Alternatives to Google for searching for health care information online.
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ooking
for some other resources to add to your company’s intranet? Here’s a sampling that
experts suggest:
www.besttreatments.org/risk:
The British Medical Journal provides an easy-to-navigate explanation of how to
evaluate medical risk.
www.clinicaltrials.gov: A National
Institutes of Health site that allows users to search for research trials.
www.leapfroggroup.org: Allows users to
research the number of heart bypasses and other surgical procedures their local
hospitals perform.
www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html: The Medical Library Association suggests
how to best evaluate medical information. There are also links to disease-specific
Web sites.
www.ncqa.org: The National Committee for Quality
Assurance allows users to research health plans.
www.pubmed.gov: Often cited as an alternative
to general search engines, this site is operated by the National Library of Medicine.
Note: Workforce Management does not endorse these sites and is not
responsible for their content.
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ooking
for some other resources to add to your company’s intranet? Here’s a sampling that
experts suggest:
