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Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research
www.ahfmr.ab.ca
Canada
The Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) established the HTA program under the Health Research Collaboration Agreement between it and Alberta Health & Wellness.
Health technology assessment (HTA), evaluates the properties and effects of health care technology and provides information to support all health care decisions at local, regional, national, and international levels.
Responding to the needs of organizations and individuals, the HTA unit studies these new health care ideas. Clearly formulated requests concerning technologies important to Alberta health care are welcome.
Bandolier
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/
United Kingdom
The impetus behind Bandolier was to find information about evidence of effectiveness (or lack of it), and put the results forward as simple bullet points of those things that worked and those that did not: a bandolier with bullets. Information comes from systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomised trials, and from high quality observational studies.
Each month PubMed and the Cochrane Library are searched for systematic reviews and meta-analyses published in the recent past. Those that look remotely interesting are read, and where they are both interesting and make sense, they appear in Bandolier, first in the paper version and, after two months or so, on the website.
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)
https://www.cadth.ca/
Canada
The vision of the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health is to facilitate the appropriate and effective utilization of health technologies within health care systems across Canada. Our mission is to provide timely, relevant and rigorously derived evidence-based information to decision makers and support for the decision-making processes.
Canadian Patient Safety Institute
http://www.patientsafetyinstitute.ca/
Canada
The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) has a national mandate to build and advance a safer health system for Canadians. It does this by fostering collaboration between governments and stakeholders, supporting the development of patient safety initiatives that will help the Canadian healthcare system become the safest and best in the world.
Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
http://www.ctfphc.org/
Canada
Designed to serve as a practical guide to health care providers, planners and consumers for determining the inclusion or exclusion, content and frequency of a wide variety of preventive health interventions, using the evidence-based recommendations of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC).
Clinical Practice Guidelines and Protocols in BC
http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/gpac/index.html
Canada
Clinicians in Canada and other countries increasingly use practice guidelines and protocols to improve patient care and health outcomes. Guidelines and protocols help physicians offer the best possible care for their patients by providing recommendations based on scientific evidence and expert clinical opinion.
In B.C., guidelines and protocols are developed under the direction of the Guidelines and Protocols Advisory Committee (GPAC), jointly sponsored by the B.C. Medical Association and the Ministry of Health.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
http://www.ihi.org/
United States
We will improve the lives of patients, the health of communities, and the joy of the health care workforce. We will accelerate the measurable and continual progress of health care systems throughout the world.
Medscape
http://www.medscape.com/familymedicine-home
United States
Medscape offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. After a simple, 1-time, free registration, Medscape automatically delivers you the specialty site that best fits your profile. You can also change your Medscape homepage to any of our other specialty and profession sites at any time.
National Guideline Clearing House
http://www.guideline.gov/
United States
The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
National Institute for Clinical Excellence
http://www.nice.org.uk/
United Kingdom
NICE is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health. On 1 April 2005 NICE joined with the Health Development Agency to become the new National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (also to be known as NICE).
OpenClinical
http://www.openclinical.org/about.html
United Kingdom
The OpenClinical Web site is aimed in particular at healthcare professionals and managers, medical informaticians and computer scientists and industry. It is designed to be a "one-stop shop" for anyone interested in learning about and tracking developments on advanced knowledge management technologies for healthcare such as point-of-care decision support systems, "intelligent" guidelines and clinical workflow.
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
http://www.sign.ac.uk/
Scotland
The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) was formed in 1993. Our objective is to improve the quality of health care for patients in Scotland by reducing variation in practice and outcome, through the development and dissemination of national clinical guidelines containing recommendations for effective practice based on current evidence.
TRIP Database
http://www.tripdatabase.com/
United Kingdom
TRIP offers subscription based reliable evidence in healthcare searched quickly and intelligently with one interface.
Health Canada - Adverse Reaction Reporting
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/medeff/report-declaration/index_e.html
Canada
Health Canada, through the Canadian Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Program, is responsible for collecting and assessing adverse reaction reports for the following health products marketed in Canada: pharmaceuticals, biologics (including fractionated blood products as well as therapeutic and diagnostic vaccines), natural health products and radiopharmaceuticals.
Bugs and Drugs Program
http://www.dobugsneeddrugs.org/
Canada
Do Bugs Need Drugs?® is a community education project to address the problem of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistance has resulted from the overuse of antibiotics, mostly for respiratory tract infections.