Research Information

Clinical Medicine

MDConsult
Login and password required. (Health Center staff only: please call 202/416-0408 or email kpomeran@gwu.edu for assistance and passwords).
Full-text access to journal articles, reference texts, practice guidelines, drug information, and patient education materials.
http://www.mdconsult.com

DynaMed
Medical information database with description and ICD-9 codes for more than 2,000 disease.
http://www.DynamicMedical.com

MDchoice.com
Search engine to locate medical information selected and reviewed by board-certified physicians.
http://www.mdchoice.com

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Concise etiology, diagnosis, and treatment information.
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/sections.htm

Medscape
News, treatment updates, clinical management, practice guidelines, conference summaries, and links to medical specialty pages.
http://www.medscape.com

Clinical Trials

ClinicalTrials.gov
Current clinical trials.
http://clinicaltrials.gov

PDQ
Clinical trials for cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics and supportive care
http://www.nci.nih.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cancerdatabase

CenterWatch
Government and industry sponsored clinical trials.
http://www.centerwatch.com

AIDS Info: AIDS Clinical Trials Information
Federally and privately sponsored clinical trials and AIDS Clinical Trial Results Database.
http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/clinical_trials/

Cultural Competence

Central American Immigrants in the Washington Region: A Manual for Providers (1998, 28 pages in Word). By La Clinica del Pueblo's Cultural Sensitivity Program. Compliments of Isabel von Isschot.

Bureau of Primary Health Care, HRSA, see the Bureau's Clearinghouse for publications.
http://www.bphc.hrsa.gov

National Center for Cultural Competence from the Georgetown University Child Development Center.
http://www3.georgetown.edu/research/gucchd/nccc

Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care.
http://www.diversityrx.org

Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Medicine from the University of Wisconsin.
http://www.wisc.edu/crem

Disparities in Health

State Health Facts from the Kaiser Family Foundation documents disparities by race, ethnicity, and gender for states in HIV/AIDS, women's health, children's health and other areas.
http://statehealthfacts.kff.org

Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care from the Institute of Medicine, 2002.
http://www.iom.edu/report.asp?id=4475

National Association of County and City Health Officials
http://www.naccho.org

Office of Minority Health
www.omhrc.gov

Inequality Web Site posts analysis of race and income inequalities and differentials in health and other outcomes.
http://www.inequality.org

Health Inequalities, draft slide show from MWPHA, 9/2005.

Evaluating Information

Evaluating Health Information from MedlinePlus, National Library of Medicine, links to resources on evaluating health web sites, diet information, supplements, and guidelines on evaluation criteria.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/evaluatinghealthinformation.html

Integrity in Science Project of the Center for Science in the Public Interest from CSPI investigates how industry influences science, health, and nutrition information.
http://www.cspinet.org/integrity/about.html

Alliance for Human Research Protection from the AHRP publishes alerts and news about conflicts of interest in research and drug company influences on psychiatric research results.
http://www.ahrp.org/

Unbiased Medicine.org by Charles Goldman MD, an associate professor of psychiatry, promotes integrity in science and helps people identify bias in medical research, particularly in psychiatric research.
http://unbiasedmedicine.org

No Free Lunch from a group of health care providers links to studies that demonstrate the influence of drug company promotion on health care decisions by providers.
http://www.nofreelunch.org

Guidelines

National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)
Federal government-produced database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
http://www.guideline.gov

MDConsult
Login and password required. (Health Center staff only: Please ask 202/416-0408 for assistance).
Full-text practice guidelines.
http://www.mdconsult.com

Recommendations regarding public health interventions to reduce illness, disability, premature death, and environmental hazards that impair community health and quality of life.
Guide to Community Preventive Servicesby Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
http://www.thecommunityguide.org

HIV AIDS Treatment Center: Clinical Guidelines
Published guidelines on prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
http://www.ama-assn.org/special/hiv/treatmnt/guide.htm

CDC: Prevention Guidelines Database
Official guidelines published by CDC.
http://aepo-xdv-www.epo.cdc.gov/wonder/PrevGuid/PrevGuid.htm

Health Literacy

Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, a report from the Institute of Medicine, 2004.
http://www.iom.edu/report.asp?id=19723

Clear and Simple Communication from the National Cancer Institute.
http://cancer.gov/cancerinformation/clearandsimple

National Institute for Literacy has resources on different forms of literacy. See its Health and Literacy site at http://www.worlded.org/us/health/lincs/ for health resources and lesson plans.
http://www.nifl.gov

State Education Agency for Adult Education lists opportunities for classes on literacy, the GED, and ESOL.
http://dcadultliteracy.org

Virginia Education Health Literacy Toolkit provides information and lesson plans to promote health literacy.
http://www.aelweb.vcu.edu/publications/healthlit

National Center for ESL Literacy Education has resources on health literacy for ESL learners and teachers, including lesson plans and picture stories on health.
http://www.cal.org/ncle/

Literacy and Health in America, from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) with Rima Rudd and others, discusses the relationship of literacy and health (outside of the medical care system) and introduces a new measurement device: the Health Activities Literacy Scale (HALS).
http://www.ets.org/research/pic/literacy&health.pdf

Medication Information

Partners Medication Page

Needy Meds lists drugs pharmaceutical companies make available in the "compassionate" drug programs with instructions for requesting them.

Statistical Information (Local)

General Sites

CDC Wonder
wonder.cdc.gov
Search by various conditions and diseases for DC and surrounding areas. Datasets from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Health US, 2003 Home page
Search by location, gender, group, and years.
From the National Center for Health Statistics.

FASTATS A to Z: District of Columbia Health Facts
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/popup_dc.htm
Brief statistical information plus links to additional sources including causes of death and death rates, AIDS cases, and hospital care expenditures.

D.C. Office of Planning: State Data Center
http://dclibrary.org/sdc
Information from the U.S. Census on D.C. includes tables and data maps on population, housing, poverty, employment, and education. City-wide, ward, and census tract figures available.

TeleAtlas: Census Tract Numbers
http://geocode.com/eagle.html
Allows users to type in a street address and retrieve census track and block numbers, and maps.

DC Department of Health
http://dchealth.dc.gov
Reports and Data
State Center for Health Statistics Administration

District of Columbia Home Page
http://www.washingtondc.gov

Kids Count Data Online
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/databook
State-specific data on children in the U.S. Customizable graphs present state indicators graphed over time; maps show color-coded U.S. maps of the U.S.; interactive feature ranking all states according to an indicator. By the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

U.S. Census Bureau: State and County Demographic and Economic Profiles
http://quickfacts.census.gov/
Population, demographic, and housing statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau.

American FactFinder
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet
Find Census data for street addresses.

Partners for Health Information
GWUMC, Washington, DC, with funding from NLM.
Contact: 202/416-0408 or kpomeran@gwu.edu
Updated on September 25, 2005.