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External Links

This page provides links to several types of sites. Pages that fit in more than one category will be listed in each. 

VA Sites

Washington State sites

Government Sites CDC and health statistics

General Medical Institutions and Organizations

Epidemiology Information Sites

Distance Learning Epidemiology Course Sites

Evidence-Based Medicine Links

Reviews of the Medical Literature

Medical literature search engines

On-Line Journals


VA Sites


VA Home Page - Information about the Department of Veterans Affairs

Cooperative Studies Home Page

Durham Epidemiology Research and Information Center home page

Clinical Epidemiology Research Center (CERC) here at the West Haven VA Healthcare system home page

Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center home page

Rehabilitation Research and Development

Statistics on U.S. veterans - Demographic characteristics on the U.S. veteran population

VA Puget Sound Heath Care System - includes a profile and photo of Seattle ERIC's home institution.

VIReC - VIReC provides field researchers with consults, textual guides and referrals regarding the content, accessibility, and validity of VA and selected non-VA databases in support of their efforts to assess the health services provided to veterans.
This site also a large and valuable list of links to government sites.

Washington State sites

Washington State Home Page

King County Home Page

City of Seattle Home Page

University of Washington Home Page

Government Sites


Washington State Department of Health

Seattle-King County Department of Public Health

Centers for Disease Control - The website of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Free downloadable publications (e.g., Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - MMWR) and software (e.g., Epi Info).

National Center for Health Statistics - Access to national health statistics on the U.S. as a whole, not specific to veterans.

Directory of Other Sites for Health Statistics

National Library of Medicine Finding information on medical topics

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - The federal agency that administers the Medicare, Medicaid and Child Health Insurance Programs

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

National Cancer Institute: Division of  Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics

Institutions/Organizations

American College of Physicians

American Medical Association

WWW, Virtual Library of Medicine

International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories

Epidemiology Information Sites

World Wide Web Virtual Library - Epidemiology - Extensive site with links to schools of public health, major journals and professional societies, Internet discussion groups, and data sources.

University of Washington Department of Epidemiology - Information about epidemiologic research, teaching, and faculty at the University of Washington

Stanford Epidemiology

Bandolier's Links

Environmental Epidemiology

On-line epidemiology supercourse from the University of Pittsburgh

"Epidemiology for the Uninitiated" - A complete on-line epidemiology text

"Statistics at Square One" - A complete on-line statistics text

Evidence-Based Medicine Sites

Health Information Research Unit at McMaster University

Evidence-Based Medicine toolbox

Netting the Evidence A ScHARR Introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Internet

The Cochrane Collaboration

Reviews of the medical literature


ACP Journal Club

Journal Watch Online

Medical literature search engines:


Pub Med

NLM Gateway

On-Line Journals

Emerging Infectious Diseases - Tracking trends and analyzing new and reemerging infectious diseases around the world

Tables of Contents of Elsevier Journals

MEDLINE
- Journals With Links to Publisher Web Sites

Evidence-based Medicine Journal Subscription required

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