TOOLS & RESOURCES - Miscellaneous
Alliance of Community Health Plans
ACHP'S POSITION ON HEALTH CARE QUALITY 
Key Sources and Publications on Health Care Quality
ACHP Bulletin: ACHP monthly newsletter featuring news about its programs, policy advocacy and members.
American Heart Association
Get With The Guidelines(SM): Get With The Guidelines SM (GWTG) is the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's hospital-based program designed to ensure that patients are consistently treated and discharged according to evidence-based guidelines for coronary artery disease and stroke. The quality improvement program empowers healthcare teams to save lives and reduce healthcare costs through:
- Helping hospitals follow evidence-based guidelines and recommendations for treating coronary artery disease and stroke.
- Providing training and staffing recommendations so hospitals can create an infrastructure and multidisciplinary teams.
- Providing implementation tools, such as Web-based, real-time patient management tool that complies with ORYX, JCAHO, and NCQA requirements.
- Facilitating best practices discussion among participating hospitals.
- Providing customized patient education materials. Experience has shown that 80,000 lives could be saved annually if the coronary artery disease (GWTG-CAD) module along of Get With The Guidelines SM were implemented nationwide.
Centers for Disese Control and Prevention
Health Topics A to Z
Information on a variety of health topics.
HealthWeb
A tool to facilitate access to health-related resources on the Internet.
(A collaborative project of the Health sciences libraries of the Greater
Midwest Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine and those
of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation)
Jonhs Hopkins Hospital and Health System
InfoNet
InfoNet from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions offers an extensive list of advocacy and self-help organizations and Web sites on chronic diseases and aging that are searchable by condition.
Medical Library Association
Glossary of terms commonly used by health care professionals.
MLA User’s Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web
Guidelines on finding the highest quality health information on the Web as
well as examples of the best health Web sites.
National Health Information Center
Health Information Resource Database
This database includes 1,800 organizations and government offices that
provide health information upon request.
Toll-free Numbers for Health Information
Selected toll-free numbers for organizations that provide health-related information, education and support.
Healthfinder
Comprehensive, selective resource for health information on the Internet.
National Institute on Health
Health Information
Information on selected consumer health topics.
Men’s Health
Information on selected men’s health issues.
MEDLINEplus at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health (NLM)
MEDLINEplus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government, nonprofit and health-related organizations.
National Women’s Health Information Center
Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media
KidsHealth
Health information about children from before birth through adolescence. For children, teenagers and parents.
