Resources

Please send comments and suggestions for content to rche@purdue.edu.

External Publications

• Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership (2005)
  From the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine
  View (nap.edu)
• The Best Practice: How the New Quality Movement is Transforming Medicine (2008)
  By Charles Kenney
  View (Amazon.com)

Healthcare Information Basics

• The Basics of Using the Medical Literature – a brief guide to the literature of medicine.
• The "Amazing-ology Finder"
• Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations
  This is available through a Purdue Libraries subscription to StatRef! which also provides access to drug information and disease state resources.
• Medi-lexicon (formerly Pharma-lexicon)
  A dictionary of over 200,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations. Plus medical news and searches for the medical, pharmaceutical or healthcare professional.

General Health Resources

• Entrez, the Life Sciences Search Engine
  A new cross-searching search page from the National Center for Biomedical Information.
• PubMed
  A biomedical literature citations and abstracts from the National Library of Medicine
• JAMIA
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
• MedlinePlus
  Health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine.
• National Patient Safety Foundation
  Information on improving the safety of patients.
• Other Health-Related Databases
  Resources beyond MedlinePlus covering special health topics and collections.