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Diabetes | Prevention and Screening |
Primary Care - Professional Associations
Clinical Guidelines/Care Models | Quality Improvement/Clinical Safety | General Interest
Consumer-Orientated Sites
| www.diabetes.org | The web site of the American Diabetes Association. Contains information about diabetes and diabetes care for consumers and professionals. ADA guidelines available free. Requires subscription for professional journals. | Physicians Health care professionals Consumers |
| www.ndep.nih.gov | The National Diabetes Education Program has consumer-targeted diabetes education tools, including downloadable brochures and materials for promotional programs. Also has materials in languages other than English. | Physicians Health care professionals Consumers |
| www.diabetes-sight.org | Up-to-date information on diabetic retinopathy. | Physicians Consumers |
| www.cdc.gov/cancer | Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDCs cancer control and prevention section. includes data, brochures, fact sheets, patient education materials, publications software, and videos. Most everything is free. | Physicians Health care professionals |
| www.cdc.gov/nip/flu | Access to CDC materials on flu including data, fact sheets, patient education and awareness materials. Foreign language materials available. Free. | Physicians Health care professionals |
| www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/ncep | National Cholesterol Education Program. Provides clinical guidelines for cholesterol management. | Physicians Health care professionals |
Primary Care – Professional Associations
| www.acponline.org | Online access to the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine resources. Resources include: clinical guidelines, practice management tips, CME, journal access, discussion groups. | Physicians |
| www.aafp.org | The web site of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Contains clinical and practice management information as well as news and continuing medical education. | Physicians |
| www.ama-assn.org | The American Medical Association web site. Contains clinical, policy, and news, and general information for doctors. Also contains a patient health information section. | Physicians |
Clinical Guidelines/Care Models
| www.icsi.org | The Institute for Clinical systems Improvement. Up-to-date, evidence-based, clinical guidelines, including algorithms. Guideline impact studies (impact of guidelines on outcome, cost), process improvement reports (members’ successes), and technology assessment (learn about new technologies and their applications). | Physicians Health care professionals |
| www.ahcpr.gov/clinic/ppipix.htm | AHRQs program to increase the appropriate use of clinical preventive services, such as screening tests, immunizations, and counseling, based on U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations. | Physicians Health care professionals |
| www.improvingchroniccare.org | Improving Chronic Illness Care (ICIC). A national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Models, tools, improvement guides for providing chronic illness care. |
Physicians Health care professionals |
Quality Improvement/Patient Safety
| www.ihi.org | The Institute for Healthcare Improvement offers resources and services to help healthcare organizations make long-lasting improvements that enhance clinical outcomes and reduce cost. | Physicians Health care professionals |
| www.qualityhealthcare.org | A collaborative effort between IHI and the British Medical Journal providing a global knowledge environment to help health care professionals around the world accelerate their progress toward unprecedented levels of performance and improvement. | Physicians Health care professionals |
| www.qualityindicators.ahcpr.gov | Direct link to the AHRQ quality indicators. | Physicians Health care professionals |
| www.qualityforum.org | The mission of the National Quality Forum (NQF) is to improve American healthcare through endorsement of consensus-based national standards for measurement and public reporting of healthcare performance data that provide meaningful information about whether care is safe, timely, beneficial, patient-centered, equitable and efficient. The NQF is a collaboration among several agencies (including CMS and JCAHO) seeking to standardize quality measures and publicly report on those measures. | Health care professionals |
| www.ismp.org | Institute for Safe Medication Practices is a nonprofit organization that works closely with healthcare practitioners and institutions, regulatory agencies, professional organizations and the pharmaceutical industry to provide education about adverse drug events and their prevention. Everything you need to know about error reduction. | Physicians Health care professionals |
| http://elearning.qualitynet.org/ | DOQ-IT University | |
| http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ | Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Information Technology | |
| http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) | |
| http://www.medqic.org/ | Medicare Quality Improvement Community (MedQIC) | |
| http://www.improvingchroniccare.org/ | Improving Chronic Illness Care (ICIC) | |
| http://www.ihi.org/ihi/ | Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) | |
| http://www.cdc.gov/ | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | |
| http://hlunix.ex.state.ut.us | Utah Department of Health website. Access to all programs and data collected by the Dept. of Health. | Physicians Health care professionals Consumers |
| www.cdc.gov/mmwr/ | The Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report contains weekly breaking healthcare news and recommendations. | Physicians Health care professionals Consumers |
| www.ahrq.gov | The Agency for Healthcare and Research and Quality (AHRQ) is a federal agency acting as a guideline clearing house, and research on healthcare quality. The web site includes consumer health information and grant opportunities. | Physicians Health care Consumers |
| www.medscape.com | Access to primary and specialty care news, practice issues, HIPAA, discussion groups. Free subscriptions to one or more of the Medscape family of weekly updates. Will also e-mail notices of newly published journal articles. | Physicians Health care professionals |
| www.kaisernetwork.org | A daily healthcare newsletter from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Free subscription available. | Health care Consumers |
| www.healthleaders.com | Several free electronic newsletters with health care news. You must log in to become a member; however, there is no charge. | Physicians Health care Consumers |
| http://www.uhin.com/clinical_exchange/index.htm | The Utah Health Information Network (UHIN) is a coalition of healthcare providers, payers, and other interested parties with a goal to standardize health data and initiate electronic commerce. UHIN is working to adapt these principles to clinical data. |
| www.lifeclinic.org | A consumer targeted health web site with health promotion and healthy lifestyle information. Also has tools for tracking health maintenance. With a free subscription, consumers can receive information/news about topics of their choosing. | Consumers |
| www.medlineplus.gov | A consumer-targeted web site by the National Institutes of Health and the US National Library of Medicine. Multimedia interactive information on a variety of medical topics. | Consumers |
