TOOL Health Education Resources

Looking 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.

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