Effective organization of medical information on treatment and diagnosis of pediatric health problems
The Harriet Lane WWW Links (formerly Pediatric Points of Interest) describes itself as an "edited collection of pediatric resources (6100 links) on the World Wide Web. Maintained and edited at the Johns Hopkins University, this site attempts to catalog, review and score (see scoring guidelines) existing links to pediatric information on the Internet." The search goes across information in various formats: indexes, full text journal articles, textbooks and reports. Scoring guidelines apply to layout, access, source and content. This is the information resource link provided by the American Academy of Pediatrics on their website.
GeneralPediatrics.com is a compilation of pediatric websites. Its goal is to "provide a starting point for entry into General Pediatrics places of enlightenment and education on the Internet." GeneralPediatrics.com "identifies high quality General Pediatrics World-Wide Web sites that can teach, illuminate, and inspire." The search requires selection from a number of different categories and then provides links to specific information sources on the web, e.g. MEDLINE, the MERCK Manual, etc.
Electronic access to many full text medical journals and textbooks is available only through fee-based services. Perhaps the most widely used of these in medical libraries is Ovid.
Ovid offers "pediatric packages" for license agreements. One is the Ovid Comprehensive Pediatrics Package.
The other is EMBASE-Pediatrics.
The first package is composed of full text journals, textbooks and manuals with searching via the Ovid platform. The second is a bibliographic file of journal titles and abstracts searchable via the SilverPlatter platform. Ovid has developed sophisticated searching mechanisms described at this link.
EMedicine.com is a compilation of review articles by nearly 10,000 physicians and contains practice guidelines for over 7000 diseases. The emphasis is on evidence-based content and it is updated every 24 hours. The pediatrics component is found at the URL above.
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