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  • ÌýBioMed Central offers fast, efficient online publishing of research articles in all areas of biomedical research with full peer review and no barriers to access of any kind. Submission is online and authors retain copyright. All original articles are published in one of the BioMed Central journals (Biology and Medicine) as well as being posted without delay on PubMed Central and indexed in PubMed.Ìý
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  • : links from the US National Library of Medicine's Medline Plus.Ìý
  • ÌýIncludes information on Turner's Syndrome, Noonan Syndrome, and other disorders related to growth and development.Ìý
  • (Note that the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health also publishes information on growth reference charts for use in the UK.)Ìý
  • Clinical Trials Databases
  • Conference ProceedingsÌý
  • ÌýPreviously the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy or (CESDI)Ìý
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  • An online medical reference, with sections on paediatrics. Highlight any medical term, and a separate screen appears with a definition from the Merrian-Webster dictionary.and references to images etc.
  • Evidence Based Resources
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  • promoting free access to medical journals over the Internet.
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  • A digital library of high quality, peer reviewed general paediatric websites. Includes policy statements, clinical practice guidelines, consumer health information, CME courses, case studies, patient simulations and ebm resources.
  • The Global Child Health Society is a non-profit child health and rights advocacy organization, with headquarters in Vancouver, Canada and chapters in various regions in the world. It provides for the collection and sharing of essential information for the mobilization of individuals, agencies and organizations having concern for the health and welfare issues of the world's children. Includes links to and
  • GOSH 150 To mark the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Hospital for Sick Children Great Ormond Street (which occurred on 14th February 2002) to read an article on the anniversary published in The Guardian A select list of some useful government publications on health and healthcare.
  • Grey Literature
  • Growth Reference ChartsÌý The Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health publishes information on for use in the UK.Ìý
  • Guides and Leaflets
  • Guidelines websites
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  • General health site hosted by the US Government.
  • From this site, health and social care staff in the London Region can access a range of health information sites provided nationally, and by the NHS Library and Information Services in London.
  • Free news service which includes a section on paediatrics (and other specialties). (Free) registration required to.
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  • The Journal Impact Factors (otherwise known as the Journal Citation Reports) are on the Web. It is accessible on the ×î×¼µÄÁùºÏ²ÊÂÛ̳ network as part of the subscription.

  • JSTOR is a unique digital archive collection of core scholarly journals starting with the first issues (many of which date from the 1800s) and made available to participating UK higher education institutions via the World Wide Web.Ìý

  • The JDRF funds research to find a cure for type 1 (juvenile) diabetes and its complications.

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  • A government agency which is responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work, and are acceptably safe.
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  • The NHS Confederation is the only membership body for all NHS organisations. Its members include over 95% of NHS trusts, primary care trusts and health authorities in England and Wales; health boards and trusts in Scotland; and health and social services trusts and boards in Northern Ireland.

  • The NCB is a registered charity which promotes the interests and well-being of all children and young people across every aspect of their lives.

  • Aims to provide a support service to health authorities and hospital and community trusts who are faced with concerns over the performance of an individual doctor.

  • The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) seeks to assure that every individual is born healthy, is born wanted, and has the opportunity to fulfill his or her potential for a healthy and productive life unhampered by disease or disability. In pursuit of this mission, the NICHD conducts and supports laboratory, clinical, and epidemiological research on the reproductive, neurobiologic, developmental, and behavioral processes that determine and maintain the health of children, adults, families, and populations.
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Ìý Ìý ÌýImproving the safety and quality of care through reporting, analysing and learningÌý

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  • The website of the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD). Here you can find information on more than 6000 rare diseases, including current research, publications from scientific and medical journals, completed research, ongoing studies, and patient support groups.

  • An educational website of interest to junior doctors. It includes links to MCQs, details of revision courses, and summaries of medical news.
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  • From the Alberta Children's Hospital (Canada). Includes references to printed and online studies in pediatric emergency medicine.

  • Search the Popline database which provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature on population, family planning, and related health issues. Uses the National Library of Medicine's "Internet Grateful Med" search interface.Ìý

  • Free Medline on the Internet. There are two useful guides at:
    available in PDF or WordPerfect6 formats.Ìý
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  • The College website includes many useful links, including its Royal Charter and Newsletter.
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  • A useful set of links from the US National Library of Medicine's Medline Plus.

  • TRIP Database allows you to cross-search around 150 freely available online resources containing high-quality 'evidence-based' health information from around the world. Resources searchable via TRIP include The Cochrane Library, PubMed Clinical Queries, Clinical Evidence, BestBETs and journals such as Evidence-Based Medicine and Bandolier. Trip is freely available but users may set up a username and password to allow email alerts as new items are added to TRIP.
  • Tutorials to the library resources
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  • Data on hospital waiting lists.

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