest to demographers, including fertility, mortality, population size and growth, migration, nuptiality and the family, research methodology, projections and predictions, historical demography, and demographic and economic interrelations."
- Statistics Canada
Provides a number of services including a world wide web service, a gopher service, an FTP site, a Listserver with three mailing lists and a number of search facilities. Information available include statistical fact sheets, highlights of newly released data and publications, selected full-text research papers, and more. See also Facts and Figures for national and provincial information on health expenditures, professionals, and services (Canadian Institute for Health Information).
- (U.S.) Health Statistics
An excellent review of mostly U.S. sources in this 1997 article from College & Research Libraries News.
Last Revised: 31 October 2002
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