Links
This page contains links to related web sites that you may find useful. Try the following:
Consumer Resources
Established by the Commonwealth Government of Australia. This site provides users with a single entry point to quality health information. Information accessed through HealthInsite is sourced from providers of quality health information.
Healthfinder® is a database of government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet.
Consumers in Cochrane (CCnet) is the new Cochrane Consumer Network web-site. This site contains information about the Cochrane Collaboration, evidence-based practice, and how consumers can contribute to the Cochrane Collaboration.
Informed Health Online provides evidence-based information for consumers in both English and German and is produced by the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care.
Support Groups
Advice about patient support groups for specific conditions, compiled for the Australian Broadcasting Commission's Health Matters website.
Advice about finding a patient support group for a specific condition in Australia.
One place where you may find an international internet-based support group for the condition that interests you.
Medical Terminology
A free, useful, searchable database of medical terms translated into lay language. It provides definitions for complex words within definitions, so you can work down toward simpler building blocks of ideas until the definition is clear to you.
A resource with simple explanations of cause, diagnosis and treatment.
Evaluating Evidence
Simple advice about evaluating health information on the internet.
If you're interested in looking at resources with more information about evidence based practice that aren't geared specifically toward consumers, you'll find many here.
We welcome suggestions for new, high quality links. To make a suggestion, send an email message to the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (PEDro@george.org.au).
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