The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.
The mission of the CDC is to collaborate to create the expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their health – through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and preparedness for new health threats.
The Medical Heritage Library (MHL), a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries, promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. Our goal is to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and strengthen understanding of the world in which we live.
Certification in a nursing specialty demonstrates a commitment to advancing one’s knowledge and skillset. This site from Lippincott contains contact information to begin the certification process.
Trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish.
AHFS is published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists long recognized as an authority on educating patients about drug use and safety, and a founding member of the National Council on Patient Information and Education (NCPIE). Key features include: Drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers; Conforms to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Keystone Guidelines for the provision of useful prescription medicine information to consumers and the FDA's Guidance for Useful Written Consumer Medication Information; Includes How To monographs for administering different types of medications such as eye drops and inhalers; Identifies medications that have the potential for adverse events when used by elderly patients as recommended by a panel of nationally recognized experts (Beers Criteria). These criteria identify medications that should generally be avoided or that should be used with caution in older adults (65 years of age or older).
